Category talk:Based on Book

Transitivity

Does this category include series that aren't based directly on a book, but rather on a movie which was in turn based on a book? —Naddy 07:13, 2 September 2006 (EDT)

My best guess is probably. Blade: The Series is based on a movie which was based on a comic book and it is in both of those categories. --MateoP 09:16, 2 September 2006 (EDT)

It's sometimes really difficult to determine which elements are taken from which source unless you're super-familiar with all variations. Even then, there are some very grey areas. For instance, The Odd Couple has the characters of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison from the stage play and attempted to follow a very Neil Simon style of storytelling and dialogue. However, the movie is a close adaptation of the play, too, and the series used the movie's theme music, and it's highly likely there would never have been a series if the movie hadn't been such a hit. So is the series based on the stage play or the movie? I'd say both. So in other words, I'd say "Yeah." I grouped Gidget and M*A*S*H (both of which started as novels which were adapted into movies) under both "Based on Book" and "Based on Motion Picture." -- JCaesar^talk 16:19, 2 September 2006 (EDT)

Is this based on book?

The Path to 9/11, a miniseries that is based on information from sources such as the 9/11 Commission Report. If a show uses a book as a source for information, is that based on book? --MateoP 09:25, 2 September 2006 (EDT)

Documentaries are a bit grey, because they're based in fact, and most good historical documentaries (one would hope) did some research in one or more books. So in that sense, pretty much all factual documentaries are based on a book. Given that that's the case, I think the safest bet is to err on the side of the documentary's own credits. A lot of documentaries will say in the credits, "Based on the Book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (to use an example of a book I know was adapted into a TV documentary), and that's when it'd be appropriate to declare the documentary miniseries "Based on a Book." -- JCaesar^talk 16:23, 2 September 2006 (EDT)

It's not a documentary. --MateoP 16:27, 2 September 2006 (EDT)

OK. You can still apply everything I said to dramatizations, and my point stands. -- JCaesar^talk 18:25, 2 September 2006 (EDT)

No, it's not. It may have used book sources to support the events that occur in the series, but it was not specifically based on a book. This would fall under Based on True Story. --IndieRockLance 17:02, 2 September 2006 (EDT)