MyNetwork should adapt some REAL novels

Like Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (which was originally a
newspaper serial). Or Moll Flanders. Adapt some real classics for
their 65-episode-long telenovels (perhaps with BBC's assistance),
rather than this campy, largely-forgettable fluff.

Invid Fan...

But it's the cheap campy stuff that's been successful elsewhere, where
as the high class stuff never does well when PBS airs it.

Steven L....

MyNetwork was hoping that the Hispanic community that loves to watch
telenovelas on Univision and Telemundo would give MyNetwork's
telenovelas a try.

But so far, for whatever reason, they haven't.

As for your suggestion, notice how cable channels like A&E and Bravo
that originally used to show high-brow stuff have since given up on it,
due to low ratings. They now show more popular fare. Only PBS
continues to show high-brow stuff, which they can get away with because
they're not commercial TV.

If MyNetwork put on some worthy material, they might actually get some
critical-praise and viewers and survive to see year 2. At this point,
with only 0.7% of america watching, they look doomed. Although I
semi-enjoyed Desire, I'd think I'd really, really enjoy a good
novel-to-tv adaptation spread over 65 parts (basically one episode per
chapter).

Invid Fan...

I disagree, just on the general principle that few real novels would
fit the format well: you'd either have to pad them out or cut stuff.
Better to create new stories.
(I feel the same way about anime tv series that adapt comics)