People will prefer one or another as situations and purposes vary. No matter how successful TV is, reading on-screen can never take the place of reading on the page. Though reading on-screen has the advantage of vivid participation, it is limited in expressing the original work's style, ideas, and charm of language. Reading on the page is the best way to understand a literary wok. Second, two points as concerning the relation between a TV play and a literary work.
TV derives much nourishment from literary masterpieces.
They enrich the cultural content of TV programming and raise aesthetic levels, as well as the language, of television. In turn, the successful adaptation of a novel leads to more people reading those books. The cultural fast food of TV plays whets the viewer's appetite for the nutrition in the original. It was reported that several editions of Outlaws on the Marsh sold out during the airing of the show. Bothe media profited financially.