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|producer=[[Neil Gaiman]], Caroline Skinner, Chris Sussman, [[Rob Wilkins]], Rod Brown
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|cast=Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Sam Taylor Buck
|cast=Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Sam Taylor Buck
|duration=60 minutes
|duration=360 minutes
|episodes=6
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|series=Good Omens
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'''Good Omens''' is a [[TV and film adaptations|tv series adaptation]] of the novel {{GO}} by [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]], created from a joint venture between Amazon.com, the BBC, [[Narrativia]] and The Blank Corporation. There were some other previous attempts to adapt Good Omens including a film that was to be directed by Terry Gilliam and [[Book:A Screenplay|a screenplay]] written by Neil Gaiman; however the series finally came about as a request from Terry to Neil soon before his passing, as it was a project that the two had wanted to see for a long time. The series also includes extra material added to the story from ideas that the authors had that did not make it into the book as well as ideas that could have been in a possible sequel.
'''Good Omens''' is a [[TV and film adaptations|tv series adaptation]] of the novel {{GO}} by [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]], created from a joint venture between Amazon.com, the BBC, [[Narrativia]] and The Blank Corporation. There were some other previous attempts to adapt Good Omens including a film that was to be directed by Terry Gilliam and [[Book:A Screenplay|a screenplay]] written by Neil Gaiman; however the series finally came about as a request from Terry to Neil soon before his passing, as it was a project that the two had wanted to see for a long time. The series also includes extra material added to the story from ideas that the authors had that did not make it into the book as well as ideas that could have been in a possible sequel.
On 29th June 2021 [[Neil Gaiman]] and Amazon Prime announced that a second season of Good Omens was in production; the plot of this season would be based off of notes written about a possible sequel to the book which had the working title of '668: The Neighbour of the Beast.'


==Blurb==
==Blurb==
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*[[Wensleydale]]: Alfie Taylor
*[[Wensleydale]]: Alfie Taylor
*[[Pepper]]: Amma Ris
*[[Pepper]]: Amma Ris
*[[Dog]]: Ollie
*[[Mary Loquacious|Sister Mary Loquacious]]: Nina Sosanya
*[[Mary Loquacious|Sister Mary Loquacious]]: Nina Sosanya
*[[Ligur]]: Ariyon Bakare
*[[Ligur]]: Ariyon Bakare
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*[[Shadwell]]: Michael McKean
*[[Shadwell]]: Michael McKean
*[[Madame Tracy]]: Miranda Richardson
*[[Madame Tracy]]: Miranda Richardson
*[[Death (Good Omens)|Death]]: ???
*[[Agnes Nutter]]: Josie Lawrence
*[[Death (Good Omens)|Death]]: Brian Cox (Voice), Jamie Hill (Body)
*[[War (Good Omens)|War]]: Mireille Enos
*[[War (Good Omens)|War]]: Mireille Enos
*[[Pollution]]: Lourdes Faberes
*[[Pollution]]: Lourdes Faberes
*[[Famine (Good Omens)|Famine]]: Yusuf Gatewood
*[[Famine (Good Omens)|Famine]]: Yusuf Gatewood
*Harmony: Mark Gatiss
*Archangel Gabriel: Jon Hamm
*Archangel Gabriel: Jon Hamm
*Archangel Uriel: Gloria Obianyo
*Archangel Uriel: Gloria Obianyo
*Archangel Michael: Doon Mackichan
*Archangel Michael: Doon Mackichan
*Sandalphon: Paul Chahidi
*Metatron: Derek Jacobi
*Metatron: Derek Jacobi
*U.S. Ambassador: Nick Offerman
*[[Beelzebub]]: Anna Maxwell Martin
*Dagon: Elizabeth Berrington
*Thaddeus J. Dowling-U.S. Ambassador: Nick Offerman
*Harriet Dowling: Jill Winternitz
*[[Warlock Dowling]]: Samson Marraccino
*[[Warlock Dowling]]: Samson Marraccino
*[[Beelzebub]]: Anna Maxwell Martin
*[[Deirdre Young]]: Sian Brooke
*[[Deirdre Young]]: Sian Brooke
*[[Mr. Young|Arthur Young]]: Daniel Mays  
*[[Mr. Young|Arthur Young]]: Daniel Mays
*[[The International Express Man]]: Simon Merrells
*R. P. Tyler/Tadfield Neighbourhood Watch: Bill Paterson
*Anathema's Mother: Gabriella Cirillo
*William Shakespeare: Reece Shearsmith
*William Shakespeare: Reece Shearsmith
*Mr. Harmony: Mark Gatiss
*Mr Glozier: Steve Pemberton
*Rose Montgomery: Niamh Walsh
*God: Frances McDormand
*God: Frances McDormand
*Satan: Benedict Cumberbatch
*Satan: Benedict Cumberbatch
*[[Neil Gaiman]]: Sleeping Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)


==Supplementary Books==
==Supplementary Books==
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Also [[Book:The Definitive Good Omens|''The Definitive Good Omens'']] contains some artwork inspired by the series.
Also [[Book:The Definitive Good Omens|''The Definitive Good Omens'']] contains some artwork inspired by the series.
==[[Chattering Order of St. Beryl|The Chattering Order of St. Beryl]]==
As a part of an advertising campaign for the series, The Chattering Order of St. Beryl launched a website and several social media accounts in order to count down to the Apocalypse.
*[http://chatteringorderofstberyl.com/ The Chattering Order Website]
*[https://twitter.com/chattering_nuns Twitter],[https://www.instagram.com/chatteringnuns/ Instagram],[https://www.facebook.com/chatteringnuns Facebook], [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvl0b5TI20zrXx-6RQBdukA Youtube]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boz7rHYLj6s Brand New Baby Smell-Music Video]
*[https://amazonstudios.lnk.to/UnholyNightIN The Chattering Order of St. Beryl: Unholy Night-Album]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190212040153/http://stberyls.com/index.html The Chattering Order Former Website-Archived Link]
==Differences Between The Book And Series==
'''Spoiler Warning'''
Some of the differences between the series and its source material include:
*The episodes have narration provided by God.
*[[Greasy Johnson]] and the Johnsonites are not mentioned.
*The [[Four Other Riders Of The Apocalypse]] have been omitted.*
*[[Anathema Device]] is American and from a wealthy family (thanks to her ancestors prophecies).
*[[Aziraphale]] and [[Crowley]] appear to the Dowlings as a nanny and gardener but not as tutors in later years.
*[[Warlock Dowling]]'s birthday scene was shortened without the jelly/gun incident.
*[[The Them]] do not use a dunking stool when pretending to be inquisitors, a tyre swing is used instead and [[Wensleydale]] replaces [[Pepper]]'s sister.
*The third episode contains a segment that gives greater detail to Aziraphale and Crowley's past, showing them meeting at various points of history and in different areas of the world.
*The rain of fish is absent.
*Additional characters that were not present in the book such as the angels and historical figures have been added.
*Crowley's Holy Water was given to him by Aziraphale.
*[[Hastur]] personally meets Warlock Dowling on the {{wp|Tel Megiddo|Megiddo Plains}} where he discovers that he is not the Antichrist.
*Some of [[Agnes Nutter]]s prophecies have been updated to fit with the time period and some additional prophecies have been added.
*In the final episode there is an additional sequence which shows how Aziraphale and Crowley deal with their respective sides after averting the Apocalypse.
*Inside Aziraphale's restored bookshop he finds several new {{wp|Just William (book series)|Just William}} books, a nod to the inspiration for [[The Them|The]] [[Talk:The Them|Them]].
<nowiki>*</nowiki>However a 'Regrettably Deleted Sequence' concerning these characters is present in the [[Book:The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book|script book]].
==Good Omens: Lockdown==
On May 1st 2020 a short voice-over vignette, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quSXoj8Kob0 'Good Omens: Lockdown'] was released on Terry Pratchett's Youtube Channel to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Good Omens, with David Tennant and Michael Sheen reprising their roles from the TV series. The short comprises of a phone-call between [[Aziraphale]] and [[Crowley]] who are isolating at home in accordance with government guidelines due to the {{wp|2019–20 coronavirus pandemic|coronavirus pandemic}}.
==Gallery==
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:GO TV.jpg|thumb|220px|Series Thumbnail]]
| valign="top" | [[File:GO TV DVD.jpg|thumb|120px|DVD Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:GO TV DVD 2.jpg|thumb|200px|Steelbook DVD]]
| valign="top" | [[File:GO TV Soundtrack.jpg|thumb|150px|Soundtrack Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:GO TV Vinyl.jpg|thumb|150px|Soundtrack Vinyl]]
|}
{|
|-
| valign="top" | [[File:Unholy Night.jpg|thumb|150px|Unholy Night Cover]]
| valign="top" | [[File:GO TEIN.jpg|thumb|120px|Promotional Image]]
| valign="top" | [[File:GO S2 Promo.jpg|thumb|140px|Promotional Image for season 2]]
|}


==External Links==
==External Links==
[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FMDLC2L?pf_rd_p=71cb17e9-f468-4d3f-94d5-a0de44c50a7e&pf_rd_r=398AAFWJMB5RW47CXYHC Good Omens on Amazon]
* [https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FMDLC2L?pf_rd_p=71cb17e9-f468-4d3f-94d5-a0de44c50a7e&pf_rd_r=398AAFWJMB5RW47CXYHC Good Omens on Amazon]
* [https://www.facebook.com/goodomensprime/ Facebook Page]
* [https://twitter.com/GoodOmensPrime Twitter Feed]
* [https://www.instagram.com/goodomensprime/ Instagram Account]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20191118055238/https://www.narrativia.com/good-omens.html Good Omens on Narrativia]
* [https://blankcorporation.com/projects/good-omens/ Good Omens on the Blank Corporation website]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quSXoj8Kob0 Good Omens: Lockdown]


[[Category:TV and Film|Good Omens]]
[[Category:TV and Film|Good Omens]]

Revision as of 23:23, 13 November 2022

Good Omens
DVD Cover
ASIN [1]
IMDB 1869454
First Broadcast 31st May 2019
Broadcast Channel Amazon Prime, BBC Two
Director(s) Douglas Mackinnon
Producer(s) Neil Gaiman, Caroline Skinner, Chris Sussman, Rob Wilkins, Rod Brown
Writer(s) {{{writer}}}
Starring Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Sam Taylor Buck
Duration 360 minutes
Episodes 6
Series Good Omens
Annotations Annotations for TV and Film:Good Omens
Notes
Preceded by Troll Bridge
Followed by The Watch
All data relates to the UK home release.

Good Omens is a tv series adaptation of the novel Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, created from a joint venture between Amazon.com, the BBC, Narrativia and The Blank Corporation. There were some other previous attempts to adapt Good Omens including a film that was to be directed by Terry Gilliam and a screenplay written by Neil Gaiman; however the series finally came about as a request from Terry to Neil soon before his passing, as it was a project that the two had wanted to see for a long time. The series also includes extra material added to the story from ideas that the authors had that did not make it into the book as well as ideas that could have been in a possible sequel.

On 29th June 2021 Neil Gaiman and Amazon Prime announced that a second season of Good Omens was in production; the plot of this season would be based off of notes written about a possible sequel to the book which had the working title of '668: The Neighbour of the Beast.'

Blurb

The End of the World is coming, which means a fussy Angel and a loose-living Demon who've become overly fond of life on Earth are forced to form an unlikely alliance to stop Armageddon. But they have lost the Antichrist, an 11-year-old boy unaware he's meant to bring upon the end of days, forcing them to embark on an adventure to find him and save the world before it's too late.

Cast

Supplementary Books

Two additional companion books were produced alongside the series:

Also The Definitive Good Omens contains some artwork inspired by the series.

The Chattering Order of St. Beryl

As a part of an advertising campaign for the series, The Chattering Order of St. Beryl launched a website and several social media accounts in order to count down to the Apocalypse.

Differences Between The Book And Series

Spoiler Warning

Some of the differences between the series and its source material include:

  • The episodes have narration provided by God.
  • Greasy Johnson and the Johnsonites are not mentioned.
  • The Four Other Riders Of The Apocalypse have been omitted.*
  • Anathema Device is American and from a wealthy family (thanks to her ancestors prophecies).
  • Aziraphale and Crowley appear to the Dowlings as a nanny and gardener but not as tutors in later years.
  • Warlock Dowling's birthday scene was shortened without the jelly/gun incident.
  • The Them do not use a dunking stool when pretending to be inquisitors, a tyre swing is used instead and Wensleydale replaces Pepper's sister.
  • The third episode contains a segment that gives greater detail to Aziraphale and Crowley's past, showing them meeting at various points of history and in different areas of the world.
  • The rain of fish is absent.
  • Additional characters that were not present in the book such as the angels and historical figures have been added.
  • Crowley's Holy Water was given to him by Aziraphale.
  • Hastur personally meets Warlock Dowling on the Megiddo Plains where he discovers that he is not the Antichrist.
  • Some of Agnes Nutters prophecies have been updated to fit with the time period and some additional prophecies have been added.
  • In the final episode there is an additional sequence which shows how Aziraphale and Crowley deal with their respective sides after averting the Apocalypse.
  • Inside Aziraphale's restored bookshop he finds several new Just William books, a nod to the inspiration for The Them.

*However a 'Regrettably Deleted Sequence' concerning these characters is present in the script book.

Good Omens: Lockdown

On May 1st 2020 a short voice-over vignette, 'Good Omens: Lockdown' was released on Terry Pratchett's Youtube Channel to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Good Omens, with David Tennant and Michael Sheen reprising their roles from the TV series. The short comprises of a phone-call between Aziraphale and Crowley who are isolating at home in accordance with government guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Gallery

Series Thumbnail
DVD Cover
Steelbook DVD
Soundtrack Cover
Soundtrack Vinyl
Unholy Night Cover
Promotional Image
Promotional Image for season 2

External Links