Neil Gaiman

More backstory for Michael Sheen's prissy angel, Aziraphale, and David Tennant's louche demon, Crowley, as this adaptation of the Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett novel continues. From Noah's ark to the crucifixion, the pair have plenty of shared history. This series has proved as inventive as its provenance suggests.

It is episode two of Neil Gaiman's fantasy series, based on his book with Terry Pratchett, and England's long history of witchcraft starts to play its part in the looming apocalypse. If you can stomach how arch and mannered it all is, the sparkling, high-budget visuals offer a blizzard of clever ideas.

Good Omens review

The story is based on a novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, so it's bursting with daft jokes. Silliest of the lot is the convent for devil-worshipping nuns, the Sisters of the Chattering Order of St Beryl.

Good Omens review

Would Terry Pratchett have been happy with the result? I imagine he would certainly have laughed. And that would be entirely down to Michael Sheen as the blond, fluffy-haired angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as the snake-eyed devil's demon Crowley, hiding his terrifying irises with sunglasses.

Good Omens review

The script is full of irreverence, wit and charm, largely centred around Aziraphale and Crowley's chemistry.

Good Omens review

Neil Gaiman's Armageddon fantasy has landed on BBC Two - but it's far from heavenly.

Neil Gaiman: anti-Good Omens petition was "best thing"

Signed by 22,000 enraged individuals, the petition claimed that the series represented devils and Satanists as "good", and that it "mocks God's wisdom". Neil Gaiman - who co-wrote the novel with Terry Pratchett - is thoroughly grateful for the free publicity the whole palaver gave the series.

Thousands petition wrong company to cancel Good Omens

A US Christian group has condemned Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's story as "making satanism appear normal" - but are petitioning the wrong company.

Good Omens review

Good Omens will probably work best for those with a strong decades-old attachment to the material already, or people more attuned to the kind of genial wackiness it's going for.