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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…

Bodyguard and Line of Duty producer Priscilla Parish is to become the head of drama at the BBC’s commercial production arm BBC Studios. Parish will take up the newly created role in November, joining from World Productions where she was an executive producer and head of development. Parish will report to Ralph Lee…

A dark, playful, time-traveling series of massive scope, Good Omens was a "universe-sized show" in need of a universe-sized score, composer David Arnold explains. A miniseries created by Neil Gaiman—based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett—the series centered on an angel and a…