The doomsday clock counts down as HBO gives Watchmen a premiere date

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Thankfully, the upcoming Watchmen TV series on HBO won't be a straight-up adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' celebrated graphic-novel, instead, series creator Damon Lindelof has said that the new series will treat the original comic as their "old testament," adding that "those issues are sacred ground and will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted. They will however be remixed. Because the bass lines in those familiar tracks are just too good and we’d be fools not to sample them." This gives the series a lot of potential to break their own ground, and I'm excited to see what Lindelof and company have come up with.

HBO have now announced that the highly-anticipated series will debut on October 20, 2019. Tick tock, folks. Tick tock.

It remains to be seen if Watchmen can live up to the comic from which it takes its inspiration, but it does boast a hell of a cast, including Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tom Mison, and Frances Fisher.

The official synopsis for Watchmen:

Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, WATCHMEN, from executive producer Damon Lindelof (Emmy® winner for “Lost”; HBO’s “The Leftovers”) embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.

Once again, Watchmen will premiere on HBO on October 20, 2019.