I can't find any thread about this, but it's set to premiere on Amazon Prime next year. A trailer was released at the New York Comic Con.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZSXlNRRoGU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZSXlNRRoGU)
Very excited to see this one.
Thanks for posting this: looks exciting. It was so long ago that I read this (I expect it was 28 years ago) that I have almost no idea what it's about beyond what I just saw in the trailer. Probably time for a re-read.
Now that it's finally here, anybody watching?
I'm a big fan of the book, and I watched the first one last night - thought it was very good
The casting of Tenant & Sheen is perfect, my only tiny criticism is that rather than making changes to adapt it to a visual medium, there's a lot of narration in which God (Frances McDormand) just reads Pratchett & Gaiman's prose.
I binged it at the weekend: very enjoyable - reminiscent of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in the sense that there's a lot of silly asides.
The BBC review (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190521-tv-review-good-omens) points out that because the central pairing is so well acted and their shared dilemma so intrigues, almost every other scene and character suffers in comparison.
They probably could have done more with the other characters, but they were mostly likeable, or likeable unlikeable, when they were meant to be.
I enjoyed that a lot.
Finished it last night - my wife can be considered the fan, as she loves Neil Gaiman and anything he does, and she loved it. I'll be honest and say that I've never read the books so went in fresh - and I enjoyed it too. Drags a little in places, but overall a good romp.
I really enjoyed Michael Sheen and David Tennant as Aziraphale and Crowley respectively. Sheen especially made it worthwhile for me.
I read the book years ago, and it didn't make a massive impression on me at the time. However, we chained this on the weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Sheen and Tennant are the highlights.
Loved it!
Tennant for Sinister!
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I'm halfway through the series (I find it too dense for binging, but it's a perfect one-a-night show) and whilst I don't mind a bit of intro before the credits, ep 3 was taking the piss - I checked the timer and it was over half way through the show before the credits ran - I thought I'd accidentally skipped to the next episode.
haha we thought that was really odd as well
Oh yeah - I was coding up some stuff whilst half-watching half-listening to the episode and that blew my mind a bit. I couldn't figure out if the episode had skipped or if time had warped ... it just turned out to be an intro the length of a normal tv show.
++Threadjacking Interlude++
Talking of long intros... (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190407-the-most-iconic-long-song-intros-in-pop-music)
Anybody else notice who did the storyboarding?
Ex of this parish, Mike Collins (https://twitter.com/MIKECOLLINS99/status/1103296801661173760)
20,000 Christians have petitioned Netflix to cancel this show. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48718038) Netflix have apparently agreed.
There you go, petitions work, we'll have a Dredd Sequel by Tuesday.
Netflix cancelled it?
Or decided that there is no mileage in trying to continue a story beyond what Gaiman and Pratchett originally wrote?
TBH I haven't quite got to the end of it yet but it looks like it was only ever going to be one series anyway.
Plus ... Amazon not Netflix ...
I reckon Pratchett is chuckling in his grave.
Quote from: Tjm86 on 23 June, 2019, 02:32:06 PM
Netflix cancelled it?
Tongue firmly in cheek. As you say, this is an Amazon series.
I liked the way Amazon then said they'd cancelled Stranger Things in retaliation.
Quote from: von Boom on 04 June, 2019, 02:36:08 PM
I really enjoyed Michael Sheen and David Tennant as Aziraphale and Crowley respectively. Sheen especially made it worthwhile for me.
^^^ this.
Thought the ending a bit of a cop out/expected/usual teen thing, I had hoped for a takeover of Heaven/Hell or some such, rather than the stock ending we got.
Couldn't get past episode one
Loved the audio book too & also the radio 4 adaption but you're still using your imagination for radio. So after having read the book so many times over so many years - it was going to be hard for me to access
My friend thought the whole thing should have been done in the beginning titles - as a cartoon
Finally got around to watching. Utterly smitten, just the bit of brevity of fun I needed right now and a show I can see returning to many times. Quiet wonderful.