{"id":128156,"date":"2020-01-17T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/17\/discworld-fans-are-right-to-be-nervous-about-the-bbcs-punk-rock-the-watch\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:37:58","slug":"discworld-fans-are-right-to-be-nervous-about-the-bbcs-punk-rock-the-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=128156","title":{"rendered":"Discworld fans are right to be nervous about the BBC&#039;s &#039;punk rock&#039; The Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Pratchett\u2019s books about Ankh-Morpork\u2019s City Watch have been adapted into a \u2018punk rock thriller\u2019 \u2013 and some are not happyWe Terry Pratchett fans have been lucky, in recent years. We were given Good Omens, which thanks to co-author Neil Gaiman\u2019s shepherding and incredible performances from David Tennant and Michael Sheen, was a joy to watch. And we were told that BBC America was developing The Watch, a series based on Pratchett\u2019s stories about Ankh-Morpork\u2019s City Watch. Yes, we were a little nervous to read that Pratchett\u2019s fierce, dark, sardonic stories were to become a \u201cstartlingly reimagined \u2026 punk rock thriller\u201d that was \u201cinspired by\u201d the books. But we stayed faithful, for it was promised that the show would \u201cstill cleav[e] to the humour, heart and ingenuity of Terry Pratchett\u2019s incomparably original work\u201d.But nerves were jangling even more fiercely on Friday as the first shots from the forthcoming show were shared by the studio. They \u2026 look kind of cyberpunky? Is that electricity? Where is their ARMOUR? Should we have been more wary about that \u201cinspired by\u201d? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2020\/jan\/17\/discworld-fans-are-right-to-be-nervous-about-the-bbcs-punk-rock-the-watch\" target=\"_blank\">Discworld fans are right to be nervous about the BBC&#039;s &#039;punk rock&#039; The Watch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Pratchett\u2019s books about Ankh-Morpork\u2019s City Watch have been adapted into a \u2018punk rock thriller\u2019 \u2013 and some are not happyWe Terry Pratchett fans have been lucky, in recent years. We were given Good Omens, which thanks to co-author Neil Gaiman\u2019s shepherding and incredible performances from David Tennant and Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}