The huge amount of Electric lamps here is off-putting for a world which doesn't have electricity in the books.Ī plastic zip on Angua's jacket is also out of place for those who expect to see the Discworld from the books.Ĭarcer is here with what appears to be a couple of Deep Down Grags, although our Whoever it is they are dressed much more like Carcer is in the next image. Some people have suggested that it is Death in the background having a curry but We like this iteration of the watch badge a lotīut it should have numbers visible. No number on Vimes' badge and Angua's badge is not quite visibleĮnough to be able to tell if its identical to his or not. There is so much going on in this image of Sam Vimes and Angua. What we do love though is the poster and the sense of disarray to the place though. To be a white plastic kettle in the background and rubber soled boots, it is a step further away from the That coupled with the electric fans, lights and what seems In the book version of the City Watch, piercings on police officers are not the most sensible thing,Įspecially on a werewolf, and the plastic framed glasses around Cheery's neck don't fit in theĬity Watch world the book readers know and love. In this image of Angua and Cheery, we can visibly see some things that are not around The sets look like they came straight from the set of Blade Runner 2049 with the We know The Watch is Inspired by not Based on as twitter account informed the world back in Nov 2019 so we don't expect direct adaptations (for clarity we refer to the TV series as The Watch - and the book series as City Watch) Several of Terry Pratchett's best-loved creations from his Discworld novels on a riotous Uniquely anarchic and thrillingly entertaining, the character-driven drama follows Series that follows a group of misfit cops as they rise up from decades of helplessness to save their Set in a fictional city where crime has been legalized, The Watch is a genre-busting When? A (not so) Brief Public History of The Watch development.Ģ020: JanFirst look images get released with this new press release (see below) What we have tried to do here is to give a very factual timeline and analysis of Huh?

In South Africa) what little is known is causing a huge amount of people to apportion blame onto Huge expectations that it will be as funny if not funnier than its origins and faithful to the sourceĪs very little is in the public eye about the series (which is currently being filmed

It was time for a truthful article about The Watch series and how it came into being what it isįor a series that had its roots in a very well established book series, there are Many different things being said about the various TV adaptations of Terry Pratchett's works that I felt Terry Pratchett said A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots onĭiscworld Monthly has always been proud to tell the fans The Truth and there are so Written and researched by Rachel Anthony-Rowlands

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