![]() ![]() The cruel irony is that, for all the efforts the producers of The Watch made to separate themselves from the source material to present a " punk rock thriller," the show was entirely beholden to the original Discworld books. To give one example, the character of Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, who was originally a peddler of questionable sausages in a bun and anything else that might be hurriedly sold out of a suitcase on a street corner, was transfigured into Throat a drug-dealer and police snitch, played by Ruth Madeley from The Rook. ![]() This was because The Watch took character names and concepts from the original Discworld novels, but applied them haphazardly to wholly new characters. ![]() Indeed, the credits for each episode of The Watch described it as being " inspired by" the works of Terry Pratchett rather than being " based on" them. The Watch ranks dead last on the list of Terry Pratchett adaptations because it can't properly be said to be an adaptation. ![]()
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