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Happy news for Pratchett fans =DDDDD

1. Snuff is completed:

According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his mind, but not out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.

But not quite all…

Published 13th October 2011

2. Good Omens TV adaptation: Pratchett and Gaiman have signed for Good Omens to be adapted...which is a double coincidence since I just finished (re)reading the book and supposedly the end of the world is next year LOL. Always mixed feelings when it comes to adapting a favourite book. Hope the casting is as good as Going Postal

So, ladies and gentleman, I can hereby exclusively reveal that - YES - Neil and myself have shaken hands and received groats from Rod Brown sealing a TV deal. An official announcement from Prime Focus will follow in a couple of weeks time. However, I can reveal right now that Terry Jones (yes, the Python) and Gavin Scott (not a Python, but he gets it) are already on the job. It's been a long time coming, but it's looking good.

3. Discworld TV adaptation: Will let the news speak for itself

Sir Terry Pratchett and Rod Brown, Managing Director of Prime Focus Productions, announce that they have come to an agreement for the unprecedented and exclusive worldwide television rights to create brand new storylines for the iconic characters of Pratchett’s phenomenally successful Discworld series.

(...) Whilst there have been three successful mini series adaptations of his Discworld books made for television in the UK, this is the first time that Pratchett has granted a production company the international rights to his characters and world, for the creation of new stories exclusively for a television audience.

The main focus of the series will be set in the bustling, highly mercantile, largely untrustworthy and always vibrant city of Ankh-Morpork and will follow the day-to-day activities of the men, women, trolls, dwarves, vampires and several other species who daily pound its ancient cobbles (and, of course, Igor in the forensics department). 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!

It will be almost like NCIS! But weirder XDD

Not so sure about being dumped right in the middle of the Watch, since one of the joys was to watch the dynamics develop. Do I spy "vampires"? I was hoping Sally would NOT feature in any further Watch series ==; Damn. It'll be so many people to introduce at once though. Even just the core group is huge - Vimes, Carrot, Nobbs, Colon, Angua, Detritus, Cheery...and since they promised them, Sally and Igor. I'd like to see Dorfl if only because I'm partial to stone/clay/rock things XD And of course any series in Ankh-Morpork must feature Vetinari...=O

Again...hope the casting is good Oo;

I just found out that the motto of the Guild of Seamstresses is "Where the customer comes first". I paused, and then said "oh gawd", and forever hated myself for making sense of it.
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