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Just noticed that BBC is developing a TV series called The Watch, based on the Discworld books.
Also a mini-series based on Good Omens.
Actually, last I heard, The Watch is brand new content. OK so we know the city and the names of some of the characters, but it's new adventures.
Good Omens I'll admit I'm a bit 'meh' about but generally speaking I've no objection to adapting books if done justice.
Cheers
Mark
This is relevant to my interests.
Any idea who's playing Vimes and Vetinari?
I've heard conflicting reports on the adaptation/new stuff approach. The earliest reports were that the series would start with 3 or 4 episodes adapting GUARDS! GUARDS! and then have some new storylines, then an adaptation of MEN AT ARMS, then some new stuff, then FEET OF CLAY and basically continue like that across several seasons until the books were out of the way and they'd be onto all-new material (this also makes sense as in British TV it's common for actors to get bored a lot faster than in the USA, so by 3-4 seasons in we'd likely be seeing the guy playing Vimes wanting to leave or reduce his appearances, which would match Vimes's day-to-day role in the Watch gradually lessening over the course of the books).
More recently however they seem to be suggesting it'll all be 100% new material from the off, so it seems this is still being decided.
Apparently there's been some 'huge' casting scoops, but they're not allowed to announce them yet.
Rhianna Pratchett (Terry's daughter and a noted writer of computer games) is on board to write and produce as well.
The made for TV movies they did were rather good. I'd like to see this TV show
The made for TV movies they did were rather good. I'd like to see this TV showThey were a pale, pathetic imitation of fine novels. They lacked the rhythm, melody, invention, hunour and pathos of the original works. Pratchett is far more a wordsmith than a plotter.
Well, "Going Postal", the most recent one, was pretty good, and "Hogfather" had some inspired casting.
The Hogfather movie was damn good. Haven't seen Going Postal but considering how much I enjoyed the book I may have to watch it.
The adaptation of Colour of Magic though? Hoo boy that was bad. Though the first two were always meh at best in my opinion.
These series' sound interesting too though.
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And it's official, 6 years later.
8 hour long episodes, and not much more information other than a list of characters who will be included (but certainly not all of them). Fingers crossed that CMOT Dibbler will be in it.
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If there is no CMOT Dibbler in it, then clearly BBC is doing it wrong.
Well... The Patrician has been cast, along with several others
I'll admit Anna Chancellor is not the first person to pop into my head for the part but then mentally I've always looked to Kidby's art for the characters.
Still, more than willing to see how she handles the part.
I don't suppose you could supply us with a link, Grey?
Cool. I'm on board. Thanks Grey!
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Ugh, looks like they're changing CMOT Dibbler with "Ruth Madeley will play the wiry Throat, the city’s best snitch, with a gang of freelance henchmen at her beck and call."
I don't really care one way or another about gender swapping any of the roles, but the character Throat doesn't sound at all like CMOT, but I can't imaging they'll have a character named Throat in addition to CMOT.
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Yeah Joel, that does sound like they're doing a dis-service to CMOT who I always enjoyed. Male, female, the point of CMOT is to be the used car salesman of the Disc, not some snitch.
I wonder -- Could this series be meant as a sequel to the Watch novels, with many of the characters being replaced by the next generation? For example, Throat could be the daughter of CMOT Dibbler, while Vetinari is the Patrician's daughter (or at least claimed to be so that she could seize his position after his death or disappearance).
We'll have to see David...but I doubt it...
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Well that's that then.
They released a bunch of photos from the set.
I don't know what this show is but it's not the Discworld
It's some Dystopian Steampunk post-apocalypse setting
I don't mind the various casting decisions, as long as the core parts of the characters are intact, gender and race are kind of irrleivant
but they can't even get the setting right.
So I'm out
I have no idea what they are making here but it's not what I was hoping to watch.
Please be good. Please be good. Please be good...
Please be good. Please be good. Please be good...
They gave Carrot's backstory to Cherry Littlebottom
Please be good. Please be good. Please be good...
Seeing Terry Pratchett's daughter and his production partner both pouring scorn on the adaptation is not really a good sign.
One of my TV industry contacts also let me know he read the script for the first episode last year and it was easily one of the worst things he'd ever read. He wasn't hopeful they were going to rewrite it.
So that shoots down any chance I want to see it...
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It's being described as a "Punk Rock Thriller"
???
Punk?
Rock?
Thriller?
Maybe if they did it using Soul Music maybe...
Please be good. Please be good. Please be good...They gave Carrot's backstory to Cherry Littlebottom
How could they do that? It wouldn't make any sense at all for her to be a human raised by dwarves.
Please be good. Please be good. Please be good...They gave Carrot's backstory to Cherry LittlebottomHow could they do that? It wouldn't make any sense at all for her to be a human raised by dwarves.
Based on what I've read this isn't the case. Carrot is still Carrot, a human raised by dwarves. Cheery is now a human, though.
Lady Ramkin is now some kind of vigilante.
The real crime, to me, is the absence of Colon and Nobby. How can it be the watch without them?
The more I read about it the less confidence I have that it will be worth a damn.