A note on Salman Rushdie's new screenwriting project, Next People, a "sort of paranoid science fiction series" for Showtime (Shelf Awareness, March 14, 2011).
Citing series like Mad Men, the Sopranos and the Wire, the author told the Guardian that one of the major attractions of doing the series was that some TV series gives writers as much control over quality as they have writing a novel. By contrast, he said, "In America … the quality--or the writing quality--of movies has gone down the plughole."