Re-re-run of currently watching

[eastmidswhizzkid]

Oh man this is so funny

i just binged this today and really enjoyed it. the damned shame -like the Nevers- is that 6 episodes go so quickly and now it will be fuck knows how long before we get any more.

[markfiend]

Hmmmmm I can't find it now but I'm sure someone mentioned the late Cinamon Hadley in connection to the new Sandman TV series. Here's Mike Drinkenberg's take on it...

https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/652 ... mon-hadley

[EvilBastard]

Went to the pictures for the first time in I don't know how long to see Edgar Wright's Sparks 'biopic'. I had the entire cinema to myself (so no-one was around to complain about my surreptitious vaping), comfy reclining seats - ver' nice. Worth watching, even if you're not a huge fan of the band, partly because they're just very very good at what they do, and choose not to do things that they're not good at.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

just announced on twatter by mr gaiman

[markfiend]

I know it's Neil Gaiman in charge and all, but I am a bit dubious about Good Omens 2. What, is the world going to end again?

On the other hand the Good Omens TV show was so good that there's practically zero chance that I wouldn't watch the new one.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

I know it's Neil Gaiman in charge and all, but I am a bit dubious about Good Omens 2. What, is the world going to end again?

On the other hand the Good Omens TV show was so good that there's practically zero chance that I wouldn't watch the new one.

apparently he and terry had roughed out a plot for a sequel ages ago and its that fleshed out.

[Big Si]

I know it's Neil Gaiman in charge and all, but I am a bit dubious about Good Omens 2. What, is the world going to end again?

On the other hand the Good Omens TV show was so good that there's practically zero chance that I wouldn't watch the new one.

Halloween 1989.

Many, many years ago (it was Hallowe'en 1989, for the curious, the year before Good Omens was published) Terry Pratchett and I were sharing a room at the World Fantasy Convention in Seattle, to keep the costs down, because we were both young authors, and taking ourselves to America and conventions were expensive. It was a wonderful convention. I remember a huge Seattle second-hand bookstore in which I found a dozen or so green-bound Storisende Edition James Branch Cabell books, each signed so neatly by the author that the bookshop people assured me that the signatures were printed, and really ten dollars a book was the correct price.

I could afford books. Good Omens had just been sold to UK publishers and then to US publishers for more money than Terry or I had ever received for anything. (Terry had been incredibly worried about this, certain that receiving a healthy advance would mean the end of his career. When his career didn't end, Terry suggested to his agent that perhaps he ought to be getting that kind of advance for every book from now on, and his life changed, and he stopped having to share a hotel room to save money. But I digress.) Advance reading copies of Good Omens had not yet gone out, but a few editors had read it (ones who had bid for it but failed to buy it) and they all seemed very excited about it, and thrilled for us.

On the Saturday evening Terry left the bar quite early and headed off to bed. I stayed up talking to people and having a marvelous time, hung in there until the small hours of the morning when they closed the hotel bar and all the people went away, and then headed up to the hotel room room.

I opened the door as quietly as I could and tiptoed in the dark across the room to where my bed was located.

I'd just reached the bed when, from the far side of the room, a voice said, “What time of the night do you call this then? Your mother and I have been worried sick about you.”

Terry was wide awake. Jet lag had taken its toll.

And I was wide awake too. So we lay in our respective beds and having nothing else to do, we plotted the sequel to Good Omens. It was a good one, too. We fully intended to write it, whenever we next had three or four months free. Only I went to live in America and Terry stayed in the UK, and after Good Omens was published Sandman became SANDMAN and Discworld became DISCWORLD™ and there wasn't ever a good time.

But we never forgot it.

It's been thirty-one years since Good Omens was published, which means it's thirty-two years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at a World Fantasy Convention, and plotted the sequel. (I got to use bits of the sequel in the TV series version of Good Omens -- that's where our angels came from.)

Terry was clear on what he wanted from Good Omens on the telly. He wanted the story told, and if that worked, he wanted the rest of the story told.

So in September 2017 I sat down in St James' Park, beside the director, Douglas Mackinnon, on a chair with my name on it, as Showrunner of Good Omens. The chair slowly and elegantly lowered itself to the ground underneath me and fell apart, and I thought, that's not really a good omen. Fortunately, under Douglas's leadership, that chair was the only thing that collapsed.

So, once Good Omens the TV series had been released by Amazon and the BBC, to global acclaim, many awards and joy, Rob Wilkins (Terry's representative on Earth) and I had the conversation with the BBC and Amazon about doing some more. And they got very excited. We talked to Michael Sheen and David Tennant about doing some more. They also got very excited. We told them a little about the plot. They got even more excited.

I'd been a fan of John Finnemore's for years, and had had the joy of working with him on a radio show called With Great Pleasure, where I picked passages I loved, had amazing readers read them aloud and talked about them.

(Here's a clip from that show of me talking about working with Terry Pratchett, and reading a poem by Terry:. Here's the whole show from youtube with John Finnemore's bits too.)

I asked John if he'd be willing to work with me on writing the next round of Good Omens, and was overjoyed when he said yes. We have some surprise guest collaborators too. And Douglas Mackinnon is returning to oversee the whole thing with me.

So that's the plan. We've been keeping it secret for a long time (mostly because otherwise my mail and Twitter feeds would have turned into gushing torrents of What Can You Tell Us About It? long ago) but we are now at the point where sets are being built in Scotland (which is where we're shooting, and more about filming things in Scotland soon), and we can't really keep it secret any longer.

There are so many questions people have asked about what happened next (and also, what happened before) to our favourite Angel and Demon. Here are, perhaps, some of the answers you've been hoping for.

As Good Omens continues, we will be back in Soho, and all through time and space, solving a mystery which starts with one of the angels wandering through a Soho street market with no memory of who they might be, on their way to Aziraphale's bookshop.

(Although our story actually begins about five minutes before anyone had got around to saying “Let there be Light”.)

[Pista]

Really nice document of their 1997 US tour

[markfiend]

We've been rewatching The Strain. I do remember thinking, when we first watched it, that it was a bit unrealistic the way that the politicians would let a lethal infection spread like that just because they'd been paid off.

Not looking so unrealistic now.

[Pista]

[Bartek]

Just started watching this


Miles more exciting than most of the actual races these days.
I did like the Alonso/ Sainz one when they tell Alonso his pace is really good during testing & then, on the very next corner, his wheel falls off

I watched first season and i would agree with you then, damned, i even called off my subscription for sport channels because there was the one with f1 races, but when i see results of nowaday races it gives a slight hope that boring last 6 years has come to an end, not to mention upcoming changes in regulations.

Now: Mr. Robot overall good.

[iesus]

A Viva La Dirt League marathon

[Pista]

This is all @czuczu's fault.
I am completely hooked

[Swinnow]

For those in the UK, 8pm tonight sees Sky Arts putting out 'Guy Garvey: From The Vaults'. Tonight's episode has Siouxsie, The Cure, Depeche Mode and t'Mish. No vaccine passports needed to elbow your way in.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

a great film. far superior to the s**t one with spandau ballet

[markfiend]

Class film that. Pity the guy playing Ronnie isn't as good as the guy playing Reggie. Or is it the other way round?

[OLDFART]

Watched Loki and found it hard work and a bit dull .

[Pista]

[markfiend]

About halfway down on the left is that... is that a Womble?

[Pista]

About halfway down on the left is that... is that a Womble?

Haha.
That's Ratcatcher 2
The whole film is utterly barking.
Like the 2 that preceded it.
Regardless of the reviews all 3 films are a heck of a lot of fun

[Silver_Owl]

Watched this last night. A reet good watch.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

powerful stuff

[EvilBastard]

Very very weird. "No more throwing up kittens" is, I suspect, a phrase not often found in TV scripts.

[Pista]

"From now on. You will be.....Kwunt."

[eastmidswhizzkid]

"From now on. You will be.....Kwunt."

Aha! i had forgotten this was back. nice one Steve.