Going Postal

[anonymous-user]

Anyone else seen the ads for this on sky? Should be on sometime soon, and amongst others, has charles dance as vetinari, and david suchet as reacher gilt. Looks good, and if its anything like the hogfather, should be worth a watch.


Just looked it up, and it will be a two parter on towards the end of may, on sky1 and sky1HD

Edited by snowy slopes on Wednesday 5th May 14:27

[rescynic]

seen the ad's but really wasnt sure what to make of it. Going postal is a damn good discworld novel so heres hoping they dont stuff it up.

[Halb]

I am a huge DW fan, have been since '86. And I felt the two live action recent adaptions were decent (Hogfather deffo the best), but I came away thinking they lacked a certain something...The advert for this makes it look the best yet.

The best adaption of a TP novel on the small screen has to be Truckers for me...though The Wee Free Men will be out this year....we shall wait and see precious...

[Chim Chim]

At least it hasn't got David Jason miscast again! And Twoflower is bloomin oriental not a yank!!!! sad but annoyed with stupid changes!

[RizzoTheRat]

AS a big discworld fan I wasn't that impressed with the TV adeptations so far, agree about David Jason being misscast as Rincewind. Hopefully they do better this this one.

Geoff from Coupling as Moist, he was great in Coupling but I'm not 100% sure about that

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Wednesday 5th May 19:00

[Halb]

RizzoTheRat said:

AS a big discworld fan I wasn't that impressed with the TV adeptations so far, agree about David Jason being misscast as Rincewind. Hopefully they do better this this one.

Geoff from Coupling as Moist, he was great in Coupling but I'm not 100% sure about that

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Wednesday 5th May 19:00

Nor am I. But we shall see.
Agreed that jason shouldn't have elbowed his way into the Rincewind character as well as Albert.

[Racefan_uk]

I'm really hoping at some point they'll do 'Mort' It was the first DW book I read and it's still my favourite. The fact that Death needs an apprentice still makes me laugh now.

Edited by Racefan_uk on Wednesday 5th May 20:28

[MentalSarcasm]

Oooh I'll have to remember to Sky+ it! I didn't actually read the Hogfather book but did like the TV adaptation so it'll be interesting to see an adaptation of one I have actually read XD

(Before the purists crucify me, I've read the witches series and the Watch series, it's just the ones in between I haven't bothered with).

[K12beano]

Previously, the adaptations seems to prove that it just won't translate. It's a bit like Douglas Adams' HHGTTG translating from radio (either to a book or film). Bv$$3rs up your perfectly good imagination about the work.

I am not an "avid" Pratchett reader, but "Postal" was a recent read and is fabulous as a book. I think I'll avoid spoiling it!

[anonymous-user]

I've read quite a few of Pratchett's books, and whilst the current adaptations arent brilliant, its been a long time since his work got an airing on the old box. Anyone remember the Cosgrove Hall animations back in the day? They did Soul Music and weird sisters(i think), and iirc were farely faithfull to the books. Anyhoo, it beats the living daylights out of Britain Has No Talent

[Ace-T]

If the folks that edit the Sky ads for this did the editing for the programmes then they might be a bit better. Costume, scenery, casting (apart from Rincewind) is pretty bloody good. The ste editing ruins the pacing and spoilt Hogfather and affected Colour of Magic quite badly.

This was commented on to the director Vadim Jean on the IMDB forums on which he posts. Dunno if he got the message though.

Trace

[anonymous-user]

For anyone interested in this, its going to be on sky 1 and sky 1 hd, starting may 30th. think its going to be over two nights