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Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga and James Bond's No Time to Die are just a handful of the productions that have been filmed in Scotland, and a new report confirms that TV and film is blossoming north of the border. Screen Scotland's report reveals that the industries contributed more than…

Douglas Mackinnon, director and exec producer of Amazon series Good Omens and Anansi Boys, has urged the upkeep of a “chain of productions” in Scotland, as landmark research finds the Scottish screen sector generated more than £500M ($613M) and created 10,000 jobs in 2019. Mackinnon, who has also directed episodes of L…

Amazon Prime Video has pledged £10M ($13.3M) on UK training initiatives over the next three years to help with the local skills pipeline. The streamer has joined with the UK’s National Film & Television School (NFTS) to fund 75 places for budding craft and technical workers on a course entitled Prime Video…

EXCLUSIVE: Cast has been set for season two of Amazon and BBC’s Neil Gaiman fantasy series Good Omens, which remains in production in Scotland. Reprising his role as Metatron is Derek Jacobi (Gladiator) and joining the cast for season two is his I, Claudius co-star Dame Siân Phillips (Dune). Also returning this season…

Jon Hamm is returning as Archangel Gabriel in Neil Gaiman's fantasy series Good Omens as the Amazon drama has added a pair of new angels and a character from hell. Liz Carr, who has featured in FX's Devs and BBC's Silent Witness, has signed on to play Saraqael, while Quelin Sepulveda, who is in Netflix's action…

Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon, the showrunner and director respectively of Amazon's Good Omens series, praised the burgeoning Scottish production sector during their masterclass at the Edinburgh TV Festival today. "You can make one of the biggest TV series in the world and you don't have to go to London anymore,"…

Michael Sheen and David Tennant are returning for a second season of fantasy drama Good Omens. Amazon has ordered a six-episode Season 2 of the drama adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's book Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. In what originally was meant to be a limited…

Neil Gaiman, the Good Omens and American Gods writer, has apologized after breaking Scottish lockdown rules by traveling from New Zealand to his home in Skye, Scotland, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. In a blog on his website last week, Gaiman revealed he made the 11,000-mile trip more than two weeks ago so…

You’re not the only one getting a tad stir-crazy from the pandemic lockdown. Apparently, even the damned and divine have their issues. The demon Crowley (David Tennant) and angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) from Amazon’s Good Omens have reunited for a quick telephone conversation that they shared with us on YouTube…

Good Omens has finally been handed a premiere date by the BBC. Nine months after the drama was released on Amazon, BBC Two will broadcast the six-part season on January 15, 2020. Based on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's eponymous book, the original plan was for Good Omens to land on the BBC this year, but it has…

EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has secured its first commission from Irish public broadcaster RTÉ — a noir thriller from The Spanish Princess and Mr Selfridge writer Kate O’Riordan. BBC Studios is partnering with Irish producer Treasure Entertainment to make Smother, a six-part series set on the rugged coast of County Clare…

Good Omens star David Tennant is to play infamous Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in an ITV drama from the makers of Sky and HBO’s Catherine The Great. New Pictures’ three-part miniseries, Des, is based on the Brian Masters book Killing For Company, in which the author cooperated with Nilsen to get inside the…