This is not a Discworld adaptation you’ve seen before.
BBC’s newest attempt
to adapt Terry Pratchett’s seminal fantasy series is The Watch, a modernized, slickly stylish take on Pratchett’s
City Watch, a subsection of the Discworld universe
influenced by noir, cynicism, and procedurals. In short: these misfits are
trying to keep the city safe. And they’re going to have a hard time doing it
and staying on the right side of morality in the process. In a new photo, the
stars gather, giving us our best look yet at just what the show is going to
look like.
Lady Ramkin. Captain Vimes. Cheery. Angua. Detritus. Carrot. Meet The City Watch, an unlikely group of misfits who find the guts to save the world.#TheWatch is a new original series from @BBCAMERICA, @bbcstudios, and Showrunner @MrSimonAllen. #CTAM20 https://t.co/fE257FBQQ0 pic.twitter.com/76UukNI4Ds
— BBC America (@BBCAMERICA) August 7, 2020
This is not how I
pictured them in the books, but I can’t say I hate it. Meet the whole crew:
Lady Ramkin, Captain Vimes, Cheery, Angua, Detritus, Carrot. I’m interested in
what the show’s version of Death is going to look like. Hopefully just a creepy
cloak; you can’t really beat a creepy personified cloak.
https://gizmodo.com/our-first-look-at-the-discworld-tv-show-is-not-what-you-1841061466
Whether you’re a Discworld-loving
skeptic or intrigued by what you see, The
Watch is coming, starring Richard Dormer and Lara Rossi, in January
2021.
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