The Watch

TV Series
2020–2021
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Richard Dormer, Ralph Ineson, Marama Corlett, Lara Rossi, Craig Macrae, Adam Hugill, and Joni Ayton-Kent in The Watch (2020)

Anyone can be a hero. ‘The Watch’, an all-new series inspired by characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett stars Richard Dormer as Vimes and Lara Rossi as Lady Sybil Ramkin, premieres Sunday, January 3rd on BBC America or stream on AMC+.

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A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe.A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe.A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe.

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

6.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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After the release of the trailer Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of Discworld author Terry Pratchett, commented on Twitter: "Look, I think it's fairly obvious that The Watch shares no DNA with my father's Watch. This is neither criticism nor support. It is what it is." Fantasy author Neil Gaiman, who was a personal friend of Pratchett, added that fans like the source material "so if you do something else, you risk alienating the fans on a monumental scale. It's not Batman if he's now a news reporter in a yellow trenchcoat with a pet bat."

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Featured in Sky News Breakfast: Episode dated 3 July 2021 (2021)

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A misfire

They somehow took one of the funniest series of books and handed it to a writer and director who don't have a sense of humour. The tone is off. The cast try their best but the pacing and tone are nothing like Pratchett and nothing like his books. So we're left with a series which is an object of interest to fans of Pratchett and fans of comedy sci-fi, but in the end it is a misfire. It fails to even be fun, coherent storytelling.