Fiction Adaptation Unit- Choosing an essay question and Investigating "The Shining" Television Series.

I have recently decided to choose question 1/3 to answer for my Fiction Adaptation essay. This question is:
Discuss the view that "with a successful adaptation the original work is transformed into something new and different, although retaining many traces of what it was formerly" with reference to at least one text adapted for broadcast on television.
The reason I have chosen this question to answer is it gives me a lot of opportunity when it comes to the content I can have in my essay. For example, the statement which is made in the question is something that is subjective, and therefore I can investigate and find adaptations that are to the contrary of that statement.
I could find an adaptation that has been successful despite being very similar to it's original writings. Basically, I could argue with the statement.
I am confident in choosing this question, as it seems to be very much a discussion question as opposed to choosing a particular viewpoint and defending it. Therefore, I believe I will use "The Shining" (discussed in a previous blog) to both argue and defend this statement.

In regards to "The Shining", I noticed that the question I have chosen shows that the adaptation I choose must have been adapted for television. Despite the 1980s Shining movie was something I previously suggested in my blog, I have since decided to also investigate whether or not a television adaptation has been made. And I have found that there is indeed one.

After a quick google search, I came across an IMDB page for a 1997 television series based on the Shining book by Stephen King.

I was surprised to find that on the IMDB page, this particular adaptation of the shining has received quite a low rating (6.1/10), whilst Stanley Kubrick's 1980s adaptation has a rating of 8.5/10.
A good point I could bring up in my essay is that despite the television adaptation having a good 17 years of technological advances and potential story development, it isn't seen as being as good as the movie version, or indeed the book.
Some areas I could investigate are:

• Is the Shining better received as a movie than a television series?
• What made the movie better?
• Does the movie or the series follow Stephen King's book closer?
• Which does Stephen King himself prefer out of the movie and series?
• How different are the series and movie to the book?

I am currently awaiting my copy of the Shining book to arrive in the mail, but in the meantime I have the DVD of the Shining and I can find the series online probably. I will continue my research into these pieces of film while I wait for the book to arrive.