I agree completely. The TV series format would be far better than a movie for this series (the film was supposed to skip the first book entirely because it wouldn't work in a movie format, for example), but most networks would screw it up. A Netflix series would probably be the way to go, but something like HBO would also work.

I've often wished that raising enough money to buy the SciFi network was a feasible goal. The current management doesn't seem to like Sci Fi very much, and putting somebody in charge that was in it for love of the genre would be a great improvement.