So I'm starting into Book 7 during my reread...

While Lord of Chaos felt like we had included a lot of detail and space to move slowly the plot points it had, the start of A Crown of Swords is even more so. There are many fans that refer to "The Slog" as books 8-10, but I can already feel in Book 7 Jordan really felt like he could get away with an enormous volume of descriptive literature that isn't really advancing anything. It's detailed and comprehensive in taking what I might perceive to be a very small window of time and making it last multiple chapters.

The aftermath of Dumai Wells takes the better part of the first 100 pages (including the prologue) of the book. Frankly given the pace at which the first 4 to 5 books moved its practically glacial. I can already see that when I look at how you would want to arrange this into a TV show, we are going to be cutting or seriously shrinking the material a lot for this section. 

This leads me to think that realistically my total season volume is going to be 8 or 9 total seasons. There will probably be an expansion past the 8 episode total I've hit for the first 3, I think the 4th season is likely to encroach on 10 episodes, but from there I will be combining multiple books into a season. The Fires of Heaven and Lord of Chaos while I had originally thought they would be separated or a finale would adjust how you combine that material, I feel like those 2 being the first combined season is what I will aim for. 

7-10 may very well become 1 longer season of material. While the last books are huge, and still deeply descriptive they are also a lot more condensed in terms of characters and plot arcs which I think will help with figuring pacing it as a show. 

I think that what is mostly likely to happen is I will be able to put together the first 5 seasons of material from the first 6 books, and then there may be a good gap between when I complete that part and when I tackle the second half of the series. There will be a lot to piece together across multiple books from 7-10 which will be the most taxing part and will require me to finish reading all of them before I can start breaking them out. It is almost startling how you notice things slowing down in LoC then you start CoS and suddenly it's really noticeable how much slower the story is about to get. Reading the jacket covers even seems to show that plots which would have been resolved in a book have been given multi book arcs as the story has gotten fractured enough with the characters to "need" that spread out. I really think trying to adapt it into TV a lot of streamlining of this middle arc is going to be necessary. I suspect you will either start to see me putting far more chapters together into each episode as each chapter has less advancement material in it, or I may just begin excising chapters with limited narrative value.

Tentatively this is how I see myself arranging the materials now that I'm about halfway through.

Season 1 - Eye of the World
Season 2 - The Great Hunt
Season 3 - The Dragon Reborn
Season 4 - The Shadow Rising
Season 5 - Fires of Heaven & Lord of Chaos
Season 6 - Crown of Swords + Path of Daggers + Winters Heart + Crossroads of Twilight
Season 7 - Knife of Dreams & The Gathering Storm
Season 8 - Towers of Midnight & A Memory of Light

Potentially Season 6 might get split depending on how much of that run I think should be included, but the slog is all concurrent story arcs that need some shortening and simplification. We have a lot of great stuff early on and as we progress is where I plan on doing the condensing. I think there is plenty of material in the first 4 books to each warrant their own season before we start condensing and combining.