Adaptations

This page lists adaptations of Pratchett’s works for film, television or the web. Videogames appear in the separate list of games, and there (or will be) are separate lists for audiobooks, audio drama (including radio) and comics.

Official screen adaptations

The below table is sortable. We’ve by default listed the adaptations in release order.

Title	Release Date^[1]	Abbr.^[2]	Based on	Format	Produced by
Truckers	1992-01-10	TTV	Truckers	Stop-motion animated television series	Cosgrove Hall
Johnny and the Dead	1995-04-04	TTV	Johnny and the Dead	Live-action television mini-series	London Weekend Television
Welcome to the Discworld	1996^[3]	WTTD	Reaper Man	Animated short film	Cosgrove Hall
Wyrd Sisters	1997-05-11^[4]	WSTV	Wyrd Sisters	Animated television mini-series	Cosgrove Hall
Soul Music	1997-12-27^[4]	SMTV	Soul Music	Animated television mini-series	Cosgrove Hall
Johnny and the Bomb	2006-01-15	JATBTV	Johnny and the Bomb	Live-action television mini-series	Childsplay Television
Terry Pratchett's Hogfather	2006-12-17	HTV	Hogfather	Live-action television mini-series	The Mob
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic	2008-03-23	COMTV	The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic	Live-action television mini-series	The Mob
Going Postal	2010-05-30	GPTV	Going Postal	Live-action television mini-series	The Mob
Troll Bridge^[5]	2019-01-16	TBF	“Troll Bridge”	Live-action short film	Snowgum Films
Good Omens	2019-05-31^[6]	GOTV	Good Omens	Live-action television series	Amazon Prime/BBC
The Watch	2021-01-03^[7]	TWTV	The Watch books^[8]	Live-action television series	BBC America
The Amazing Maurice	2022-12-16^[9]	GPTV	Going Postal	Animated feature film	Ulysses FilmProduktion et al

Fan films

Title	Release Date^[1]	Abbr.^[2]	Based on	Format	Produced by	L-Space wiki link

Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 For series, this is the first broadcast date, or streaming release date, of the first episode. For films, this is the first wide release date. Basically we’re trying to indicate when the adaptation was first made available to a wide audience, but we’ll make notes where the dating is a bit unclear.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 A template using this abbreviation has been set up to make linking to this adaptation easier. Type the acronym in braces, e.g. {{GOTV}} will produce Good Omens. By convention, we’re hiding the parenthetical distinctions like “(TV series)” for adaptations that use the same name as the original work; where it’s not obvious in context, use a regular wiki link and be explicit, e.g. “unlike in the television adaptation of Good Omens”.
↑ Never broadcast, but released on the DVD for Soul Music.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 There’s a lot of conflicting information around when the Cosgrove Hall animated adaptations were broadcast on Channel 4, for whom they were originally produced, but it seems correct that Wyrd Sisters was in May 1997. Some sources then have Soul Music not being broadcast until December 1999, which seems far too late, especially when those same sources say the DVD was released in 1997! So we’re guessing this one, and are continuig to investigate.
↑ While more-or-less a fan film, Troll Bridge had official permission from Pratchett and is such a huge production it feels more appropriate to list it with the other official screen adaptations.
↑ This is the streaming release date for all episodes on Amazon Prime. It was later broadcast weekly on BBC Two, beginning on 15 January 2020.
↑ This is the streaming release date for the first two episodes on BBC America in the US and Stan in Australia. It was released on BBC iPlayer on 1 July 2021, and eventually broadcast on BBC Two from 12 August 2021.
↑ Rather than adapting a single book, The Watch creates a new story drawing primarily on ideas from Guards! Guards!, Night Watch and Thud!.
↑ This was the premiere on Sky Movies; it had a limited premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022.

[releasedate-1] 1.0 ^1.1 For series, this is the first broadcast date, or streaming release date, of the first episode. For films, this is the first wide release date. Basically we’re trying to indicate when the adaptation was first made available to a wide audience, but we’ll make notes where the dating is a bit unclear.

[shortcuts-2] 2.0 ^2.1 A template using this abbreviation has been set up to make linking to this adaptation easier. Type the acronym in braces, e.g. {{GOTV}} will produce Good Omens. By convention, we’re hiding the parenthetical distinctions like “(TV series)” for adaptations that use the same name as the original work; where it’s not obvious in context, use a regular wiki link and be explicit, e.g. “unlike in the television adaptation of Good Omens”.

[3] Never broadcast, but released on the DVD for Soul Music.

[AnimatedDates-4] 4.0 ^4.1 There’s a lot of conflicting information around when the Cosgrove Hall animated adaptations were broadcast on Channel 4, for whom they were originally produced, but it seems correct that Wyrd Sisters was in May 1997. Some sources then have Soul Music not being broadcast until December 1999, which seems far too late, especially when those same sources say the DVD was released in 1997! So we’re guessing this one, and are continuig to investigate.

[5] While more-or-less a fan film, Troll Bridge had official permission from Pratchett and is such a huge production it feels more appropriate to list it with the other official screen adaptations.

[6] This is the streaming release date for all episodes on Amazon Prime. It was later broadcast weekly on BBC Two, beginning on 15 January 2020.

[7] This is the streaming release date for the first two episodes on BBC America in the US and Stan in Australia. It was released on BBC iPlayer on 1 July 2021, and eventually broadcast on BBC Two from 12 August 2021.

[8] Rather than adapting a single book, The Watch creates a new story drawing primarily on ideas from Guards! Guards!, Night Watch and Thud!.

[9] This was the premiere on Sky Movies; it had a limited premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022.

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