Amazon Adapting Novel from Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

SEATTLE: Amazon Studios has greenlit a new limited comedy series event, Good Omens, based on Neil Gaiman’s and Terry Pratchett’s novel of the same name.

Set to debut in 2018 on Prime Video, Good Omens is a six-part series that has been entirely written by Gaiman (American Gods), who will also serve as showrunner. BBC Studios is co-producing the series with Narrativia and The Blank Corporation and in association with BBC Worldwide for Amazon Prime Video and the BBC.

Good Omens will be a global release and available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The show will also broadcast on the BBC in the U.K., following its premiere on Prime Video.

“Spanning not only the universe but also the entirety of time, Neil Gaiman has created a story that may be the largest ever told on television,” said Joe Lewis, the head of comedy and drama at Amazon Studios. “We’re excited to be working with BBC Studios to bring Neil’s and Terry Pratchett’s incredible book to life and to Prime members everywhere.”

Gaiman said: “Almost 30 years ago, Terry Pratchett and I wrote the funniest novel we could about the end of the world, populated with angels and demons, not to mention an 11-year-old Antichrist, witchfinders and the four horsepeople of the Apocalypse. It became many people’s favorite book. Three decades later, it’s going to make it to the screen. I can’t think of anyone we’d rather make it with than BBC Studios, and I just wish Sir Terry were alive to see it.”

Chris Sussman, the head of comedy at BBC Studios, said: “Good Omens has always been one of my favorite books, and it’s hugely exciting not just to be able to bring it to life, but to do so with scripts from Neil Gaiman himself. It feels like a good time to be making a comedy about an impending global apocalypse.”