CSI: Ankh-Morpork

Terry Pratchett's Discworld to become a weekly mystery show. [Link]

Prime Focus Productions, the people behind the upcoming Good Omens TV series and the three existing Discworld miniseries, have commenced development on a new, ongoing show. This one will revolved around the City Watch police force of Terry Pratchett‘s vibrant fantasy city, Ankh-Morpork. It’s an amazing location, as vividly described in the fantasist-satirist’s series of 38-going-on-39 Discworld novels.

As with Good Omens, Terry Jones and Gavin Scott have been called in to work on the scripts, and ccording to the press release, they’ll be plotting:

…a ‘crime of the week’ episodic storyline. As each weekly adventure unfolds, viewers will be taken on a ride through Pratchett’s genius imagination, with the author overseeing the creation of the series,  where wild and exciting encounters with werewolves, dragons, dwarfs, trolls and golems and the classic heroes and villains, are an everyday occurrence…and where many of these characters even make outstanding crime fighters!

There’s been early interest from broadcasters around the world and, with luck and following wind, we could be seeing this on screens before too, too long. It might be a hard one to pull off, but there’s certainly a good sized fan base in place already, and pretty much anything like a police procedural seems to have a shot at ratings glory, so here’s hoping.