Editing This American Life (section)

===Television===
{{Main|This American Life (TV series)}}
Discussions of a television adaptation of ''TAL'' date back to at least 1999.<ref name="slate">{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/id/29923/entry/29924|title=A Weeklong Electronic Journal|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|author=[[Ira Glass|Glass, Ira]]|date=June 1999|access-date=March 3, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070125233247/http://www.slate.com/id/29923/entry/29924/|archive-date=January 25, 2007}}</ref> However, the show's creative team was unsure of what the show would "look like" and, with so much money on the line, turned down offers.<ref name="Benson">{{cite journal |last1=Benson |first1=Heidi |title=Storytelling's new frontier / Ira Glass' quirky, smart radio show has sent ripples across the airwaves. Now it's coming to television. |journal=SFGate |date=March 21, 2007 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Storytelling-s-new-frontier-Ira-Glass-quirky-2608792.php |access-date=April 9, 2019}}</ref> In January 2006, [[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]] announced it had [[green-light|greenlit]] six episodes of a new series based on ''TAL''.<ref name="sho">{{cite press release|url=http://www.sho.com/site/announcements/060120amlife.do|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202121558/http://www.sho.com/site/announcements/060120amlife.do|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 2, 2013|title=Showtime Greenlights TV Adaptation of ''This American Life'' |publisher=[[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]] |date=January 19, 2006|access-date=March 3, 2007}}</ref> The announcement noted that each half-hour episode would "be hosted by Ira Glass and [...] explore a single theme or topic through the unique juxtaposition of first-person storytelling and whimsical narrative."<ref name="sho" />

For budgetary reasons, Glass and four of the radio show's producers left Chicago for New York City, where Showtime is headquartered.<ref name="nymag">{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/16762/|title=A Chicago Radio Hit Moves to New York, and TV|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|author=Ladd, Chris|date=May 1, 2006|access-date=March 3, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304110025/http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/16762/|archive-date=March 4, 2007}}</ref> In January 2007, it was announced that Glass had completed production on the show's first season, with the first episode set to premiere on March 22. Originally the series had a contract for a total of 30 shows over the four years,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2006/060203_1.html|title=Going Coastal|publisher=Chicago Reader|author=Miner, Michael|date=February 3, 2006|access-date=March 3, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070305211740/http://www.chicagoreader.com/hottype/2006/060203_1.html|archive-date=March 5, 2007}}</ref> but after two seasons Glass announced that he and the other creators of the show had "asked to be taken off TV", largely in part to the difficult schedule required to produce a television program.<ref name="wbez">[[WBEZ]] official blog: "[http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=6109 Exclusive: Ira Glass dishes on end of 'TAL' TV. Will he return to Chicago?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923152357/http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=6109 |date=September 23, 2009 }}"</ref> He went on to state that the show is officially "on hiatus", but would like to do a television special at some point in the future.<ref name="wbez" />

The episode "The Anatomy of Doubt" based on reporting by [[ProPublica]] and [[The Marshall Project]] was adapted into the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Unbelievable (miniseries)|Unbelievable]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/netflix-unveils-trailer-for-unbelievable-a-limited-ser-1836491788|title=Netflix unveils trailer for Unbelievable, a limited series based on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting |last1=Colburn|first1=Randall|publisher=AV Club|date=July 18, 2019}}</ref>