"Nice work" was adapted for TV by the BBC in 1989 with Hayden Gwynne and Warren Clark beautifully cast in the leading roles.
The Beeb did a version of "the history man" by Malcolm Bradbury which I think was OK, but a bit less successful. They're somewhat contemporary novels about academia. They also did several of the Tom Sharpe novels but they're generally more boisterous, picaresque stories.