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kallij asked:

Good day, Neil, I'm really getting super excited about Good Omens. I do have a Prime membership but I already spend all day at a computer for work so I can't bring myself to watch shows that way, and my TV isn't configured for streaming. How long before I can buy it on Bluray/DVD and please tell me I won't go mad in the interim like I did American Gods? Cheers!

I don’t know I’m afraid. Have you thought of getting an HDMI cable, and streaming it from your computer to your TV?

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patolozka asked:

Dear Mr. Gaiman, please could you tell us what happened to Crowley´s wings? Because I really loved the idea that: "Contrary to popular belief, the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels, although they're often better groomed." So is there a reason to change that in show? Thank you

We only get to see two sets of wings in Good Omens, Crowley’s and Aziraphale’s. They are both beautiful and feathery, although Crowleys are, I think, better-groomed. Crowley’s are black feathers, and Aziraphale’s are white. 

I assumed that the wings of demons in “popular belief” would be more like this…

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obeekris asked:

The "American Gods" TV series is quite a departure from the book. Are you able to say anything about how closely "Good Omens" will follow the book, or if there are going to be significant departures there as well? Either way, very much looking forward to it. Thank you!

In American Gods, the various showrunners have opened the book up, into an ongoing TV series.  With Good Omens, I did my best to tell the story of the novel in 6 episodes. There are Easter Eggs that only exist for the readers, and then there are plot twists that exist to stop the readers getting too complacent…

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red-pen-revolution asked:

Mr. Gaiman, I've never read Good Omens (and will likely not be able to find the time), but I love so much of your other work so I'm sure I'll enjoy this. However, having never read the book, will it spoil the book to see the series first? Or rather, is the adaption faithful enough that reading the book would feel like a play by play of the show?

It’s not something like Rosemary’s Baby, where if you’ve seen the film, you’ve read the book, and vice versa. The book and the TV show of Good Omens complement each other, I think. Or I hope.

One’s the book, the other is the TV series version. Things that are only mentioned in passing in the book are seen on screen in detail while things that exist in the book in detail may only get a nod, or not even that.

If you get a chance to read the book between now and May 31st, then take it. You’ll smile at things that people who haven’t read the book will miss.

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vodkasquip asked:

If given the chance, would you play with the Rock Bottom Remainders, and if so what would you play?

When given the chance, about 17 years ago, I played Kazoo. I blogged about it at the time.

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Neil Gaiman’s Journal

The Rock Bottom Remainders were great. I mean, they weren't great great. They were people having much too much fun great, which is a completely different kind of great, ranging as it does from bar-band to Langley Schools Music Project. But there were about 700 people in there having fun watching them. 

“By the way. They want to know if you’ll go up on stage with them for the final number,” said Merrilee, who had Spoken To Someone. 

“No,” I said. “Absolutely not. Nope. Uh-uh. Won’t happen." 

"They said they’d call you up from the audience for Gloria. I said you’d be delighted." 

"No! Never! No! Argh!" 

Merrilee will tell you that this conversation is not true and that I did say yes when she asked me, eventually. Who are you going to believe? An agent you’ve never even met? Or me? 

Exactly. So I kind of said yes, eventually, and Merrilee didn’t say to the people "Well, he kind of said yes, eventually, but I think he’d rather have his toenails gnawed off by weasels” which would have been what I pay her the big bucks for, no, she said “Oh he’d love to. He’d be delighted. Nothing could give him greater pleasure." 

I think I thought they’d forget about me, but at the end of the gig, after Amy Tan had done "These Boots Are Made For Walking” and flogged people, and after they’d put on the Tinsel Halos for Steve King to sing “Teen Angel” someone shouted “And will Neil Gaiman get on up here,” and so I walked up on the stage. 

(“I’m wearing shades,” I thought, possibly insanely. “No-one will ever know it’s me.”) 

We sang “Gloria”. It’s spelled G-L-O-R-I-A, in case you were wondering. That being the final song we got off stage. The crowd stomped and yelled for more. 

“Louie Louie!” shouted Dave Barry or Steve King or somebody, “Go!” and we hurried back onto the stage. 

This time I grabbed a kazoo. As the Rock Bottom Remainders thundered into “Louie Louie”, it was pretty obvious to me that the whole of the audience was thinking the exact same thing. This being: “Gee, for a guy who was having difficulty spelling Gloria correctly only a couple of minutes ago, that new guy in the leather jacket has pretty much figured out which end of the kazoo you hum the bass part of "Louie Louie” into.“ 

The end, tumultuous applause. As I had thought, it was the much "too much fun” kind of great. 

I suspect that this may have been my last hurrah as a rock and roll idol, but just in case I pocketed the kazoo. Well, you never know. 

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daisyfairy1 asked:

Hi. I am very much looking forward to your Good Omens series, all the trailers and promos look amazing. From what I have seen it looks like my children would love to watch too, but I was just wondering if there are any bits that I should watch out for as potentially not suitable for younger viewers. Thank you.

I tried to make something that would work as well for those under, say, twenty as it would for those over. So it has two shots of naked people seen from behind (one in the Garden of Eden, one in a Welsh commune). It has three swear words, each intentionally deployed, but nothing they won’t have heard if anyone around them has ever banged a thumb with a hammer. Beyond that, there’s the tragic murder of a cartoon bunny rabbit by a demon in episode 4, a lot of maggots in episode 5, and things get scary – although no scarier than you’d find in an episode of, say, Doctor Who, in episodes 5 and 6.