Virtually all Dickens work was "written in fixed size chunks on rather tight deadlines for regular publication in newspapers, periodicals".

It's not a bad way of writing either, as demonstrated in modern times by authors such as Armistead Maupin and Alexander McCall Smith.

I think "tight fast moving 'movie-like' gripping ('modern') narrative" is often a disastrous recipe for novels. As indeed it can be for movies.