{"id":7818,"date":"2017-05-31T10:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/im-global-to-adapt-the-happiness-machine-as-sci-fi-series\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:04:34","slug":"im-global-to-adapt-the-happiness-machine-as-sci-fi-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/im-global-to-adapt-the-happiness-machine-as-sci-fi-series\/","title":{"rendered":"IM Global to Adapt The Happiness Machine as Sci-Fi Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IM Global Television has optioned the rights to Katie Williams\u2019 upcoming science-fiction novel <em>The Happiness Machine<\/em>, which will be adapted for the small screen by Patrick Tobin.<\/p>\n<p>The story is set in a world where a technology has been created that can determine, with nearly perfect accuracy, what someone needs to do to be happy. The device reads a person\u2019s DNA and gives them a \u201ccontentment plan\u201d with recommendations that range from the mundane to the severe and the bizarre. <em>The Happiness Machine<\/em> explores how the lives of a number of characters are affected by this new science in their search for contentment.<\/p>\n<p>IM Global Television&#8217;s president, Mark Stern, said: \u201cKatie Williams\u2019 book is a quietly intense and emotional page-turner which explores, with even-handed aplomb, the complexities of our search for contentment and our twisted relationship with the technologies that serve us and that we serve. 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