Geeks everywhere have long wished for a silver screen or TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's classic apocalyptic comedy, Good Omens. Now, it seems their prayers are answered. Well, sort of. For while we won't see Good Omens on screens any time soon, a new adaptation has been announced for Radio 4. And the cast list is incredible.
Good Omens will hit the airwaves in December. But I know what you're all thinking. Hayley, where's the press release? Well, my friends, you're in luck!
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky, the Four Horsepersons are assembling; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.
Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. In fact the prospect of Armageddon is all really rather inconvenient for them actually. But if they are to stop it taking place they’ve got to find and kill the one who will bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. There’s just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him….