I N E T O S C R E E N ZINE TO SCREEN

WHILE THE MAJORITY OF TV SERIES BASED ON EXISTING IP COME FROM THE LITERARY WORLD , there is an increasing trend for magazine articles to inspire longform storytelling. Famously, Sex & the City was based on Candace Bushnell’s newspaper columns, while “polyamorous romantic comedy” You Me Her was inspired by a Playboy article. Net fl ix’s recent space drama Away was loosely based on an Esquire article, and a Buzzfeed long read led to true crime drama The Act . Now three series released this year have cemented magazine articles as the new go-to source for TV drama. Shonda Rhimes’ Net fl ix series Inventing Anna was inspired by a 2018 New York Magazine article, while Hulu’s The Girl From Plainville is based on an Esquire article about a real-life homicide trial. Then there’s another Hulu series, Pam & Tommy (pictured), which is based on a 2014 Rolling Stone piece about the man responsible for stealing and distributing the celebrity couple’s now-infamous sex tape.