Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Being Adapted To Crime-Of-The-Week Mystery TV Series - CSI: Ankh Morpork,

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Being Adapted To Crime-Of-The-Week Mystery TV Series Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors:

"Terry commonly refers to the City Watch police force series as “the jewels in the Discworld Crown.” These richly developed and highly compelling characters will feature in 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!"

a) I'm ambivalent about the "CSI: Discworld" title; though the press release does not actually specify the title of the new series. Of course the title should be "CSI: Ankh Morpork".
b) I'm also ambivalent about the series using all new stories and not adapting the classics Night Watch and Guards! Guards!. If Pratchett is actively involved in the "overseeing" then we may avoid a loose adaptation of Barney Miller with funny costumes.

The Wertzone: A DISCWORLD City Watch TV series in the works

The Wertzone: A DISCWORLD City Watch TV series in the works:

"Terry Pratchett has signed a deal with Prime Focus Productions to bring the 'City Watch' subset of his Discworld novels to television. The deal will allow for an ongoing TV series featuring new adventures and episodes based on the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, commanded by Sam Vimes and made up of a mixed group of humans, trolls, werewolves, vampires, zombies, golems and dwarfs. Exactly how this will work - whether they'll start with an adaptation of Guards! Guards! or a new introduction - is unclear at present."

This can be real good or horrible, a good cast and "mature" writing and this can be a fantastic series with lots of legs (no pun intended). I think it will all depend on how greasy they make Nobby Nobbs.

In more good news, work is progressing on the SKY adaptation of Pratchett's Unseen Academicals. And the next Discworld book (Snuff) is coming in October.

Ahhh. I was looking for a reason to live.

Terry Pratchett to Collaborate with Stephen Baxter on New Novels

Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter will join forces to finish a novel that Pratchett left on the shelf 25 years ago. The Long Earth story line of parallel universes will come out as two books.

By the way, if you are enjoying the World Cup you have to read Unseen Academicals, Pratchetts take on soccer culture and sports fanaticism.

Transworld Publishers are delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration between Sir Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

Sir Terry Pratchett first developed his vision of a chain of parallel worlds, The Long Earth, in an unfinished novel and two short stories in 1986, after writing Equal Rites, the third novel in what would turn into the hugely successful Discworld series. Now, at last, this long-gestating concept is to see the light of day in two as-yet-untitled books written in collaboration with Stephen Baxter, author of Flood, Ark and the Time’s Tapestry and Destiny’s Children series.

‘Our Earth is but one of a chain of parallel worlds, each differing from its neighbours by a little (or a lot) in an infinite landscape of infinite possibilities. And you can just step from one world to the next…’

The deal was brokered through Colin Smythe and Ralph Vicinanza and the first Long Earth novel is due to be published by Doubleday in spring 2012.

Additionally, Sir Terry Pratchett has recently completed I Shall Wear Midnight, the fourth in the Tiffany Aching books, to be published in September, and is already at work on his next Discworld novel for publication in autumn 2011. Number 37 in the series, Unseen Academicals, has just come out in Corgi paperback.