I think Prelude to Foundation would work on TV, and I'm slightly surprised they didn't attempt that first, cos presumably you either do it now or never. But tha

I think Prelude to Foundation would work on TV, and I'm slightly surprised they didn't attempt that first, cos presumably you either do it now or never. But that probably would have been a weird thing for fans of the original book. You're right though, Foundation has an odd structure that doesn't at all match modern prestige TV templates, you'd do better with a sort of anthology series of some sort.