Hi! We are currently watching Good Omens with my spouse for third time in row and enjoying it immensely!. As big fans of the blacker humour in the book we were wondering what happened to the shooting scene at Warlock's birthday? It's in the script book and there's even a shot of a guard pulling a long handkerchief from his coat's pocket (sending the gun to fly amidst the guests soon) in the TV Companion. What were the reason for that delicious scene to be left out?

Pacing and how it worked, basically. It was shot. It was good, but not necessarily great, and it confused people. When we snipped it out and went straight to the flung cake the whole thing worked better. So we reluctantly let it go.