It’s official! Good Omens is returning to Amazon for a new batch of six episodes, with shooting beginning in Scotland in September. Michael Sheen is reprising his role as the angel Aziraphale. The first poster has been released and you can check it out on our photo gallery:
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Ler maisThe nominees of the British Academy Cymru Awards 2020 were announced earlier today. The Amazon Prime mini-series Good Omens recieved a nod in the Sound category, while Wales: Land of the Wild, the BBC documentary narrated by Michael Sheen, recieved two, for Factual Series and Original Music. Check out the nominees:
Factual Series
Cornwall: The Fishing Life
Wales: Land of the Wild / Cymru Wyllt
Warriors: Our Homeless World Cup
Ysgol Ni: Maesincla – WINNER
Original Music (sponsored by Cardiff Council)
Mark Thomas for Last Summer
Jonathan Hill for The Long Song – WINNER
John Hardy Music for Steel Country
Karl Jenkins & Jody Jenkins for Wales: Land of the Wild / Cymru Wyllt
Sound
Alex Ashcroft for The Last Tree
Production Team for Good Omens – WINNER
Production Team for Sex Education
The ceremony will be broadcast on BAFTA’s Facebook and YouTube channels at 7 PM GMT on October 25 2020 and will be hosted by Alex Jones, the television presenter. This post will be updated once the winners are announced.
Congratulations to the teams behind both productions!
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:
Ler maisAn 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.
Earlier today the nominees of the 2020 Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards were announced. Good Omens got a nomination for Special, Visual & Graphic Effects. See the other nominees:
Ben Turner, Chris Reynolds, Asa Shoul – The Crown – Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television/Netflix
Framestore, Painting Practice, Real SFX, Russel Russel Dodgson – His Dark Materials – Bad Wolf, BBC Studios/HBO/BBC One
Lindsay McFarlane, Claudius Christian Rauch, Jean-Clément Soret, DNE – Chernobyl – Sister Pictures, The Mighty Mint, Word Games/Sky Atlantic
Milk Visual Effects, Gareth Spensley, Real SFX – Good Omens – Amazon Studios, BBC Studios, Narrativia, The Blank Corporation/Amazon Prime Video
The winners of the British Academy Television Craft Awards, originally scheduled for Sunday April 26, will be revealed on Friday July 17. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the ceremony will take place as a closed studio, socially-distanced show, with nominees invited to accept their awards virtually. Hosted by Stephen Mangan, the ceremony, will be broadcast on the BAFTA YouTube chanel.
Michael discusses Quiz, Good Omens, Prodigal Son, fans and being a father for the second time at 50. Read more:
Ler maisLOS ANGELES—Michael Sheen has played Prime Minister Tony Blair, TV broadcaster icon David Frost and renowned human sexuality researcher William Masters, but the role he enjoys reprising these days is that of a father.
It has been 20 years since Michael became a first-time dad when he and Kate Beckinsale had Lily Mo Beckinsale-Sheen. Last September, the English actor returned to playing one of his favorite roles—a father—to Lyra, his daughter with Swedish actress Anna Lundberg.
“It’s been 20 years since I did this,” Michael confirmed in a video call about becoming a dad again at age 51.
“To be a new dad with a little baby in lockdown as well is a very particular experience,” said the Golden Globe nominee for the TV drama series, “Masters of Sex.” “It’s been great because it means that her routine comes first. I know a lot of people have been saying since the lockdown that routine is such an important thing because otherwise, you end up living in your pajamas all day, not doing anything. But, of course, she has a routine that has to be stood by, so she dictates what happens in the day.
During an ‘Author Live Series’ hosted by Amazon Live, in which Neil Gaiman and David Tennant discussed the TV adaptation of Good Omens, Michael appeared with a pre-recorded question to Gaiman. You can watch it here from 12min49.
The BBC and Amazon series adaption of Terry Pratchett and New Gaiman’s book was selected one of the “60 nominees that represent the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019”.
See below the other nominees in the “Entertainment” category:
Chernobyl; – WINNER
David Makes Man; – WINNER
Dickinson; – WINNER
Fleabag; – WINNER
Float;
Good Omens;
Our Boys;
Ramy; – WINNER
Stranger Things; – WINNER
Succession; – WINNER
Unbelievable; – WINNER
Watchmen; – WINNER
When They See Us. – WINNER
The awards ceremory, originally set to happen in June, is yet to be announced.
Congratulations to everyone involved in Good Omens!
EDIT: Update on the awards ceremony date as published on Deadline website:
The Peabody Awards, which had to postpone its scheduled June 18 winners ceremony in what was to be its first time held in Los Angeles, said Thursday it is now canceling the event. Winners instead will be announced next week and be accepted via video.
The plan calls for the Peabodys to reveal the recipient of its Career Achievement Award on June 8, with winners to be announced June 10.
Thirty years ago today, on May 1, 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett published a book they wrote together called Good Omens, which would win over thousands of fans around the world and would get in 2019 a television adaptation produced by the BBC and Amazon.
To celebrate the amazing milestone, Gaiman released a video showing what Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and Crowley (David Tennant) are doing during lockdown. Watch it below:
Happy 30th anniversary Good Omens!
Read below a long but great interview Michael gave to Collider in which he talked about Dolittle and working with Robert Downey Jr., Good Omens, Quiz, Prodigal Son, and The Way, a three-part series he is directing:
I recently sat down with Michael Sheen, who stars as the villainous Dr. Blair Müdfly in director Stephen Gaghan’s Dolittle, opening this weekend. While sitting in his trailer on the Universal backlot, Sheen and I had a wide-ranging conversation about working with Robert Downey Jr. and spending so much time looking at a tennis ball on set, the success of Amazon’s Good Omens, his idea for a Columbo episode, why he agreed to co-star on Prodigal Son, his upcoming limited series Quiz (which is about a huge Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scandal in Britian), being in an episode of The Simpsons, how he’s getting ready to direct a three-part series called The Way, and a lot more.
As you’ve seen in the trailers, Dolittle stars Downey Jr. as the famed doctor that can talk to animals. After his wife dies, Dolittle retreats behind his castle walls until being tasked to try and save the young Queen (Jessie Buckley) from a deadly illness. As he travels the world looking for a mythical island, he’s joined on his quest by a young apprentice (Harry Collett) and numerous animals that are voiced by Emma Thompson, John Cena, Tom Holland, Rami Malek, Craig Robinson, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Octavia Spencer, Kumail Nanjiani, and Marion Cotillard. Dolittle also stars Antonio Banderas and Jim Broadbent.
Check out what Michael Sheen had to say below.
Ler maisIn an interview to the website The Beat, Michael talks about what it was like to work with Robert Downey Jr, the possibitily of doing more Good Omens and more:
Dolittle antagonist Michael Sheen has been crushing his way through all forms of entertainment media for a few decades now, from theater to movies and lately, television, the latter taking up most of his time in recent years. Depending on your interests might determine the work of his that you’re most familiar with, whether it’s “The Twilight Saga,” his work with writer Peter Morgan (The Crown) on The Queen and Frost/Nixon or some of his television work, like Masters of Sex – or fan favorite Good Omens.
In the new family fantasy-adventure Dolittle, Sheen plays Dr. Blair Müdfly, doctor to Queen Victoria and the ersatz arch-rival of Robert Downey Jr’s titular Doctor John Dolittle, a physician with the ability to talk to animals who has disappeared from the public view after the tragic death of his wife, Lily. Dolittle’s only friends are the animals that surround him at his estate until a young lad named Stubbins (Harry Collett from Dunkirk) stumbles onto the grounds. When Victoria (Jessie Buckley) falls ill, Dolittle is called back to London, but in order to find a cure, he must travel with his animals to the far sides of the globe. Of course, Müdfly isn’t happy about Dolittle’s interference.
Besides those mentioned above, the cast includes Antonio Banderas and Jim Broadbent, as well as a slew of actors providing their voices for various animals, including Emma Thompson, Octavia Spencer, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani and Craig Robinson.
The Beat had a chance to get on the phone line with Mr. Sheen last week, and we did throw in a question about his possible return as the angel Aziraphale for any sort of follow-up to Amazon’s series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel, Good Omens.
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