# Neil Gaiman is turning Good Omens into a six-part TV series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284 "2016-04-15T17:32:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/1 "2016-04-15T17:32:25Z")
[Link.](http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/15/11438592/good-omens-tv-adaptation-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett) Cool. Hope they don’t muck it up. The book was one of the funniest things I’ve read. > [@](#): > > NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One Shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Wichfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system: > Two farthings = One Ha’penny. Two ha’pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea. > The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated. And > [@](#): > > English Burger Lords managed to take any American fast food virtues (the speed with which your food was delivered, for example) and carefully remove them; your food arrived after half an hour, at room temperature, and it was only because of the strip of warm lettuce between them that you could distinguish the burger from the bun. The Burger Lord pathfinder salesmen had been shot 25 minutes after setting foot in France. [_Good Omens_ quotes.](http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/good-omens.html) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/2 "2016-04-15T17:37:08Z")
I’m already devoting too much mental energy to not worrying about whether they’re going to muck up \*Sandman \*or _American Gods_ to not worry about whether they’re going to muck up _Good Omens_. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/3 "2016-04-15T19:04:34Z")
Cool. I can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/4 "2016-04-15T20:20:36Z")
1. Cool hat. B. 6 parts? They’d better be 2 hour blocks then. #. Benedict Cumberbatch would make a good Aziraphale. ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/5 "2016-04-15T20:37:26Z")
My mind’s eye always had Rowan Atkinson as Crowley and Stephen Fry as Aziraphale. They’ll be cheaper and more available than Cumberbatch too! I can see this being pretty good, mostly because I can see Gaiman taking utmost care due to not wanting to let Terry down. Where on his own work, he might see compromise to get it to screen as viable, I can see him really wanting to get Good Omens spot on. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/6 "2016-04-15T21:03:38Z")
> [@Cumbrian](#): > > My mind’s eye always had Rowan Atkinson as Crowley and Stephen Fry as Aziraphale. They’ll be cheaper and more available than Cumberbatch too! Stephen Fry for Aziraphale, yes, but Colin Farrell for Crowley. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/7 "2016-04-15T21:10:29Z")
> [@Cumbrian](#): > > My mind’s eye always had Rowan Atkinson as Crowley and Stephen Fry as Aziraphale. [That works.](http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcv6eO1k71qk4wxd.gif) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/8 "2016-04-15T23:10:29Z")
Both are too old for the parts these days. Ageless creatures or not. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/9 "2016-04-16T00:22:52Z")
Jonathan Rhys Meyers should play both roles. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/10 "2016-04-16T07:44:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > #. Benedict Cumberbatch would make a good Aziraphale. [Someone’s way ahead of you](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rie23Sqd1rtjdrlo1_500.jpg)…I like their choice of Crowley, too. Although, in _my_ headcanon, Crowley is always played by Gaiman himself. For some reason, Aziraphale is played by [James Dreyfus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dreyfus) (It may have been the “Gayer than a treeful of monkeys on Nitrous Oxide” line that did it) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/11 "2016-04-16T07:57:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I’m already devoting too much mental energy to not worrying about whether they’re going to muck up \*Sandman \* Stop worrying about that…switch to ‘resigned acceptance’… The direction New Line (who now holds the rights, due to some weird corporate shit) wanted to go was enough to prompt Joseph Gordon-Levitt to detach himself from the project and since his obvious fandom was half the reason people were optimistic… (The other half was that Neil himself was attached to it…that he hasn’t disavowed it, yet, so far as I know, is reason for cautious optimism, but since he was only an Executive Producer and thus probably not very involved…) ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neil-gaiman-is-turning-good-omens-into-a-six-part-tv-series/752284/12 "2016-04-17T19:18:38Z")
Robert Downey Jr. as both Aziraphale and Crowley. Though I could easily endorse MrDibble’s idea.