This week ABC is adapting another Stephen King novel as a made-for-TV movie.  Tuesday night it's Desperation.  Fun novel, part of a pair he made to say good-bye to alter-ego Richard Bachman. Desperation is the better of the two, but if you've got the time The Regulators is a good read too.

Anyway, we're passing it along to you as a recommendation. Most King novels don't do well in translation, mostly because producers fuck up the endings, changing them to make them happier, or happy, or simply to have a couple more people survive.  We actually think that Desperation may be the victim of similar tampering for TV, but we hold out hope.

Kinda ironic that.