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First Look at David Tennant & Michael Sheen in 'Good Omens'

 

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Good Omens is on its way to the small screen, and the series' two stars are looking pretty fantastic in costume.

 

Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote the book with Terry Pratchett, recently shared a first look photo of David Tennant (Doctor Who, Jessica Jones) and Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) in costume for the series.

 

It is unknown exactly when Amazon's Good Omens series will premiere, although it's safe to assume that it will have a rather poignant 2018 release date.

 

The six-episode Amazon series will follow Aziraphale and Crowley, an angel and a demon who set out on a mission to locate the misplaced Antichrist in a near-apocalyptic 2018. Tennant will play Crowley, while Sheen will play the "somewhat fussy angel" Aziraphale. The pair were cast in the roles last month.

 

It is unknown exactly when Amazon's Good Omens series will premiere, although it's safe to assume that it will have a rather poignant 2018 release date.

 

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First look at John Hamm as Archangel Gabriel in Amazon's Good Omens

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 A great cast lined up, including Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, David Tennant as Crowley, and John Hamm as the Archangel Gabriel. In fact, here's our first official look at Hamm-as-Gabriel.

 

And here's what Gaiman had to say about Hamm:

 

Gabriel is everything that Aziraphale isn't: he's tall, good-looking, charismatic and impeccably dressed. We were fortunate that Jon Hamm was available, given that he is already all of these things without even having to act. We were even more fortunate that he's a fan of the books and a remarkable actor.

 

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 That's quite the coat!

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Almost time! 

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https://tvline.com/2019/02/13/good-omens-premiere-date-amazon-neil-gaiman/

May 31st.

Edited March 6, 2019 by RedRaven

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“Good Omens.” Amazon, May 31. Six episodes (all screened for review).

 

Like Starz’s “American Gods” before it, Amazon’s newest limited series attempts to adapt the philosophically lofty, theologically-infused work of British novelist Neil Gaiman. In his 1990 novel “Good Omens” (co-written with Terry Pratchett), an odd-couple angel and demon attempt to avert the apocalypse in order to continue enjoying their unusual partnership. Onscreen, this pairing — between a saintly being played by Michael Sheen and a fallen angel played by David Tennant, both seeking to save the world for their own reasons — is the best part of the new “Good Omens” limited series. But it’s not enough: This six-hour journey towards the end of time comes to feel grindingly slow by the end, more anticlimax than fight for Earth’s future.

 

It’s not a road without obstacles, though: The plot, here, is a mire, with the pair seeking to preserve their balance of power on earth by fighting off an Antichrist whose identity is, at first, concealed. We don’t know which child will bring about the end of days at first, thanks to a laborious game of three-card monte played with babies in a nunnery, one of whom will grow up to bring about the end of days — a device whose convoluted, showy nature gets at what makes “Good Omens” quite so frustrating. Much like “American Gods,” with its high-toned concept bearing little fruit in the way of plot or insight, this show feels above all relentlessly proud of itself, burnishing all it knows about religion and philosophy in service of a story that simply doesn’t move. To wit: One episode begins with a montage of Aziraphale and Crowley influencing humanity through history — at the building of Noah’s ark, at Shakespeare’s Globe. It’s a point that’s made so laboriously and repetitively that the opening credits drop some 28 minutes into the episode. Elsewhere, deities representing, say, War (Mireille Enos, doing her best) or Pollution (Lourdes Faberes) drop into and out of a story that didn’t strictly need them to bulk out its running time in the first place, and seems to have little real room for them as it stands.

 

Appetites for logic puzzles about the intentions of God and practices of worship will vary. After having known some philosophy majors my freshman year of college, such debates evoke in me a prickling desire to leave the room as soon as I can. But my openness to a show with two charming, underplayed performances at its center working through such a complicated thing as partnership with one’s ideological opposite was real, and it faded as the hours of increasingly exhausted showmanship and patter about religion wore on. In cramming in quite so much incident and varyingly successful attempts at humor, “Good Omens” traverses a great deal of ground. That it ends up saying so little feels like a missed opportunity.

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Season 2 has been approved

 

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‘Good Omens’ Renewed For Season 2 At Amazon

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Michael Sheen and David Tennant are returning for a second season of fantasy drama Good Omens.

 

Amazon has ordered a second, six-part series of the drama adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s book Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.

 

In what was originally meant to be a limited series, the actors will return as Aziraphale, a fussy angel and rare book dealer, and the fast-living demon Crowley, an unlikely duo that teamed up to save the world from the apocalypse.

The second season will begin filming later this year in Scotland.

 

The new season will explore storylines that go beyond the original source material; having been on Earth since The Beginning and with the Apocalypse thwarted, Aziraphale and Crowley are getting back to easy living amongst mortals in London’s Soho when an unexpected messenger presents a surprising mystery.

 

Gaiman, who has an overall deal with Amazon Studios, continues as executive producer and will co-showrun along with executive producer Douglas Mackinnon, who will also return to direct. Rob Wilkins, John Finnemore and BBC Studios Productions’ Head of Comedy Josh Cole will also executive produce, with Finnemore serving as co-writer alongside Gaiman.

 

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Michael Sheen and David Tennant were great together, but the rest of season one was hit or miss. Mostly leaning towards miss.

I'll give season two a try for them, but I hope the surrounding story is better this time.

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Prime Video's most surprising renewal of the past few years has come to fruition as the streamer has announced production has started on Good Omens season 2. A first-look photo from the set of stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant in the leading roles of the angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley was released to mark the occasion along with another photo from set by series creator and co-showrunner Neil Gaiman. Sheen and Tennant will be joined by much of the same cast from the original series which was based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's international best-selling novel, the new season will explore storylines that go beyond the original source material.

 

"I am so happy to be back here on the streets of Soho, watching, every day, the glorious performances of Michael Sheen and David Tennant," Gaiman said in a statement. "I miss having Terry Pratchett's genius, but it does feel like we are still all walking around inside his head. It's been an absolute pleasure to have the brilliant John Finnemore co-write this season's story shenanigans with me, and to work with director and my co-showrunner Douglas Mackinnon as he steers the ship, along with our astonishing crew, who have returned to do it again. In this season we get to have new adventures with old friends, to solve some extremely mysterious mysteries, and we encounter some entirely new humans (living, dead, and otherwise), angels, and demons. We were lucky in the first season to have so many outstanding actors taking part, so I took pleasure in inviting people back, wherever we could, some in the roles they played originally, some in new parts written just for them."  

 

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Wonder if Terry Pratchett had contributed to a second book idea at all 

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