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Post by fitzoliverj on Jun 23, 2021 17:02:58 GMT
iPlayer from 1st July, with an eventual BBC2 broadcast planned
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Post by mark687 on Jun 23, 2021 21:20:48 GMT
Cheers for the heads up I'll give it a look.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 6, 2021 11:14:46 GMT
Binged "Watched" this over the Weekend Well worth checking out on BBC I-Player Cheers fitzoliverj
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mark687
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Post by tuigirl on Jul 6, 2021 19:14:11 GMT
Would love to see this! Huge Pratchett Fan! But will have to wait until it is made available in Germany. Hurry up, buy the rights already!  |
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 10, 2021 18:34:14 GMT
Saw the first episode, and - granting it's widely said that the series improved - what a crock of ****. Firstly, even if the actors were speaking clearly, it would still be almost totally incomprehensible. God help viewers who don't recognise the names and concepts (and everybody familiar with the books won't recognise the characters). Secondly, they've clearly spent a lot of money on it, so why is it Discworld In Name Only? None of the characters act like they do in the books, and the city's not even located amongst cabbage fields but a desert. Why are goblins the same height as everybody else? WHY ARE DWARFS TALL?!! If they wanted a generic fantasy series, why not make one up? It's clearly a very cynical project, because the opening credits cite it as based on characters by 'Sir Terry Pratchett'. How many tv adaptations of novels cite the writers' honorific? It's always PG Wodehouse, VS Naipaul and Kingsley Amis, never Sir Pelham or Sir Vidiadhur or even Sir Kingsley. Thirdly, some odd acting. Anna Chancellor seems to have forgotten how to do it; Richard Dormer is either a genius or deeply unwell; Lara Rossi is actually quite good, but she appears to be in a different program altogether. So, over in another thread - notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/post/300337/thread |
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