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The Watch’s Magical Cast Of Cops And Criminals Is Getting Bigger
The BBC’s upcoming series The Watch based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books already has a rather robust cast playing a group of elite, though scrappy cops fighting to bring piece to their corrupt town where crime’s been legalised. But the show was clearly still in need of some proper villains to give its heroes adversaries…
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Good Omens’ Aziraphale And Crowley Have A Very Nice And Queer Thing Going On
“Hard Times,” the third episode of Amazon’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens, is unique among the miniseries’ six, tightly-packed episodes because it slows down for a breath to take a look back at Aziraphale and Crowley’s curiously long-lived friendship. It’s one that dates back to their early days as two of…
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Neil Gaiman Wishes Good Omens Didn’t Feel Quite So Close To Our Reality
In Amazon’s new adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, the actual impending Armageddon kind of takes a back seat to other elements of the apocalyptic story, in part because of the show’s understanding that we’ve all grown rather weary of the genre at a time when the world often feels as though…
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Neil Gaiman Talks The Responsibility He Felt To Get A Good Omens Adaptation Off The Ground
Recently, at SXSW, Neil Gaiman and the cast of Good Omens showed off some footage from the upcoming series and discussed its origins and shape. And according to Neil Gaiman himself, there was more to getting this work adapted than just his desire to see it unfold on the screen.