Terry Pratchett Talks Discworld-Inspired TV Show, New Book Dodger

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NEW YORK — An upcoming television show based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels will focus on crime-fighting character Samuel Vimes, said the writer Friday at New York Comic Con.
Vimes is the no-nonsense commander of the City Watch, a burgeoning police force in the fantasy Discworld city of Ankh-Morpork. His exploits will form the basis of the show, to be called The Watch.
“Think of it like a Pratchett-style CSI,” the charismatic British novelist said. “Only you won’t get it over here because you tipped our tea in the harbor ‘n’ all that shit,” he joked to the laughing crowd.
It might be fair to say that Samuel Vimes and Sir Terry aren’t all that dissimilar. Vimes worked his way up from poverty-struck origins to the aristocratic circles of Ankh-Morpork society. Pratchett grew up in public housing and described himself at Comic Con as a “poor man with lots of money.”
“I still clean my own toilet,” he hastened to add.

Pratchett didn’t reveal much else about the upcoming TV show, which is slated for 13 episodes. The crowd seemed more interested in whether, when and from which series there’d be more novels. (Pratchett’s comic fantasy Discworld series has been ongoing for the past three decades.)
Pratchett was at New York Comic Con to promote and introduce Dodger, his latest book, which parodies the life of Charles Dickens. It was released on Sept. 13 in the United Kingdom. The book is the result of a “lifetime of research” and experience, said Pratchett.
“I fully intend there to be a Dodger sequel,” he said, but with a caveat: “as long as I’m spared. You must pray for me.” Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in December 2007. He didn’t waste the opportunity to playfully mock his fans, though: “You don’t look like a praying lot, I must say.”
Pratchett also read the first couple of pages of Dodger aloud to the crowd. The book opens with a dingy Victorian street scene where “the drains and sewers were overflowing.” A young woman is walking the street at night, where she’s set upon by two men and subsequently rescued by a young lad.
“That was pretty good, wasn’t it?” quipped Pratchett after the reading.
He also hinted that he wanted to pen additional novels for his other book series. “I can’t imagine being alive and not writing,” he said.