Maximum Overdrive, The Dark Tower — have not. But what about the small screen? As with the film adaptations, attempts to bring King’s books to life on TV have had mixed results, and few have reached the heights of The Green Mile or Misery. But thanks to the longer running time afforded by a series, several of King’s more unwieldy novels have proved better suited to television than to the multiplex. “That is the great thing about TV,” King said, calling from his home in Bangor, Maine. “You can take these things as they are and expand more.” With a new adaptation of one of the author’s longest, most complex novels,