THE scenes depicting his sickness are as difficult to watch as those involving Emma Thompson as a professor dying of cancer in the HBO adaptation of "Wit."

Simon Horsford previews Too Big to Fail (Sky Atlantic), an HBO adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin's bestseller about the US 2008 financial crisis.

On this midsummer morning, he is back from Italy, taking a break from an HBO adaptation of William Trevor's novel "My House in Umbria," which will be shown early next year.

It is easy to see why Johnson's book has become a highly successful TV show, and not just because this paperback edition comes with characters of the HBO adaptation on the front cover.

Among their many joint projects are an Internet screenplay contest and an HBO adaptation of Howard Zinn's contrarian book "A People's History of the United States."

An expanded HBO adaptation of the play, filmed in Laramie and Denver, has a name cast of 20.

Strong is best known for his role as Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and wrote the screenplays for Recount and the HBO adaptation of Game Change.

In 2011, it was announced that Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest will star in the HBO adaptation.

The HBO adaptation was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards, and won in four categories.

God knows what the HBO adaptation of the books will be like though.