BBC adapting Terry Pratchett’s iconic Discworld books for six-part TV series(theverge.com)
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BBC adapting Terry Pratchett’s iconic Discworld books for six-part TV series
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/1/17066844/terry-pratchett-discworld-books-tv-adapation-the-watch
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Hire the people who worked on The Frankenstein Chronicles. They really did a great job on getting the dirty London/Ankh Morpork right.
Regardless I'm skeptical if they can pull Discworld off. Probably a good idea to start with a Vimes mystery if the casting is good.
Regardless I'm skeptical if they can pull Discworld off. Probably a good idea to start with a Vimes mystery if the casting is good.
Sky's The Colour of Magic (really The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic) wasn't bad iirc.
Six episodes for the entire Discworld? I fear the worst.
No, just the guards series and it sounds like not even adaptions of existing stories but rather ones based upon the watch in general. If the BBC pulls off another Sherlock and manage to get a decent writer then I think it could be great, but if they do a repeat of the mediocre adaptions done by Sky a few years back then it will be a sad coda on the inability of studios to do Pratchett well...
Not the entire series. Terry Pratchett described it as, "CSI: Ankh-Morpork."[1]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watch_(TV_series)
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watch_(TV_series)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k0v6
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007jmk0