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Actor Marama Corlett tells DQ about her transformative experience playing the mysterious Corporal Angua in BBC America’s cyberpunk thriller The Watch. As an actor, Marama Corlett has picked up numerous credits in genre-splitting, often fantastical dramas, from Sinbad and Blood Drive to His Dark Materials and The City & The City, as well as an appearance in Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy. “What excites me is to be able to completely transform physically as much as possible and to live ...

1/3/2021 Terry Pratchetts beloved Discworld book series gets another TV adaptation, this time as a police procedural for BBC America, with Matt Berry and Wendell Pierce in supporting roles. “Is this death?” asks a character in the inky-black opening scene of BBC America’s fantasy police dramedy The Watch, addressing a hooded figure whose only visible attributes are his pointed claws, his gleaming sword and his glowing, blue-hued not-quite-eyes. “Obviously,” deadpans Death (voiced by ...

Copy to Clipboard Lara Rossi as Lady Sybil Ramkin (BBC America) Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett’s works have a reason to be excited! BBC America is soon to release its adaptation of Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’ series of fantasy novels. The eight-part season will follow the Ankh-Morpork City Watch from the novels, which in the books evolve from a hopeless gang of three to a fully equipped and efficient police force. Here’s all you need to know about ‘The Watch’: Releas...

The Watch . The series debuts on Sunday, January 3, 2021.] To bestselling fantasy author Terry Pratchett, there was no such thing as a too-obvious joke. Take his character Constable Carrot (Adam Hugill), a well-meaning young man looking to make his name in law enforcement. Pratchett’s Discworld novels explain that Carrot is human, but was raised by dwarves after his birth parents abandoned him. The joke being, he’s tall for a dwarf, which led to considerable tensions down in the mine. (See ...