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Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

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Neil Gaiman: Agnes Nutter was almost cut

When it came to choosing what to cut from the Good Omens TV adaptation, Gaiman says he fought to protect co-author Pratchett's work "more passionately" than his own.

Flora Carr, Radio Times, 15th May 2019

Good Omens brings Terry Pratchett's dying wish to life

It is the screenplay Neil Gaiman never wanted to write, but Good Omens is being brought to television to fulfil his writing partner Sir Terry Pratchett's dying wish.

Grant Tucker, The Times, 12th May 2019

Good Omens release date has finally been confirmed

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that the hotly anticipated adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel will be released on Friday 31st May 2019.

James Gill, Radio Times, 13th February 2019

Good Omens isn't funny? That's hilarious

Some early critics of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel said it was short of good lines. But we could spend all day citing prize zingers ...

Sam Jordison, The Guardian, 15th January 2019

Fantasy credentials don't come much better than those of this Amazon series, which has been adapted by Neil Gaiman from the novel he co-wrote with the late Terry Pratchett. It stars David Tennant as a raffish demon who has formed an unlikely 6,000-year friendship with Michael Sheen's buttoned-down angel. When a looming apocalypse threatens their bromance, the pair team up to save the world. Psychedelic visuals, epic set-pieces and some wild hairpieces sported by Tennant suggest this could be a blast.

Lanre Bakare, Gwilym Mumford and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 2nd January 2019

Exclusive photos from the set of Good Omens

It's a match made in heaven -- or is that hell?

Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 5th October 2018

Good Omens was "too big" for the BBC to do alone

The writer explained how he ended up working with Amazon Prime Video "almost accidentally" after the BBC realised his and Terry Pratchett's vision was too great a project to adapt without backing.

James Gill, Radio Times, 2nd October 2018

Discworld: revisiting the Sky adaptations

By the third one, Sky's Discworld adaptations really started to work. With a new series in development, one fan revisits them...

Andrew Blair, Den Of Geek, 20th March 2018

Can the TV adaptation of Discworld succeed?

Fantasy and sci-fi can often be bogged down in lore and backstory but British sci-fi always works best when laughs are put ahead of anything else.

David Barnett, The Guardian, 14th March 2018

What can we expect from the Discworld TV series?

Mathew Baynton as Rincewind, anyone? Here are our hopes and thoughts on news that the Discworld TV series is moving ahead...

Andrew Blair, Den Of Geek, 7th March 2018

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