{"id":314808,"date":"2025-11-24T04:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/good-omens-is-going-beyond-the-book-thats-not-a-bad-sign-books\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:36:30","slug":"good-omens-is-going-beyond-the-book-thats-not-a-bad-sign-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=314808","title":{"rendered":"Good Omens is going beyond the book? That\u2019s not a bad sign | Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">I<\/span>n 2017, when Neil Gaiman first sat down in St James\u2019s Park, London, ready to start filming the television adaptation of Good Omens, his showrunner\u2019s chair collapsed under him. \u201cI thought, <em>that\u2019s not really a good omen<\/em>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2021\/06\/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">When Gaiman announced on Tuesday that the BBC and Amazon are making a second season of the hit show, moving beyond the novel Gaiman co-wrote with Terry Pratchett in 1990, <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2021\/06\/really-bloody-excellent-omens.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">his website collapsed under the sheer volume of traffic<\/a>. I\u2019d take that as, to quote Gaiman, a \u201creally bloody excellent\u201d omen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There are concerns out there about the fact that, unlike the first season, there is no published source material for the second. But Gaiman, who is staying on as executive producer and co-showrunner, has said the sequel will follow a storyline he and Pratchett dreamed up back in 1989, while they were attending a convention in Seattle and sharing a hotel room in order to save money. It was the middle of the night, recounts Gaiman, and neither of them could sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cSo we lay in our respective beds and having nothing else to do, we plotted the sequel to Good Omens. It was a good one, too. We fully intended to write it, whenever we next had three or four months free. Only I went to live in America and Terry stayed in the UK, and after Good Omens was published Sandman became SANDMAN and Discworld became DISCWORLD\u2122 and there wasn\u2019t ever a good time,\u201d writes Gaiman on his (now fully functioning) blog. \u201cBut we never forgot it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, felt pretty wrapped up at the end of Good Omens, in both the book and show. But I\u2019m not averse to finding out what happened next. As Gaiman has pointed out, we\u2019ll also be discovering what happened before.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"df130a7c-4519-48f9-80d2-190dcbcb3ad8\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-47fhrn\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:5,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - fun, with footnotes&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;df130a7c-4519-48f9-80d2-190dcbcb3ad8&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/dec\/15\/good-omens-by-terry-pratchett-and-neil-gaiman-fun-with-footnotes&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:10,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:3}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">And the world most definitely needs more of Crowley and Aziraphale. David Tennant and Michael Sheen have agreed to continue playing their respective demon and angel characters, and the show will begin filming later this year in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The second season will open in Soho, with the Apocalypse nicely thwarted, and \u201cone of the angels wandering through a Soho street market with no memory of who they might be, on their way to Aziraphale\u2019s bookshop,\u201d says Gaiman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Pratchett might not have a direct hand in this new series, but Rob Wilkins, who manages the Pratchett estate, has said the late author would have been delighted that a second season is under way: \u201cTerry and Neil always knew that Crowley and Aziraphale wouldn\u2019t remain content to appear in only one story, and long harboured plans to expand upon their adventures.\u201d So long live Aziraphale and Crowley. And, as ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/shortcuts\/2015\/mar\/17\/terry-pratchetts-name-lives-on-in-the-clacks-with-hidden-web-code\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">GNU Terry Pratchett<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, when Neil Gaiman first sat down in St James\u2019s Park, London, ready to start filming the television adaptation of Good Omens, his showrunner\u2019s chair collapsed under him. \u201cI thought, that\u2019s not really a good omen,\u201d he wrote. 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