![]() ![]() It's kind of like JJ Abrams/Kelvin universe of Star Trek. It exists in a backwater of the multiverse. So The Watch, the TV show, is not a canon show. What we tried to do is to say that the show refers to the fact that this world exists in a multiverse. Of course, we were aware of how awfully precious these things are. And we zeroed in on this theme of helplessness and impotence in our show - the city watcher in a very corrupt city where crime is kind of hardwired into its DNA and the journey of this show is all about how they gradually worked their way in from the margins to the center and start to realize that they can do something. I felt like there was something really funny to be had, something really thrilling to be had. So it needed to be a show that was aware of the fact it's a show subverting conventions and tropes and so on. And I just kind of felt that was a show to be had, which I hope we've made, that had his amazing self-awareness, the way he's kind of present in his stories as a commentator and narrator. It's not an exaggeration to mention him in the same breath as Dickens and Shakespeare, I think. Terry Pratchett is a titan, he's an extraordinary figure in British culture. Let's try and bring a new audience to these incredible books, but also to make something that kind of works on its own terms.Īnd I just absolutely adore these books. SIMON ALLEN: They'd been trying to get a show made from the source material for a very long time, and so I was asked to come and look at the whole thing again, look at what kind of show we could make from this material. ![]()
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