How much of a hand did you personally have in the casting? I can't think of a single character where it's not spot on. My dad and I have been loving this amazing series! Big fans of you and Terry Pratchett. Would be interesting to know what your fave scene is too (book or series). Love from Reading!

I cast Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm and Nick Offerman personally, and insisted that Josie Lawrence reprise her role as Agnes Nutter from the Radio version. I went to see Michael McKean on Broadway planning to ask him to play Marvin the preacher, and asked him if he could do a Scottish Accent and if he’d come to the UK for a few months instead Beyond that, the casting was very mutual: Suzanne Smith was our casting director, and she worked closely with me and with Douglas Mackinnon the director. In the end the choices were always ours. Douglas suggested people he had worked with (like Lourdes Faberes, whom he had directed in Knightfall or Danny Mays, whom he had directed in Line of Duty) and I suggested people like Gloria Obianyo (I had seen her in Arturo UI at the Donmar, and thought she was brilliant) but they all auditioned and were our first choices. So I signed off on everyone.