#Jon Bentley

[ellariya]

I still can’t stop thinking about Crowley and his relationship with sunglasses.

I guess this moment right here was the first time Crowley took off his glasses. And he was trying to persuade Aziraphale that he really wanted to kill those children. And he didn’t put on his glasses after that for quite some time.

Like he wasn’t wearing glasses the whole time with Job’s children and when he was enjoying Aziraphale’s feast.

In season 1 Crowley was wearing glasses almost all the time. It fascinates me how close and intimate AziCrow became and how much they changed.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[ourflagmeansheartbreak]

Raise your hands if you didn’t know that Jon Hamm, the guy who plays Jim/Gabriel in Good Omens, set someone on fire during hazing In fraternity, and raise your other hand if you think we should TALK ABOUT IT

I mean I don’t like digging dirt or shit but hey this is literal ARSON

[midnight-star-world]

#CountryMusic

5-6-23 Billboard Country Music Airplay Chart

So today I will be bringing you the Top 20 Country Music Songs for the week of 5/6/23 from the Billboard Country Music Airplay Chart. So let's get started right now.

Number 20 belongs to Carrie Underwood who is new to the list this week - Hate my heart.

Number 19 belongs to Justin Moore & Priscilla Block who are new to the list this week - You, me, & whiskey.

Number 18 belongs to Joe Nichols who is staying in the same spot as last week - Good day for living.

Number 17 belongs to Jon Pardi who is moving up 2 spots this week - Your heart or mine.

Number 16 belongs to Shane Profitt who is staying in the same spot as last week - How it oughta be.

Number 15 belongs to Jordan Davis who is moving up 2 spots this week - Next thing you know.

Number 14 belongs to Old Dominion who are moving up 1 spot this week - Memory lane.

Number 13 belongs to Keith Urban who is moving 1 spot this week - Brown eyes baby.

Number 12 belongs to Cody Johnson who is dropping 1 spot this week - Human.

Number 11 belongs to Megan Moroney who is moving up 2 spots this week - Tennessee orange.

Number 10 belongs to Scotty McCreery who is moving up 2 spots this week - It matters to her.

Number 9 belongs to Dan + Shay who are moving up 1 spot this week - You.

Number 8 belongs to Morgan Wallen who is moving up 1 spot this week - One thing at a time.

Number 7 belongs to Hardy featuring Lainey Wilson who are dropping 5 spots this week - Wait in the truck.

Number 6 belongs to Corey Kent who is staying in the same spot as last week - Wild as her.

Number 5 belongs to Morgan Wallen who is moving up 3 spots this week - Last night.

Number 4 belongs to Tyler Hubbard who is moving up 1 spot this week - Dancin' in the Country.

Number 3 belongs to Parker McCollum who is moving up 1 spot this week - Handle on you.

Number 2 belongs to Dierks Bentley who is moving up 1 spot this week - Gold.

Number 1 belongs to Bailey Zimmerman who is staying in the top spot for another week - Rock and a hard place.

And that's a wrap for the Top 20 Country Music Songs for the week of 5/6/23 from the Billboard Country Music Airplay Chart. Thanks as always goes out to the Billboard Country Music Airplay Charts. And thanks as well goes out to you for taking the time to read this weekly list. See ya all next time.

[letsgofullpogue]

via ig - jonpdaviss

[ineffableandco]

A recap of the panel with Rob Wilkins at The Ineffable Con 4

- About the ending of S2/the kiss: he says that the scene blew his mind. It was not David & Michael but Crowley & Aziraphale. Everyone knew it was one of the most important scenes. There were 3-4 takes but the one we see is the only one that exists. He found the haunting look on Aziraphale’s face really emotional. He also said that he wasn’t prepared for the fandom’s reaction but finds it brilliant. He also said that Aziraphale’s expression meant “do it again”.

- His favourite side characters are Bildad, Mrs. Sandwich, Eric and the Dowlings.

- He was really excited to have David, Peter Davison and Ty on set. He wished he could have had a selfie with all of them.

- He says that Good Omens really is like a family.

- He loves the love and dedication fans show to Good Omens. He’s amazed by people who get tattoos.

- His favourite easter egg is the presence of Terry’s hat and scarf. Also, the copy of Good Omens that Jim is reading from is Rob’s copy.

- About red herrings: there are things in S2 that might become more or not if S3 happens. Rob also said that there are things in S2 we haven’t noticed yet.

- His favourite thing about Crowley and Aziraphale is the fact that they’re a unit.

- He genuinely doesn’t know anything about S3 happening or not but he’s hopeful because the sets are still there in Bathgate.

- He has a record of “Everyday” signed by David Tennant and Michael Sheen.

- He loves Jim and how Jon Hamm just went with it when playing him.

- He bought the S2 Bentley because if they were going to get new a Bentley, it was going to be him buying it

- He showed the license plate which he had right there

@neil-gaiman @theineffablecon

[thesherrinfordfacility]

Source

Transcript of main article under the cut:

THE RASCALLY DEMON Crowley (David Tennant) and the neurotic angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) put aside their differences to pull off one doozy of a Hail Mary and prevent an impending Apocalypse in Good Omens' first season. The task cemented the pair's unconventional friendship. So what are divine beings who have fallen out of grace with both Heaven and Hell to do for an encore?

The answer lies with archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm), who shows up unannounced on the doorstep of Aziraphale's London bookshop. Suddenly, Aziraphale and Crowley are caught up in a caper of biblical proportions- but also a more intimate tale.

"It's a mystery" showrunner Neil Gaiman tells SFX. "It kicks off a story that doesn't have giant consequences for the universe, even if it does have consequences for Aziraphale and Crowley. We have a lot of the marvellous Jon Hamm, who is the angel Gabriel and turns up at the beginning stark naked, carrying a cardboard box with no memory of who he is. In the same way, it is about Aziraphale and Crowley having to get involved with humanity in a way that they haven't before.

"They get dragged in slightly against their will to try to sort out the love life of Aziraphale's tenant," he continues. "Her name is Maggie (Maggie Service) and she runs the

record shop next to the bookshop. You'll see the coffee shop over the road, which is Nina's (Nina Sosanya). The relationship between Maggie and Nina is one that Crowley and Aziraphale try to fix, and mess up, because they are not good at human relationships, even if they can do miracles."

Truth be told, Gaiman never originally intended this arc to serve as Good Omens' second instalment. The TV series was based on Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's 1990 novel. The two collaborators had partially hashed out the details for a sequel to the fantasy comedy, late one night in a hotel room. This, however, is not it. Gaiman instead plotted a new narrative that could provide the connective tissue between the first season and a theoretical season three, if it happens.

"Because the hypothetical season three exists, there is a story that is there, and I didn't feel that we could drive straight from season one into that," Gaiman explains. "I knew what the stakes were. I knew what the parameters were. I also know that I had David and Michael. I had the angels from plot number one. I had demons from plot number one. And with anybody that I wanted to bring back, but didn't have room for right now, I did not have to bring them back as themselves.

"I had absolutely nothing for Madame Tracy to do in this plot, but I would be damned if Miranda Richardson wasn't going to be in this. She is one of my favourite people in the world. She is hilarious and is so good. And I knew I was going to have a new demon replacing Crowley as Hell's representative in London/the UK. Miranda's demon Shax is the best demon you could want."

It's late February 2012 and SFX is in Edinburgh for a set visit. A soundstage in Pyramids Studies has been transformed into a street in Soho. The visible local stores include the aforementioned book, coffee and record shops, as well as a magic establishment. In the middle of them all stand Aziraphale and Crowley, the latter in close proximity to his classic Bentley. It's close to the end of the six-episode season, so exactly what the duo is discussing constitutes a spoiler. We can say, however, that Aziraphale has picked up the pace. Time is of the essence as Shax marshals her forces to descend on Aziraphale's store and retrieve Gabriel.

"This is really Shax's first time out on Earth," Gaiman explains. "She is working very diligently and very hard in Hell for a long time. Now she is on Earth, trying to figure it all out. She's just discovering what Crowley has known for 6,000 years, which is that if you're a demon and come up with a brilliant plan to screw up the lives of humanity, people will get there first and do worse than anything you could have imagined! She's coming to terms with that.

"She is having to deal with the first crisis on her watch, as well, which is the disappearance of the archangel Gabriel from Heaven. It would be fair to say that by the end of the story, she is leading as much as she can get from Hell's requisition department - a legion of Hell - in an attack on a Soho bookshop."

When audiences catch up with Aziraphale again, he's enjoying his time among humans. He owns most of the block in a Soho neighbourhood, and he's meddling in Nina's love life. Meanwhile, Crowley has been living in his car, with his plants sitting on the back seat. He's grumpy about his current status quo, but frequently hangs out at Aziraphale's. The duo began as antagonists, but their history and blooming relationship will be fleshed out in flashbacks.

"One of the enormously fun things I came up with in the idea of minisodes," Gaiman explains. They are 25-minute-long episodes within the episode. We have three of them over our six episodes. Each of them is like one of those chunks of episode three (in season one). Whereas the longest one of those was four or five minutes, if that, these are full stories.

"You get to have the story of (put-upon Biblical figure) Job and you learn Aziraphale and Crowley's part in the story. Then writer Cat Clarke takes us to Edinburgh in the 1820s for a tale of body-snatching and attempted murder that the boys get involved in," he adds.

"Finally, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman reunite the League of Gentlemen in a Nazi-period story that takes place very shortly after the episode in the church. That one was the only one I said had to be there, because I fell in love with our Nazi spies in the church I kept thinking, "What would happen if they essentially came back as zombies with a mission from Hell to try and investigate whether or not Crowley and Aziraphale were actually fraternising?"

Gaiman admits that one of the greatest challenges has been filming Good Omens simultaneously with his upcoming show Anansi Bays. The two shoot within throwing distance of each other, but are both time-consuming endeavours.

"If I could go back in time, I would go back to 16 September 2020, when Douglas Mackinnon (co-producer) and I got the phone call from the Amazon bigwigs to say, "We have

good news for you and interesting news for you," Gaiman recalls. "'The good news is we are greenlighting both Good Omens and Anansi Boys. The interesting news is you are going to have to do them both at the same time.'

"I would go back to then and I would throw myself on the call and say, 'Neil, don't! This is unwise.' That we are doing them both together is great. The amount of sleep I am not getting is monumental and monstrous.

"It's a little bit like childbirth, in that I managed to forget all the things that drove me nuts about the first one. Having said that, I managed to fix all the things that really drove me nuts making season one which is great. We just have a whole new set of problems making season two."

[devildomwriter]

Have you ever thought about what names would the brothers adopt when theyre in the human world? Since they cant just go around with their demon names

I think about that a lot actually.

Their Human World Names

I think Lucifer would choose something similar like Lucious, Lucian, Lucas or “Luke” to mess with Luke

Mammon doesn’t have names too similar so he’d probably choose a name that starts with M and is around the same length like Matthew, Matteo, Manny, Mamoru, etc.

Leviathan has it easy because Levi is a fairly well known name and not know solely as a demon-related name. So he’d probably just go by Levi, or maybe Henry if he wanted to change things up.

Satan has a canonical nickname Sully, but he hates it so he’d probably go by Stan, Stanford, Stanley, or something very similar.

Asmodeus I’ve always thought would be a wonderful Amadeus, but he might choose something very random that he thinks sounds sexy or pretty like Ariel (actually the name of a fallen angel), Azalea, Aries, etc.

Beelzebub and Belphegor would want “twin names” names that just go together like Beel and Belphie do. They’d probably choose names that begin with “Ben” like Benjamin, Bentley, Ben, Benny, Benedict, and Bennett. I think Beel would choose Benedict because it reminds him of eggs and Belphie feels like a Benjamin to me.

Other than the brothers, Simeon, Raphael, Luke, Michael, and Solomon are also decently well known or not associated with demons. Though Simeon canonically also goes by Christopher.

Diavolo was once given the nickname Jon and he loved it so he might keep going by that or by a nickname like Dia, or Diablo, and Barbatos I feel would be a good Robert but he may choose something more similar like a name starting with "Bar" like Bartholomew, Bartley, or Barlas.

Thirteen, surprisingly enough is a human world female name although it’s not popular. And we all know Thirteen isn’t changing her name to blend in, she doesn’t care about that kind of thing,

Lastly, Mephistopheles also doesn’t feel like the type to want to change his name to a human one unless he thinks of it like he’s under cover. In that case he’d probably go for something German or similar to his name like Phelps, Pheles, or Phillips. May also go for a more obvious name like Faust or Faustus.

[fiercebb]

Good Omens season 2 but it's every time I exhale through my nose:

Wrong bench

Do they know?/The ducks?

Every scene involving Gabriel/Jim (Jon Hamm is a national treasure)

James. Long for Jim, short for Gabriel.

How's your naked man friend?

I...am...dusting!

You were right, you were right, I was wrong, you were right.

You do understand I'm threatening you?

Get humans wet and staring into each others eyes, vavoom, sorted.

Jane? Austen??

She had balls!!/Well...

Like killing innocent children to win a bet with Satan?

I think the point was, if you want answers, come back when you can make a whale.

Shoemaking and obstetrics. Those have always been the twin passions of Bildad the Shuhite.

I am a professional midwife/cobbler

Wow, it's like you've looked deep into my secret soul

What car?/Our car./We don't have a car./Of course we do. Isn't she a beauty?

Crowley slapping Aziraphale's hand away from the Bentley

I'm a human police officer

Cupperty

Inspector Constable

Every scene with Muriel (she is too precious for this world)

Don't you want to hear my plan? Or, you know, go by train.

I know for some members of the police force it's a bit of a hobby.

David Tennant's accents in episode 3

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

Was that a travel sweet??

Crowley throwing stacks of books around

Of course. Doctor.

You'll be one of those investigative reporters, no doubt.

The awning of a new age

Listen, when there's no hot water and two yellow lights on the boiler, what is that? (Miranda Richardson killed it as Shax)

You don't seem his type at all/Sassy eyebrow raise

Go on, mister British man, wow me with your miracles

They're the bee's knees

Azirapalala

Aziraphale speaking French

Is the book seller your bit on the side?

The seamstress scene

TOSTE

Staying behind to die bravely? Good on you.

I'm not actually, either. But thank you.

Crowley's heaven outfit

You're not helping, angel

[invisibleicewands]

Whether it’s playing heightened versions of themselves on their hit series Staged or preventing the apocalypse as everyone’s favorite ethereal couple, Michael Sheen and David Tennant are a duo for the ages. With a combined roster that includes just about every major sci-fi and fantasy franchise from Doctor Who to Twilight behind them, the two are beloved by fans the world over — all of whom are eager to see them return to screens when the second season of Good Omens hits Prime Video this month.

The two return in full form as Aziraphale and Crowley in season two of the Neil Gaiman-penned series, but now that they’ve prevented the apocalypse, the series is going in an all-new direction: beyond the constraints of the book, and into never-before-seen territory. What that means for the angel and demon is anyone’s guess, but it’s up to them to solve yet another heavenly mystery this time around: why the archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm) has lost his memory. Not an easy task, really, when Heaven and Hell are out to get the both of them, but the world’s at stake, leading the two into another adventure through time that explores friendship, love, and what it means to have faith.

Collider was excited to sit down with Tennant and Sheen prior to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike to discuss the new series and what it’s like going beyond the ending of the novel. During this conversation, we also discussed hopping through time with Aziraphale and Crowley, their favorite romantic comedies, and who they think is the better driver when it comes to Crowley’s beloved Bentley.

COLLIDER: I love this season, and one of my favorite parts of this season was that we get to see a little bit more of Aziraphale and Crowley through time, in addition to the main story. Did you guys have a favorite time period that you got to play in?

MICHAEL SHEEN: I love the 1940s stuff. I do really like that.

DAVID TENNANT: Yes, that is great, and getting to play with the zombies again. That was fun.

SHEEN: That was great, and, you know, I get to do some more magic.

TENNANT: Yeah, that was nice fun! That was nice fun.

SHEEN: That was my favorite.

I can imagine!

TENNANT: Yeah, it was great. I love the look of the 1860s one.

SHEEN: Yeah.

TENNANT: That's great. I loved that coat.

SHEEN: Yeah, it was very cold when we were filming that stuff.

TENNANT: Very.

SHEEN: So we got to have nice, warm costumes, which is always a plus.

TENNANT: But no, I mean, it's a sort of a never-ending joy to shoot, really, because you get all that variety within it as well. It's not just showing up in Aziraphale’s bookshop every day. Delightful, though, that! That’s beautiful, too.

SHEEN: Well, because this time the set, the SoHo bookshop set, was all built in the studio. So, on the first series, we only had a bit of it, and it was outdoors in some freezing cold airstrip somewhere that was miserable.

TENNANT: And even inside the bookshop would be blowing a gale, wouldn't it?

SHEEN: Yeah, but this time we were in a nice studio, and then there was this whole huge set with so much detail. All the shops are completely populated with all kinds of amazing things, so that was endlessly fascinating to be able to wander around there and look at all that. So, I loved all that. It's a very fun, very enjoyable show to work on, I’d say. We feel quite guilty about how enjoyable it is.

TENNANT: Yeah.

This season, as well, Aziraphale gets to drive the Bentley as well as Crowley. So, who do you think is the better driver?

TENNANT: I mean, don’t even.

SHEEN: Well, let's leave that up to the Bentley. Who does the Bentley like the most?

TENNANT: It’s not that at all.

SHEEN: And I think the evidence in the show is that it likes me the most.

TENNANT: But you've got to treat it in a certain way. You can't indulge it.

SHEEN: Treat you mean and keep ya keen!

TENNANT: Exactly. Well, that’s Crowley’s way, anyway. [laughs]

SHEEN: You’re dangerously close to that!

TENNANT: I’m not saying I condone any of that. But yes, it's true that the Bentley gets away from him, briefly, and that's very difficult for Crowley.

Additionally, you two, Aziraphale and Crowley, sort of worked together to, for lack of a better word, Four Weddings and a Funeral Maggie and Nina, the two fellow shopkeepers. So, I was curious, do you guys have a favorite romantic comedy?

TENNANT: Good question!

SHEEN: Ooh, When Harry Met Sally is a classic, isn't it? I think that's a modern-day classic.

TENNANT: I want to say It’s a Wonderful Life, but that doesn’t really count, does it? That’s not really a rom-com.

SHEEN: Something like Bringing Up Baby.

TENNANT: Yeah, Roman Holiday.

SHEEN: I grew up watching those Doris Day ones. That's always fun. And the Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal, people like that, when they did stuff together. What’s Up, Doc?

TENNANT: What's Up, Doc? I’m gonna go with What’s Up, Doc? Well maybe that’s more comedy than rom-com? That’s more com than rom. There’s a bit of rom in there, though, isn’t it?

SHEEN: [laughs] There’s definitely rom.

TENNANT: And an amazing car chase!

[ellariya]

I love this detail so much.

Aziraphale looks up to the sky thinking how badly he sinned. And then immediately looks down like a sad kitten.

He was genuinely afraid of being punished and he was so worried.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

SFX Magazine Issue 368, August 2023

THEY’RE BACK – AND THIS TIME THEY’RE IN ALL-NEW TERRITORY. NEIL GAIMAN TALKS RETURNING FOR SEASON TWO OF GOOD OMENS

THE RASCALLY DEMON Crowley (David Tennant) and the neurotic angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) put aside their differences to pull off one doozy of a Hail Mary and prevent an impending Apocalypse in Good Omens’ first season. The task cemented the pair’s unconventional friendship. So what are divine beings, who have fallen out of grace with both Heaven and Hell, to do for an encore?

The answer lies with archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm), who shows up unannounced on the doorstep of Aziraphale’s London bookshop. Suddenly, Aziraphale and Crowley are caught up in a caper of biblical proportions – but also a more intimate tale.

“It’s a mystery,” showrunner Neil Gaiman tells SFX. “It kicks off a story that doesn’t have giant consequences for the universe, even if it does have consequences for Aziraphale and Crowley. We have a lot of the marvellous Jon Hamm, who is the angel Gabriel and turns up at the beginning stark naked, carrying a cardboard box with no memory of who he is. In the same way, it is about Aziraphale and Crowley having to get involved with humanity in a way that they haven’t before.

“They get dragged in slightly against their will to try to sort out the love life of Aziraphale’s tenant,” he continues. “Her name is Maggie [Maggie Service] and she runs the record shop next to the bookshop. You’ll see the coffee shop over the road, which is Nina’s [Nina Sosanya]. The relationship between Maggie and Nina is one that Crowley and Aziraphale try to fix, and mess up, because they are not good at human relationships, even if they can do miracles.”

Truth be told, Gaiman never originally intended this arc to serve as Good Omens’ second instalment. The TV series was based on Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel. The two collaborators had partially hashed out the details for a sequel to the fantasy comedy, late one night in a hotel room. This, however, is not it. Gaiman instead plotted a new narrative that could provide the connective tissue between the first season and a theoretical season three, if it happens.

“Because the hypothetical season three exists, there is a story that is there, and I didn’t feel that we could drive straight from season one into that,” Gaiman explains. “I knew what the stakes were. I knew what the parameters were. I also knew that I had David and Michael. I had the angels from plot number one.

I had demons from plot number one. And with anybody that I wanted to bring back, but didn’t have room for right now, I did not have to bring them back as themselves. “I had absolutely nothing for Madame Tracy to do in this plot, but I would be damned if Miranda Richardson wasn’t going to be in this. She is one of my favourite people in the world. She is hilarious and is so good. And I knew I was going to have a new demon replacing Crowley as Hell’s representative in London/ the UK. Miranda’s demon Shax is the best demon you could want.”

It’s late February 2022 and SFX is in Edinburgh for a set visit. A soundstage in Pyramids Studios has been transformed into a street in Soho. The visible local stores include the aforementioned book, coffee and record shops, as well as a magic establishment. In the middle of them all stand Aziraphale and Crowley, the latter in close proximity to his classic Bentley. It’s close to the end of the six-episode season, so exactly what the duo is discussing constitutes a spoiler. We can say, however, that Aziraphale has picked up the pace. Time is of the essence as Shax marshals her forces to descend on Aziraphale’s store and retrieve Gabriel.

“This is really Shax’s first time out on Earth,” Gaiman explains. “She is working very diligently and very hard in Hell for a long time. Now she is on Earth, trying to figure it all out. She’s just discovering what Crowley has known for 6,000 years, which is that if you’re a demon and come up with a brilliant plan to screw up the lives of humanity, people will get there first and do worse than anything you could have imagined! She’s coming to terms with that.

“She is having to deal with the first crisis on her watch, as well, which is the disappearance of the archangel Gabriel from Heaven. It would be fair to say that by the end of the story, she is leading as much as she can get from Hell’s requisition department – a legion of Hell – in an attack on a Soho bookshop.”

When audiences catch up with Aziraphale again, he’s enjoying his time among humans. He owns most of the block in a Soho neighbourhood, and he’s meddling in Nina’s love life. Meanwhile, Crowley has been living in his car, with his plants sitting on the back seat. He’s grumpy about his current status quo, but frequently hangs out at Aziraphale’s. The duo began as antagonists, but their history and blossoming relationship will be fleshed out in flashbacks.

“One of the enormously fun things I came up with is the idea of minisodes,” Gaiman explains. “They are 25-minute-long episodes within the episode. We have three of them over our six episodes. Each of them is like one of those chunks of episode three [in season one]. Whereas the longest one of those was four or five minutes, if that, these are full stories.

“You get to have the story of [put-upon Biblical figure] Job, and you learn Aziraphale and Crowley’s part in the story. Then writer Cat Clarke takes us to Edinburgh in the 1820s for a tale of body-snatching and attempted murder that the boys get involved in,” he adds.

“Finally, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman reunite the League Of Gentlemen in a Nazi-period story that takes place very shortly after the episode in the church. That one was the only one I said had to be there, because I fell in love with our Nazi spies in the church. I kept thinking, ‘What would happen if they essentially came back as zombies, with a mission from Hell to try and investigate whether or not Crowley and Aziraphale were actually fraternising?’”

Gaiman admits that one of the greatest challenges has been filming Good Omens simultaneously with his upcoming show Anansi Boys. The two shoot within throwing distance of each other, but are both timeconsuming endeavours.

“If I could go back in time, I would go back to 16 September 2020, when Douglas Mackinnon [co-producer] and I got the phone call from the Amazon bigwigs to say, ‘We have good news for you and interesting news for you,’” Gaiman recalls. “‘The good news is we are greenlighting both Good Omens and Anansi Boys. The interesting news is you are going to have to do them both at the same time.’

“I would go back to then and I would throw myself on the call and say, ‘Neil, don’t! This is unwise.’ That we are doing them both together is great. The amount of sleep I am not getting is monumental and monstrous.

“It’s a little bit like childbirth, in that I managed to forget all the things that drove me nuts about the first one. Having said that, I managed to fix all the things that really drove me nuts making season one, which is great. We just have a whole new set of problems making season two…”

The Odd Couple - David Tennant and Michael Sheen talk character and sets for season two

Crowley and Aziraphale come off as the best of frenemies at times. Where do they stand with one other now?

DT: They are indeed. What’s different in season two is because of what happened at the end of season one, they no longer have head offices that they have to report to. They are in a very different position. Whereas before they were trying to get away with things, now they are kind of free agents.

MS: Although sort of fugitives as well. They are sort of in-between. But this amazing life they have created over a millennia, they are now able to enjoy in a slightly different way. They are not having to put on a front for their respective teams. There is a different kind of freedom.

DT: While at the same time being cut off, so they are also strangers in a strange land.

MS: That kind of connects them in a slightly different way. They have always been the only two beings who could understand each other’s position. Now they are pushed even closer together.

Now that they have the run of the place with no obligations, does that bring its own set of problems, being cut off?

DT: They have this sort of uneasy relationship. They are not entirely cut off from their head offices. Indeed, their head offices are quite keen to exploit that sort of adjacent connection, as we will see as the story unfolds. They exist in this grey area, neither the supernatural nor of the Earth.

MS: By the time we pick up their story in this series, they have appeared in time where they were kind of let alone a bit more. When we pick the story up, they are being bothered again.

The depth and the richness and the detail of what we are seeing on set here in Edinburgh is mind-blowing. How is it for you having it all in one place now, rather than having filming scattered around the UK?

MS: It’s completely changed the experience of doing it. Just being indoors… The Soho set on the first season was freezing cold.

DT: I was in a car park. Even inside the bookshop I was exposed to the elements! There’s a greater percentage of the show set here. There was a practical imperative to making it a manageable environment. If we had been in a car park, the elements might have impinged our ability to film.

Hellraiser - David Tennant is Crowley

You and Michael know these characters inside out. Do you have a shorthand?

It’s a hard thing to be objective about. Although I didn’t know Michael that well before we shot season one, it was always easy and exciting working together. It’s well-oiled now, for sure. It’s certainly fun to come to work. We enjoy bouncing off each other.

How comfortable are they about becoming involved with Gabriel?

I suppose Aziraphale is a much more enthusiastic detective. We are very much voting for the spin-off called The Azirafiles, which will follow this! As with most things, Crowley is reluctant to get involved or to exhibit any kind of energy or enthusiasm about very much. He is dragged kicking and screaming into this. Necessity forces him to get involved, whereas Aziraphale rather likes it.

Where does Crowley hang out these days?

He spends a lot of time in the book shop. He only has one friend. He can only have one friend. That is the great liberation, and also the great prison, that they find themselves in. They have no one else. They have come to rely on each other more than they ever did. And more than they care to admit.

Crowley is a rock star, in a way. Were there any particular musicians that inspired you?

Not consciously, no. The look was assembled accidentally during the first costume sessions. The Crowley of the book is of the mode when the book was written. He is more kind of Wall Street, the way he is described. We just decided that Crowley should always be of the moment he’s in. We were just trying to find a look that we felt fitted.

Divine Being - Michael Sheen is Aziraphale

How has knowing your characters better informed this series?

The first series was the first time we really properly worked together. It feels like we haven’t stopped working together since. Everything that has happened in-between plays into coming back to these characters. I am sure it is all feeding into it. It’s very difficult for us to know how that is informing the characters and their relationships.

With the flashbacks to various points in Earth’s history, is there a period of time Aziraphale enjoys the most?

One of the most enjoyable things for the audience and us is moving through different historical periods. It’s a great source of joy, and people thoroughly enjoyed that episode in the first series, so that has been expanded on in season two. But in terms of which Aziraphale enjoys the most, I think it’s not actually a period of time that we’ve seen him in on this series.

He would have been happiest at the end of the 19th century, in the Victorian era, which is considered the golden age of magic. He would have loved being with the greats like Harry Houdini. He loved the Victorian period. It was a great period of time for philanthropy and doing good works in a municipal way.

How has it been going from something dark like The Prodigal Son to a more whimsical show?

That’s the nature of an actor’s job. You go from one thing to another. In some ways, it’s even more useful to have big differences between the characters. What tends to happen, and I think most actors feel this way, is if you are playing one character for a long time, part of you yearns to play the bits the character doesn’t have. There’s a naivety and an innocence about Aziraphale. But at the same time, underneath that, there is eons of knowledge and experience.

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Leading the way back to the Yas Marina Circuit AE, the new N°7 Bentley Continental GT3 enjoys its premier at the 2013 Gulf 12 Hours where the Bentley Team M-Sport machine finished fourth. (Photo: Jon Brooks)

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#CountryMusic

The Ultimate Countdown 2023 Part 1 #47 To #25

So today we will be bringing you the Top 47 Country Music Songs for the entire year of 2023. Today we will be bringing you all the number ones from CMT (Country Music Television), the Billboard Country Music Airplay Charts, & even my MSR (Midnight Star Report). So let's get started with this 2 part countdown now.

Number 47 belongs to Kelsea Ballerini - IF YOU GO DOWN (I'M GOIN' DOWN TOO). Number 46 belongs to Luke Bryan - But I got a beer in my hand. Number 45 belongs to Corey Kent - Wild as her. Number 44 belongs to Justin Moore & Priscilla Block - You, me, and whiskey. Number 43 belongs to Dan + Shay - You. Number 42 belongs to Old Dominion - Memory lane. Number 41 belongs to Parmalee - Girl in mine. Number 40 belongs to Jon Pardi - Your heart or mine. Number 39 belongs to Gabby Barrett - Pick me up. Number 38 belongs to Scotty McCreery - It matters to her. Number 37 belongs to Dustin Lynch - Stars like confetti. Number 36 belongs to Jordan Davis - Next thing you know. Number 35 belongs to Carly Pearce - What he didn't do. Number 34 belongs to Parker McCollum - Handle on you. Number 33 belongs to Dierks Bentley - Gold. Number 32 belongs to Tim McGraw - Standing room only. Number 31 belongs to Russell Dickerson - God gave me a girl. Number 30 belongs to Jason Aldean - Try that in a small town. Number 29 belongs to Carrie Underwood - Hate my heart. Number 28 belongs to Megan Moroney - Tennessee orange. Number 27 belongs to Keith Urban - Brown eyes baby. Number 26 belongs to Dan + Shay - Save me the trouble. Number 25 belongs to Blake Shelton - No body.

And that's a wrap for part 1 where we counted down #47 to #25 of the Ultimate Countdown for 2023. Thanks as always goes out to both CMT (Country Music Television), & the Billboard Country Music Airplay Charts for doing their weekly Country Music Song Countdowns. And thanks as well goes out to you for taking the time to read this weekly list. See ya all next time where we will countdown #24 to #1.

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URL Song Tag Game

Rules: Pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

I was tagged by @mothellie ty! ily!!

D irt on my boots - jon pardi

I hate the weekend - bentley robles

R unner - djo

T astemakers - dj grumble

B linding lights - the weeknd

A lways something there to remind me - naked eyes

G ilded lily - cults

D anger - slaters

E lectric feel - mgmt

F latline - jared benjamin

E nd of the night - slumberville, jon bryant

N ot like us - kendrick lamar

D ead moon - brick + morter

E la me chamando - ugobhb, uxie kid, shots!

R un away with me - carly rae jepsen

oh my god that'd be so many people to tag - lmao. whoever wants to consider this a tag and do this, feel free!! 💜