Terry Pratchett's THe Watch

[Phaezen]

Seems Terry Pratchett is working on a crime investigation series based around Ankh-Morpork's city watch.

Here is a video of a meeting of the production team

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKtfgf1TVQg"]YouTube - Terry Pratchett'€™s The Watch[/ame]

In the meeting reference is also made of a tv adaptation of "Good Omens"

Colour me excited on both snippets of information

 

[Mark CMG]

Colour me excited on both snippets of information

No doubt, David. Thanks!

 

[MarkB]

That's excellent news, and I hope the series comes to fruition. I always thought the City Watch novels were the most apt for adaptation to other media - aside from being probably the longest-running novel-thread in the Discworld series, they're an ideal setting for hanging new plots onto.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Definitely worth a cautious anticipatory "Yay."




Yay!

 

[JustKim]

I'm a great fan of Terry Pratchett, and I was thrilled by the news, but the truth is that the television specials have been consistently underwhelming. It's not the acting or the production values or the medium necessarily, it's the fact that these stories were not written for television and much of what makes them so funny occurs in the narrative. They seem to lovingly include every detail except for the humor. The more faithful the story is to the book, the more muted the humor becomes, until I only recognize something as a joke because I first read it in print.

But, since these are new stories, maybe they can make better use of Pratchett's setting and characters. I'm very hopeful. Slightly less hopeful about Good Omens, but you can bet I'll be watching it anyway!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Seriously? It is not 1st of April yet? That sounds pretty awesome.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

By complete chance I saw the Hogfather miniseries was in Netflix. I didn't know any Discworld was done up for TV for cinema. I never read the book, but the production of Hogfather was great and it felt like it fit the world of the books I had read.

The night watch characters make an appearance in the Hogfather miniseries, but I wouldn't complain if they make them a bit more, um, attractive for this coming series.

 

[Mark CMG]

I've enjoyed Hogfather and Going Postal but haven't seen the other non-text efforts yet. I'm looking forward to anything they do or have done, since I've enjoyed all of the Pratchett books I have read. I would prefer live action over animated but either will do.