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Up until recently, movies were the Tiffany jewel in the crown. But movie people think things are movies, and authors think things are movies. Let’s just do a Fifty Shades of Grey series. “I’m the guy who called up Universal and said, ‘I’ll get you three years on the air as a series. The novel, the first of a trilogy, traces the relationship between college graduate Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson, The Social Network) and wealthy. “If you read the book, this could only be a series,” he said of his new source material.

The subject came up when Albrecht was discussing Starz’s significantly less kinky romance novel adaption for Diana Gabaldon‘s Outlander. During Friday’s Starz panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, CEO Chris Albrecht said that he was willing to give the adaptation of EL James’ huge S&M best-seller a three-season commitment. Well, it probably would never have happened, but the offer was on the table. Fifty Shades of Grey was almost a TV series.