Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
18-03-2011, 19:58
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Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Being Adapted To Crime-Of-The-Week Mystery TV Series
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By Brendon Connelly on March 14:
Ever wished that CSI had a bit more magic, a bit less pseudo-science and was set on a flat disc-shaped world balanced on the back of four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle? Me too! And it looks like we’re going to get at least two of our wishes to come sort-of-true!
Prime Focus Productions, the people behind the upcoming Good Omens TV series and the three existing Discworld miniseries, have commenced development on a new, ongoing show. This one will revolved around the City Watch police force of Terry Pratchett‘s vibrant fantasy city, Ankh-Morpork. It’s an amazing location, as vividly described in the fantasist-satirist’s series of 38-going-on-39 Discworld novels.
As with Good Omens, Terry Jones and Gavin Scott have been called in to work on the scripts, and ccording to the press release, they’ll be plotting:
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…a ‘crime of the week’ episodic storyline. As each weekly adventure unfolds, viewers will be taken on a ride through Pratchett’s genius imagination, with the author overseeing the creation of the series, where wild and exciting encounters with werewolves, dragons, dwarfs, trolls and golems and the classic heroes and villains, are an everyday occurrence…and where many of these characters even make outstanding crime fighters!
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There’s been early interest from broadcasters around the world and, with luck and following wind, we could be seeing this on screens before too, too long. It might be a hard one to pull off, but there’s certainly a good sized fan base in place already, and pretty much anything like a police procedural seems to have a shot at ratings glory, so here’s hoping.
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Two thoughts:
- A City Watch series?! YAY! 
- Another mini, this time based upon Good Omens?! Awesome!
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'Good Omens' TV series in development?
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Originally Posted by DigitalSpy
Tuesday, February 8 2011, 14:53 GMT
By Morgan Jeffery, TV Reporter
Fantasy novel Good Omens is reportedly being adapted for television as a four-part series.
The 1990 book, co-written by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, focuses on the attempts of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to avert the end of the world following the birth of Satan's son.
Pratchett recently confirmed that a television adaptation is in development but revealed no further details, according to SFX.
Fan blog Terry Jones Online also reports that Monty Python star Jones and Small Soldiers scribe Gavin Scott are "in talks" to write the series.
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Re: Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
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18-03-2011, 20:33
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18-03-2011, 20:54
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Re: Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
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Department 13 with David Jason should be good ,guaranteed hit with him in it
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18-03-2011, 21:00
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Re: Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
I guess this will be on Sky Atlantic...
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19-03-2011, 16:43
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Re: Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
Sky One makes more sense to me.
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19-03-2011, 20:00
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Re: Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
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Sky One makes more sense to me.
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Why?Surely they want to attract more people to the flagship channel?
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19-03-2011, 20:23
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Re: Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
TP adaptations don't really fit in with the majority of the content on Atlantic.
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19-03-2011, 20:29
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Re: Ankh-Morpork City Watch... The Series! Oh, & a Good Omens mini-series!
Isn't Atlantic just for imports?
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