Good Omens

2019 fantasy comedy TV series

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February 2025 Filming of the final, feature-length episode of Good Omens concluded.
January 2025 Filming of the final, feature-length episode of Good Omens began.
2024 Michael Sheen wins the Tell-Tale TV Awards for Favorite Performer in a Sci-fi / Fantasy / Horror Series.
2024 Good Omens is nominated for the GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and wins the Tell-Tale TV Awards for Favorite Sci-fi / Fantasy / Horror Series.
October 2024 Neil Gaiman announced to be leaving the production, with the third series reduced to a single 90-minute episode.
September 2024 Production of the third series paused following multiple sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman.
2023 Good Omens receives a Saturn Awards nomination for Best Fantasy Television Series and wins the Comedy.co.uk Award for Best TV Comedy Drama.
2023 Second series of Good Omens was released, continuing the supernatural comedy adventures of Aziraphale and Crowley.
December 2023 Series renewed for a third and final season.
July 2023 Neil Gaiman discussed the possibility of a third series, which was planned to be the final series, though writing was affected by the Writers Guild of America strike.
July 28 2023 Second series of Good Omens released in its entirety on Amazon Prime Video.
2021 Filming for the second series of Good Omens began in Scotland later in the year.
June 29 2021 The series was renewed for a second season, consisting of six episodes.
2020 Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon win the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.
2020 David Tennant wins the Scottish Comedy Award for Best Actor.
2020 Good Omens wins multiple Tell-Tale TV Awards, including Favorite Limited Series, with Frances McDormand and David Tennant winning acting awards.
May 1 2020 David Tennant and Michael Sheen release a 3-minute YouTube short 'Good Omens: Lockdown', imagining their characters during COVID-19 pandemic.
February 19 2020 Completion of Good Omens weekly broadcast on BBC Two.
January 15 2020 Good Omens begins weekly airing on BBC Two in the UK, continuing until February 19, 2020.
2019 Good Omens TV series receives multiple award nominations, including Saturn Awards for Best Streaming Science Fiction, Action, & Fantasy Series and acting nominations for David Tennant and Michael Sheen.
2019 Neil Gaiman wins the Nebula Award's Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation for the episode 'Hard Times'.
2019 Good Omens wins Comedy.co.uk Awards for Best TV Comedy Drama and Best Comedy of the Year.
2019 Claire Anderson receives an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes for Episode 3, 'Hard Times', highlighting her exceptional costume design work for the Good Omens TV series.
2019 Good Omens first television series premiered, adapting Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel about an angel and demon preventing the apocalypse.
May 31 2019 First series of Good Omens released in full on Amazon Prime Video, featuring Michael Sheen and David Tennant in the lead roles.
March 2019 Amazon Prime hosts a Good Omens 'Garden of Eden' Party at SXSW in Austin, Texas, with cast and crew appearances, early episode screening, and themed entertainment.
February 13 2019 Neil Gaiman announced that Benedict Cumberbatch would voice Satan, with the character to be created using computer-generated imagery (CGI).
October 6 2018 Good Omens holds a panel at New York Comic Con, moderated by Whoopi Goldberg, featuring Neil Gaiman, Douglas Mackinnon, and cast members. First series trailer premiered.
July 20 2018 Frances McDormand was cast as the voice of God and the series' narrator during Amazon's San Diego Comic-Con panel.
March 2018 Principal photography for the first series concluded after filming in various UK locations including London, Surrey, and Cape Town, South Africa.
March 6 2018 Nick Offerman was announced as a series regular.
February 9 2018 Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss joined the series.
December 15 2017 Derek Jacobi was reported to voice the Metatron in the series.
November 2017 Reece Shearsmith and Nicholas Parsons were reported to have been cast.
October 2017 Production filmed in Surrey and shot Agnes Nutter's burning at the Weald and Downland Living Museum over a two-day period.
October 2017 Jon Hamm, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mireille Enos, Lourdes Faberes, and Yusuf Gatewood joined the main cast.
September 18 2017 Principal photography for Good Omens TV series begins, spanning a six-month period of 109 total filming days across the UK and South Africa.
September 18 2017 Principal photography for Good Omens TV series began, spanning a six-month period of 109 total filming days across the United Kingdom.
September 15 2017 Jack Whitehall, Michael McKean, Miranda Richardson, and Adria Arjona were announced as series regulars.
September 14 2017 Neil Gaiman revealed on Twitter that Nina Sosanya, Ned Dennehy, and Ariyon Bakare had joined the main cast.
August 14 2017 Michael Sheen and David Tennant were announced as the lead actors, playing Aziraphale and Crowley respectively in the Good Omens TV series.
January 19 2017 Amazon Prime Video and BBC officially commissioned the television series adaptation of Good Omens, with Neil Gaiman set to adapt the novel and serve as showrunner.
2011 A television series adaptation of Good Omens, written by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott, was first reported to be in development, though no further plans were announced.

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