Katims gets these adaptation jobs because he’s good at them. And when “FNL” ended, Katims transitioned to “Parenthood,” a very loose adaptation of the 1989 Ron Howard movie, which had already been attempted as a TV series (with a young Leonardo DiCaprio) in the early ’90s.Īnd now he’s the man behind “About a Boy,” a half-hour comedy series based on both the Nick Hornby novel and the 2002 film with Hugh Grant, which will get a sneak preview after NBC’s Olympic coverage on Saturday night at 11 before transitioning into a Tuesday at 9 p.m. Though he didn’t come on board with “Friday Night Lights” until after the pilot was made, he had to maintain the tone of Peter Berg’s adaptation of his own film, which was an adaptation of a book. He developed the WB’s “Roswell,” based on a popular series of YA novels about human/alien romance. When Jason Katims was a struggling playwright in New York, or even in his early days apprenticing under Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskowitz on emotionally precise dramas like “My So-Called Life” and “Relativity,” I doubt he imagined that one day, he would become the TV business’s go-to man for adapting books and movies to television.
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