I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.
HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.