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Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

  • English
  • Writer and author

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Good Omens was "too big" for the BBC to do alone

The writer explained how he ended up working with Amazon Prime Video "almost accidentally" after the BBC realised his and Terry Pratchett's vision was too great a project to adapt without backing.

James Gill, Radio Times, 2nd October 2018

Discworld: revisiting the Sky adaptations

By the third one, Sky's Discworld adaptations really started to work. With a new series in development, one fan revisits them...

Andrew Blair, Den Of Geek, 20th March 2018

Can the TV adaptation of Discworld succeed?

Fantasy and sci-fi can often be bogged down in lore and backstory but British sci-fi always works best when laughs are put ahead of anything else.

David Barnett, The Guardian, 14th March 2018

What can we expect from the Discworld TV series?

Mathew Baynton as Rincewind, anyone? Here are our hopes and thoughts on news that the Discworld TV series is moving ahead...

Andrew Blair, Den Of Geek, 7th March 2018

Terry Pratchett series The Watch coming to TV

BBC Studios is developing The Watch, a series based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.

British Comedy Guide, 1st March 2018

BBC Comedy and Amazon to bring Good Omens to TV

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's fantasy comedy novel Good Omens is to become a major new TV comedy series on the BBC and Amazon Prime.

British Comedy Guide, 20th January 2017

Terry Pratchett Discworld novel The Wee Free Men to become a film

Terry Pratchett's comedic Discworld book The Wee Free Men is to be made into a film by The Jim Henson Company.

British Comedy Guide, 20th July 2016

Good Omens: Neil Gaiman to adapt book for TV

Author says he changed his mind about adapting novel without co-author after receiving a posthumous letter from Pratchett asking him to.

Sian Cain, The Guardian, 15th April 2016

Terry Pratchett: above all, he was funny

Not only did Sir Terry upend the fantasy genre and declare war on social injustice, he did so hilariously - and that is why he'll be remembered.

Nick Harkaway, The Guardian, 20th March 2015

Comic fantasy author Terry Pratchett dies aged 66

UK fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett dies aged 66 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, his publisher says. He was the creator of the "Discworld" series of comic fantasy novels.

BBC News, 12th March 2015

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