Everything is awesome, the world is a wonderful place, and things will be OK:
Amazon has confirmed Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens will be adapted into a TV series to air next year.
It’s appropriate timing as the 1990 novel is set in 2018. Something of a dream collaboration among sci-fi fans, it’s a comedic tale of an angel and a demon who try to stave off the Apocalypse, having decided they enjoy life among humans too much. There’s also a mix-up about the true identity of a young boy identified as the Antichrist.
Ignore the petulant whining from the BBC about the state of the universe: clearly a world where Good Omens is coming to the screen isn’t a horrible place. By freaking definition, in fact. Comes out in 2018, six part series, don’t know who is directing or starring in it yet. And I do not care.
TV can make anything suck, so I will reserve judgement, but I will also say that the fact that TV would undertake the project is a sign of universal benevolence, and I am hopeful that the human surrogates of said benevolence are equal to the task…. In other words, “God, please don’t let it suck!”
The Beeb have done .. not terribly .. in the past.
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Their Zaphod Beeblebrox, Mark Wing-Daley, was far more watchable than Sam Rockwell’s, for one example.
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That said .. yeah, the nerd’s prayer is appropriate. “Please, deity of Moe’s choice, don’t let it suck!”.
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Mew
The only other thing that was ever as entertaining to me as “Good Omens” was “The Whiteboard when I first discovered it (on our host’s recommendation, iirc) and had ten years of archives to read. I spent a week laughing out loud to the point people thought I was losing my mind or something 😀
Did I? I have no memory of this. 🙂
Perhaps not a direct recommendation to me, but I think I checked it out because you spoke highly of it, at least? Perhaps in connection with “Schlock Mercenary”, since Doc had cameos in a couple of strips back in the day? If you say good things about something, I’m gonna check it out….