donewithstyle-deactivated202301 asked:

I'm very aware I might get "Wait and See" 'd on this, but I'll try my luck. Was it an intentional choice that we never saw what was across the street from the bookshop in Series 1, where the mysterious pub from your first picture tweet is now?

neil-gaiman answered:

More or less. Our first set, built on a disused airfield in Bovingdon, only existed from Aziraphale’s shop on. There was nothing over the road, which was why you never saw it. We would have had to create something in the computer for you to see.

The current set, in a studio in Bathgate, was built after the scripts were written for Season 2, which meant that I could say to Michael Ralph, the production designer, things like, “We’ll need a pub, a magic shop, and I thought we could put a French Restaurant over the road…” and he could incorporate all of those things in his initial plans, so we now get, essentially, the street south of Aziraphale’s bookshop, and not just the street to the north.

We’ve actually seen the pub before, or at least the back room – it’s the Dirty Donkey pub, as seen in 1967.

And you’ll get to enter places in Soho you’ve only seen from outside until now, like the coffee shop over the road.