Forever Novel V Forever TV Show

How does that work?  It sure as fuck sounds like the tee vee show is a rippy rip-off of at least chunky chunks of the book.  Now, I read Pete Hamill's book, and I read in a library, so I have an affection for it greater than it deserves.  Hamill is a leprechaun mascot of New York's self-styled soul, but his book is pretty awful in a well-intentioned, silly manner.  Regardless, he has been robbed by the fucking Mouse, and didn't deserve it no matter how bad the book.  This is the second time, too; that stupid Jaime Lannister guy's New Amsterdam was another shitty rip-off tee vee show way suckier than the Hamill's book.