Carl Hiaasen on "Bad Monkey" becoming a TV series

Asked to describe himself – A crank? A crusader? – novelist Carl Hiaasen replied, "Cranky? Maybe not a crank. No, I think when you write satire, which is what I do, satire always comes from a place of anger, a sense of injustice about things. Satire has a target."

The cranky, crusading Carl Hiaasen has channeled that anger into more than 30 books. And now, one of his snarkiest satires, his 2013 novel "Bad Monkey," has been turned into a series on Apple TV+

"Sunday Morning" caught up with the 71-year-old Hiaasen in the Florida Keys, where "Bad Monkey" was being filmed. "It's a little surreal," he said on location, " 'cause you're sitting in a room all by yourself and write it, alone. And you come here and they have, like, 105 people on the set."