Our favorite fiction author is finally getting one of his novels turned into a movie:

He is the best-selling fantasy fiction author from the West whose mysterious tales are loved by millions of bookworms the world over. Now, for the first time, one of the stories from Wiltshire-based Terry Pratchett's hugely popular Discworld series is to be adapted into a TV film. And the £6million Sky One production will feature a host of familiar faces, including one of Britain's best-loved actors, Sir David Jason, in a starring role.

Hogfather will be the first time a book from Pratchett's Discworld series has been made into a feature-length film.

Hogfather, for those poor pagans unaware of and those phillistines who refuse to read Pratchett, is a send-up of Christmastime with Death (you know, tall, skeletal, wears a cape, carries a scythe, TALKS LIKE THIS... anyone? anyone? Buehler?) being forced to stand-in for the jolly one in the red suit.

In other words, a wonderful addition to your holiday library! :)