Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens,” wrote Gaiman, while Wilkins made the same point: “My job as executive producer on #GoodOmens is primarily to remind the world the book had TWO FECKING AUTHORS.” The novelist, who only agreed to adapt Good Omens after reading a letter sent posthumously to him by Pratchett giving him his blessing to do so, also reminded Variety that the book had two authors after the magazine’s headline referred to the book as “Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens”. Gaiman, who scripted all six episodes of the forthcoming series, which is co-produced with BBC Studios, wrote on Twitter after learning of the casting: “You go down to the bottom of the garden to write, and leave your phone behind, and then something like this happens.” And Terry would groan, as he would never use magic in the same way.” “Terry didn’t use magic as a get out of jail free card in his writing, and he felt that after David, Doctor Who used the sonic screwdriver as a way to get himself out of trouble. Pratchett had particularly enjoyed Tennant’s role as Doctor Who, Wilkins added. “I can’t begin to tell you what a fan he was of David and Michael … He’d be looking down now and would be so incredibly pleased.” We’d already talked about our dream Aziraphale and Crowley, and David Tennant was there,” Wilkins told the Guardian. “I swear to god, Terry would be absolutely over the moon.
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