Yesterday the winners of the 2020 Sandford St Martin Awards, “an extraordinary awards ceremony for an extraordinary time”, were announced yesterday. The Amazon/BBC production Good Omens won the Radio Times’ Readers Award:
An overwhelming favourite among those who voted this year! Based on a fantasy fiction novel by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens is a six-part drama series, written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Douglas Mackinnon about a Demon and an Angel’s efforts to prevent the end of the world. Good Omens stars an ensemble cast, led by Michael Sheen and David Tennant, with Miranda Richardson, Michael McKean, Jack Whitehall, Jon Hamm and Frances McDormand among the many stars in supporting roles.Set in present day England, the series follows a fussy angel, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and a loose-living Demon, Crowley, (David Tenant), who’s shared fondness for life on earth sees them form an unlikely alliance to stop Armageddon. Aziraphale and Crowley team up to try and save the world from the anti-Christ – an unsuspecting 11-year-old boy, living in rural Oxfordshire. A great story that explores some very big ideas and some big themes without ever losing its sense of the absurd.
The author and showrunner Neil Gaiman gave an emotive acceptance speech:
And Michael Sheen, now David Tennant’s official spokesman, recorded some words too:
You can watch the full ceremony here.