Good Omens BBC Radio Adaptation!

[bratty_jedi]

OMG, y'all!! There's going to be a BBC Radio adaptation of Good Omens! Hooray!!

Armageddon tale Good Omens, written by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, is set to be adapted for radio for the first time.

The six-part drama, which will star Mark Heap and Peter Serafinowicz, will air on BBC Radio 4 in December.
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[bratty_jedi]

Hooray for shared excitement! I like that you thought of me first :)

I don't care much for the cast atm
I don't have overly strong feelings on the cast. It isn't anywhere near as wowing as the Neverwhere cast, but that's a pretty high bar to have to clear. I like Peter Serafinowicz quite a bit. He isn't an automatic match for Crowley in my head, but I can see how he could pull it off, especially audio-only. I don't have much of an opinion, good or bad, on anyone else. I'm curious who everyone is playing since I haven't seen a full actor-to-character list.

Also, the cartoon about the writing process is priceless! Xd Although, to be honest, Terry Pratchett can do pretty good plot, too, if he wants to make it the focus...
Absolutely! The cartoon is definitely just meant as a silly joke. I think the general story on the actual writing of Good Omens is they both very much contributed equally to plot and jokes with PTerry mostly doing Adam and Them, Gaiman mostly doing the Horsemen, and they traded off most everything else. Then they also rewrote and footnoted each others stuff pretty heavily and wove it all together with PTerry taking a bit more lead as he could put in the time on it while Gaiman was still on the pretty demanding Sandman writing schedule. I think.