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Is Terry Pratchett’s Discworld coming to our televisions?

There has been much speculation over the years over whether Terry Pratchett’s Discworld will be heading to our TV screens.

Pratchett’s books have been adapted to film many times since the 1990s; noteably the late, great Christopher Lee starred as Death in both Soul Music (1997) and Wyrd Sisters (1998). Fan-made movie versions of Mort (2001) and Lords and Ladies (2005) showed how Discworld fanatics were not done with it yet, and in 2006 a £6 million version of The Hogfather was adapted into a made-for-TV movie by Sky 1. Hogfather starred David Jason in the role of Albert, and features Terry Pratchett in a brief cameo role as the Toymaker.

Pratchett appeared in two subsequent adaptations- The Colour of Magic (2008) and Going Postal (2010)- playing an astrozoologist and postman respectively.

The question on everyone’s lips since Terry’s death in 2015 is “Will the Discworld grace our screens again?”




Let’s get down to it then- is it coming back? Are there any official sources telling us it is?

The simple answer is… Sort of..?

According to mainstream sources like The Independent and Radio Times, a television series based on Pratchett’s Discworld has been in the pipeline for a while and is due to be produced this year. Sadly those newspapers gained this information from a not-so-trustworthy source- Deadline Hollywood- and there has yet to be any real confirmation from the BBC or Terry’s daughter Rhianna.

In fact, Rhianna has gone as far as to tweet a very non-cryptic warning to those getting too excited from the speculative news:

As Terry himself would say: “Never believe it’s going to happen until you’re sitting in the cinema eating popcorn.”

We band of feverish Discworldians will just have to rewatch and reread about Ankh-Morpork until the news is officially confirmed!




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