I always say no to adapting my own stuff. In the midst of a global promotional push, Gaiman slowed down long enough to talk to GQ about the process of adapting Good Omens-and which of his other stories might be next on the list. "I never planned to do this," Gaiman admits. In the end, it took Neil Gaiman personally shepherding the project to bring Good Omens to the small screen, as a kind of tribute to his late coauthor Terry Pratchett, who died in 2015. In the U.K., you’ll need to watch week-by-week.) (In the United States, you can binge-watch all six episodes of Good Omens on Amazon Prime right now. An ambitious, witty, laugh-a-minute depiction of the end of the world-as seen through the eyes of an angel and a demon- Good Omens also represented a dream-team collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, two of the world’s most beloved fantasy writers.īut despite a series of false starts, which were dutifully reported on by the Hollywood trades, Good Omens took nearly 30 years to reach the small screen, in a star-studded, six-episode miniseries that represents a coproduction between Amazon and the BBC. On paper, the 1990 novel Good Omens is a perfect candidate for a film or TV adaptation.
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