Whether The Watch ends up being the absolute disaster many are predicting, and whether Narrativia ends up with forty one novels’ worth of TV remains to be seen. The implication seems to be that it will be all of them, which is an absolutely enormous undertaking on a scale that I can’t even begin to imagine, especially for TV. There’s forty one novels there to work with and we haven’t heard which ones will be getting the treatment. Those versions will be watched over by Rob Wilkins, Sir Terry’s faithful right hand man, and Rhianna Pratchett, his daughter. The other news at the end of April about Sir Terry’s company, Narrativia, partnering with another company to produce their own adaptations, faithful to his books, has been more welcome. I’ll probably be looking back at this in a year and laughing at my misplaced optimism. Discworld is beloved for a reason, and that reason isn’t steampunk. I even quite like the steampunk look of it, although that wasn’t an opinion I shared at the time – most fans seemed determined to hate it. The rest of the cast looked great, with a healthy batch of relative unknowns who I hoped would bring something fresh to their roles.
But there was a lot about it that initially excited me. I’ll admit that I was surprised that the production seems to have taken a different direction than what I would expect.
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Although fans were originally excited for The Watch, the news that the series would be a steampunkish adaptation only ‘based on’ the novels has made a lot of people nervous. The Discworld clacks have been buzzing this year, firstly due to the release of images of the new BBC America The Watch series and then more recently as it was announced that the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s own production company would be adapting his novels for TV.
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