The TV you like thread - The Bear and Badger

Diluted Dante

Probably because weve never seen it.

Kow

And it's mentioned a couple of posts before.

Tempy

Tempy wrote:

I_R wrote:

afgavinstan wrote:

I enjoyed Toast and Fools tbh but he's gonna end up the next Brian Blessed, showing up as VO on TV ads WITH THAT VOICE.

I think he already is, he did the links for Absolute Radio for years.

Absolutely, his voice is everywhere, he even did a Sea of Theives advert.

Still like him though.

poprock

Dammit Tempy.

Jaco

Now this is the kind of TV show I can get behind.

I've always thought that the Vimes books were Pratchett's finest work (yes, even better than the Moist works), so this is very, very good news. Now get the casting of Vimes right please. Clint's too old now, so maybe a grizzled and out of condition Hugh Jackman... (it'll never happen, but a lad can dream).

Unlikely

So Mary Berry is a vampire. Figures.

Raiziel

I do not want to know what Mary Berry does in the shadows.

Kow

I'd imagine he talks in a funny way with that voice in the shadows.

Kow

Oh wait, his sister Mary. I don't know.

poprock

Jaco wrote:

Now get the casting of Vimes right please. Clint's too old now, so maybe a grizzled and out of condition Hugh Jackman... (it'll never happen, but a lad can dream).

They’ve been working on the idea of a Watch TV series for years, even back when Terry was still with us. Glad it’s finally reached the ‘official’ point. The original chat from Rhianna was to make it a police procedural that just happens to be set in that world. If they can tone down the silliness and give it some grit, I’m in.

Casting Vimes used to be regular drunken argument around here. Here’s a left-field suggestion: Dennis Quaid. Check out his recent performance in Fortitude – he could do it. (My pick is probably Richard Dormer, since we’re talking Fortitude anyway. But he’d need to work on his accent.)

RamSteelwood

Jaco wrote:

Now this is the kind of TV show I can get behind. I've always thought that the Vimes books were Pratchett's finest work (yes, even better than the Moist works), so this is very, very good news. Now get the casting of Vimes right please. Clint's too old now, so maybe a grizzled and out of condition Hugh Jackman... (it'll never happen, but a lad can dream).

I loved the Watch stuff too. Never really enjoyed the other TV adaptations that i've seen though, but here's hoping this can be pulled off. A series is a better start than a one off special anyway!

Jaco

poprock wrote:

Jaco wrote:

Now get the casting of Vimes right please. Clint's too old now, so maybe a grizzled and out of condition Hugh Jackman... (it'll never happen, but a lad can dream).

Here’s a left-field suggestion: Dennis Quaid.

Ooh, that's an interesting call. Yeah, I could go with that...

nick_md

Is Matt Berry going to be done that one thing Matt Berry does?

I'm with Kow.

Moot_Geeza

I like Matt Berry but I'm not too keen on his voice.

Jaco

Moot_Geeza wrote:

I like Matt Berry but I'm not too keen on his voice.

But that's his one thing, apparently.

monkey

I think there's more to him than just his voice. But he absolutely is just that one character in all his stuff that he either dials up or down (usually way up). I still think he's hilarious, but it depends on the script.

Tempy

He likes his surrealism too in Snuff Box, Toast, and his work with Bob Mortimer. He’s also a great musician, he just hides a lot of it under that One Thing he does which is pointing and saying things like “You better SHAPE UP or SHIT OFF bucko.”

Diluted Dante

Berry is a very good visual comic too. He's not quite Rowan Atkinson level, but who is?

Yossarian

Rowan Atkinson?

Jaco

I think that might have been implicit, Yoss.

Also, John Cleese.

poprock

Jaco wrote:

Now this is the kind of TV show I can get behind. I've always thought that the Vimes books were Pratchett's finest work (yes, even better than the Moist works), so this is very, very good news.

6Music have just done a segment on this forthcoming Watch series. Sounds positive, in all … but it was only a pundit’s opinions based on the original press release. No new facts.

Jaco

If they get it right, it'll be brilliant. Hopefully it'll be based on the original 'City Watch' trilogy ('Guards! Guards!', 'Men At Arms' and 'Feet of Clay') and set up the story properly. Coming into an "existing world" simply wouldn't work as there is too much background you need to understand to really get the characters.

The Daddy

Aye. The development of Vimes, Carrot, Angua etc over the course of the books was one of the best things about them.

Jaco

Yup. If they did those three and 'Jingo', 'Carpe Jugulum' and 'The Fifth Elephant' over the course of a few seasons, I'd be a very happy boy. The characters dropped off in 'Night Watch', 'Thud!' etc. But those six books would make a superb overall arc.

Blocks100

Look, as long as it's got Rincewind in it, I'll be happy.

poprock

Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment were my two favourite Pratchett books as I got older and developed a bit of perspective. Less of the silliness, more inherent comedy in the tragedy of how true they were.

Frosty

Aye, the Watch stories are my favourite Discworld novels. How they turn that into a TV show is tough though, I have no idea.

poprock wrote:

Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment were my two favourite Pratchett books as I got older and developed a bit of perspective. Less of the silliness, more inherent comedy in the tragedy of how true they were.

This sounds like a good start though. Basically the opposite of those Sky1 attempts.

Idris Elba might make a good vimes? He has the gravellyness from Luther

Jaco

Frosty wrote:

Idris Elba might make a good vimes? He has the gravellyness from Luther

Vimes needs to be more of an everyman. Wiry, middle-aged and a bit broken. No one intimidating or muscular. Vimes got his ferocity from moral outrage, whisky (in the early days) and sheer bloody-mindedness.

Charles Dance was a perfect Vetinari though.

Jaco

poprock wrote:

Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment were my two favourite Pratchett books as I got older and developed a bit of perspective. Less of the silliness, more inherent comedy in the tragedy of how true they were.

I forgot Monstrous Regiment. That's a great book. I think my favourite Vimes story was Jingo, still holds up really well today. More so, with all the daftness going on in the world.

Frosty

Jaco wrote:

Frosty wrote:

Idris Elba might make a good vimes? He has the gravellyness from Luther

Vimes needs to be more of an everyman. Wiry, middle-aged and a bit broken. No one intimidating or muscular. Vimes got his ferocity from moral outrage, whisky (in the early days) and sheer bloody-mindedness.

Charles Dance was a perfect Vetinari though.

Yeah... he doesn't fit at all. I'm bad at fantasy casting

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