“Good Omens” Limited Series Greenlit By Amazon

Good Omens, the hilarious collaboration between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is finally coming to the screen via Amazon Prime.

Legendary among the nerd set, the 1990s era comedy novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch has long been a project that fans had hoped to see come to the small screen. Even as Discworld and American Gods has wound their ways towards TV adaptations the semi-unfilmable apocalyptic novel has sat on the shelf.

Until today.

Gaiman himself warned that something was in the air earlier today on twitter.

And now it can be told. According to a press release from Amazon this morning, their next major in house development project will be bringing the book to the small screen.

"Amazon Studios today announced it has greenlit Good Omens, an hour-long limited comedy series based on Neil Gaiman’s(American Gods) and Terry Pratchett’s (Colour of Magic) acclaimed novel of the same name. Set to debut in 2018 on Prime Video, Good Omens is a six part series that has been entirely written by Gaiman, who will also serve as Showrunner. BBC Studios is co-producing the series with Narrativia and The Blank Corporation and in association with BBC Worldwide for Amazon Prime Video and the BBC."

The fact that they are doing it in tandem with the BBC is a fabulous development. The BBC has, in recent years, been reaching out to do these sorts of partnerships with channels like HBO and STARZ.

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"Neil Gaiman, writer, said: “Almost thirty years ago, Terry Pratchett and I wrote the funniest novel we could about the end of the world, populated with angels and demons, not to mention an eleven-year old Antichrist, witchfinders and the four horsepeople of the Apocalypse. It became many people’s favourite book. Three decades later, it’s going to make it to the screen. I can’t think of anyone we’d rather make it with than BBC Studios, and I just wish Sir Terry were alive to see it.”"

The synopsis, via Amazon, is as follows:

"Good Omens takes place in 2018 when the Apocalypse is near and Final Judgment is set to descend upon humanity. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch (the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, and tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth’s mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming war. And… someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist."

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Good Omens will be out next year on Amazon Prime and on the BBC. You can bet the shape of the M-5 we’ll be recapping.