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Hello Neil,

you work with Amazon and BBC Studios.

Could you find out when Good Omens 2 will be shown on BBC, and when it will be released on DVD & blu-ray? It's been nearly a year since it was released! Thanks.

I don't know if it ever will be. The first series of Good Omens was made by the BBC with Amazon studios. The second season Amazon hired the BBC as a production studio to make it so it wasn't actually a BBC co-production.

I definitely thought it was going to be screened on the BBC but it looks like there are contractual issues that may be insurmountable. I would love to be wrong about this.

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This came in the mail today!!! (It had a LONG journey thanks to some USPS mishaps but it’s finally here)

If you don’t know the Golden Notebook, they sell signed Neil Gaiman books for the cost of the book itself, which is incredible. Also @neil-gaiman is incredible to sign for them. (Plus you’re supporting local and small businesses!)

I still hope to one day maybe go to an event of his or meet him, but til then I have this. Thanks to Good Omens my life has been changed beyond what I can honestly comprehend sometimes. Cause who knew (not me!) that two ethereal, (often) man shaped beings in love could help me figure out my own identity in my mid 30s! Given it was the show first for me, but it’s still Neil, and his words and characters for which I am forever grateful.

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*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free

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i wish i was famous in the 70s so i coulda gone on the muppet show and flirted with the muppets

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Here is the goggle doc on what to do! Even if you don’t need to live in New York, you can message the tourism board.

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Hi Neil, sorry to ask I tried looking it up but couldn’t find the answer, who is the voice of the tannoy in Hell during episode The Hitchhiker in S2? It’s not David is it? I couldn’t place it

Much love xxx

It's Paul Kaye doing his Terry Pratchett voice.

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BBC Studios is a part of the BBC that makes shows for other people, and brings in money that they use to make shows and supplement the license fee.

Hello Neil,

you work with Amazon and BBC Studios.

Could you find out when Good Omens 2 will be shown on BBC, and when it will be released on DVD & blu-ray? It's been nearly a year since it was released! Thanks.

I don't know if it ever will be. The first series of Good Omens was made by the BBC with Amazon studios. The second season Amazon hired the BBC as a production studio to make it so it wasn't actually a BBC co-production.

I definitely thought it was going to be screened on the BBC but it looks like there are contractual issues that may be insurmountable. I would love to be wrong about this.

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Neil,

you work with Amazon and BBC Studios.

Could you find out when Good Omens 2 will be shown on BBC, and when it will be released on DVD & blu-ray? It's been nearly a year since it was released! Thanks.

I don't know if it ever will be. The first series of Good Omens was made by the BBC with Amazon studios. The second season Amazon hired the BBC as a production studio to make it so it wasn't actually a BBC co-production.

I definitely thought it was going to be screened on the BBC but it looks like there are contractual issues that may be insurmountable. I would love to be wrong about this.

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Can I suggest that people order Joan and Kyle's book from their local bookstore?

This is an amazon link so you know what you are ordering.

The Neil Gaiman/Dagfinn sweater pattern is free on ravelry!

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‘Kill two birds with one stone’ in European languages.

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Hi Mr. Gaiman,

Would you suggest your work “The View from the Cheap Seats”? Do you believe it still holds up despite being written almost ten years ago?

It was published almost ten years ago. But much of it was written a lot longer ago than that. Some of the chapters were written decades ago.

I put in things I thought held up back then. I haven't changed my mind about them.

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Correct?

Close. The thing you assumed was a birch tree is actually a duck. There is, surprisingly, no cat in that picture.

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Hey there Neil. So sorry to bother you, but I need to genuinely ask, how do you handwrite and are able to read it after yourself? I have this trashy notebook where I write when I can't do it on my laptop, but my thoughts are faster than my hand and the writing always turns out absolutely horrid and most of the time I'm just unable to read it after myself. Thank you, have a lovely day.

Fountain pens. Ballpoints and pencils leave me unable to read what I wrote. Fountain pens I can read my writing.

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I work Summerscape at Bard, you and Gideon Lester have a very similar accent it jump scares me every time

We do sound incredibly similar. It never bothers me when I'm talking to Gideon (because i know which one of us I am) but there was a video we did about me teaching at Bard where you hear Gideon talking and I thought it was me.

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Hi Neil, sorry to ask I tried looking it up but couldn’t find the answer, who is the voice of the tannoy in Hell during episode The Hitchhiker in S2? It’s not David is it? I couldn’t place it

Much love xxx

It's Paul Kaye doing his Terry Pratchett voice.

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hey Neil, I hope you are having a good day. There's this question that's been bothering me for years. I never knew who to ask, or how, and I was always sure it's only me who experiences these things. And then I looked back at my favorite book of yours -good omens- and I thought, of course! Neil! He's the perfect guy to ask! So here it is.

You wrote good omens with Terry Pratchett. You know that already, sorry. Here's the thing.

Whenever I work on things with people, no matter who they are, friends or colleagues or strangers, I always have a hard time collaborating. It's hard for me not to be in control of the project. I actually love the idea of making things with other people, and sometimes I have the best time doing it, but the minute they bring up an idea they have that I don't agree with or like- I have a hard time. I can never bring myself to say "sorry, i don't really like that idea", i hate hate hate saying no to people, or hurting their feelings, so I end up nodding politely and we end up with a finished project I dont like.

When you were writing good omens with Terry, how did you do it? How did you collaborate and make something so successful? Did you just never disagree with anything he came up with?

If you end up seeing this, thank you very much. This is a life- long problem of mine.

I suppose that both Terry and I knew that seeing that we were making art and telling a story, there wasn't any right or wrong about what we were making. It was art and it was fun. My only goal was to make Terry laugh, his goal was to make me laugh. With a subgoal of Get to the next Good Bit In The Plot Before The Other One did.

I don't remember any disagreements or arguments, any more than you see disagreements and arguments in people doing Improv comedy. We both knew the book we were writing, and each day we'd talk on the phone, the aim being to make the other one laugh. When we did that successfully we knew we were heading in the right direction.

One reason i suspect we never actually wrote the sequel after plotting it is that it would have been a job and not just fun.

It sounds like your collaborations aren't any fun. Better you should do solo stuff.

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Hello Mr Gaiman ! It's always a been a treat, coming back to your tumblr once in a while. Thank you for everything you wrote, that you are writing, and will be writing. And for the cat identification system.

You are very welcome!