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BBC America’s The Watch has taken Sir Terry Pratchett’s characters from the Discworld series and given them a good shake – as executive producer Richard Stokes explained:

The feel of it was to be very contemporary but if you look at all our references, they are things like the original Star Wars and Time Bandits. In terms of its tone, we wanted to do something visually that Pratchett did with the books, which is constantly question the form. He would do footnotes and be present as a narrator and he would introduce obstructions and obstacles to literary form in order to help the satire and comedy. We wanted to do the same thing visually but of course you can’t do footnotes. So we had to reinvent what he was doing in a literary way for a television audience.

Click here to read the full interview, and for our previous coverage of The Watch click here.