![]() ![]() It’s something to do with finding a missing library book and an illicit drug called Slab, but there, I confess, my interest parted ways with my intellect and I completely lost the thread. They soon find themselves with a mission that finally gives the Watch purpose. ![]() He has made the Watch into a safehouse for loners and misfits who he has brought under his wing. Vimes is an alcoholic waster, but, inevitably, a waster with a heart. ![]() It’s certainly the case with The Watch, which assembles so many great ingredients – Richard Dormer, Anna Chancellor, Ruth Madeley and Paul Kaye working in Pratchett’s fictional city of Ankh-Morpork and playing out a CSI-style punk police drama under the stewardship of the usually excellent director Craig Viveiros – and yet serves up a dog’s dinner.ĭormer plays Sam Vimes, Captain of the City Watch, the anarchic city’s police force which, owing to criminals having been organised into professional “Guilds”, has nothing to do. It works both ways - you can have a top-notch ensemble of actors, great source material and a healthy budget, and yet still extrude a proper stinker. If you ask people in television why such-and-such was a hit they’ll tell you about magic in a bottle, alchemy and happenstance. For everyone else it might have been better if The Watch went unseen. It’s not immediately clear why it is now being granted a terrestrial berth – presumably something contractual – because Pratchett fans will already have watched it, for good or ill. This loose adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels went out on BBC America at the beginning of the year and has been available on iPlayer since the beginning of last month. Mid August when everyone is away is TV’s version of a good day to bury bad news, which must be why the BBC have snuck The Watch (BBC Two) into the schedules. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |