FT;
Only Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music were animated. Soul music was the better of the two (Christopher [saruman] Lee voiced Death!) but Wyrd Sisters not so good at all. June Whitfield, voicing Nanny Ogg, convinced "Cartoons are for children" toned down Nanny Ogg's lines because she thought Nanny's earthyness was "inappropriate for children": Terry Prattchet was most displeased, which probably explains why no more were made.

IIRC there's a Live Action version of one of the books in the pipeline, but I'd have to check my old 'Ansible's to confirm that, and they're still on an old HD I havn't extracted the files I want to keep from yet.

Emma B:
Yep he did get a lot of hate mail after Lords and ladies, but Tolkien fans were not the main culprets at all! At the time most of the mail came from people who believe they are reincarnations of Elves; I kid thee not! Do a google of "Otherkin" and be prepared to have thy mind boggled. There is some overlap as many of these folk seem to have been informed of elves from Tolkien, and quite a few believe that Tolkien was an Otherkin, not writing fiction, but memories of his life as an Elf. They've lists of fantasy writers who "got it right" and therefore are obviously either Otherkin themselves or "Elfreinds", and non-Otherkin ones who "made it up" and give us humans the "wrong idea" about elves. Lord Dunsany tops the fist list and Prattchet the second. Oddly few are aware of Norse ledgends of Light and Dark Elves or their close folkloric relatives the Irish Sidhe, Tuatha De Dannan; and those that do believe that the Scots Folklore of the Seelie Court predate the Irish and Norse - which are mere corruptions of the Truth as given in Scots folklore.

Pogo:
Vimes turns up as a supporting character after Night Watch in both Monstrous Regiment and in Going Postal.

In Gerneral;
Some books do seem on first reading to either be weak or out of cannon, but they get much better with re-reading; Monstrous Regiment is definitly one of those; it's deep and it takes a while to get it - the hidden comentary on political Spin and the western attitude to Saddam Hussain's Iraq passed me by completly on first reading. I loathed Sourcery when I first read it too, now I do not understand what i found to dislike in it!

I'm kinda surprised that seeing as Mudcatters are Musicians or Fans that Soul Music, his most music dependent book that takes affectionate swipes at working musicians and their life, hasn't been cited as fave
by anyone yet. It introduced Susan too!

Wrinkles