It was Terry’s final wish we make Omens

New drama series Good Omens got made because it was the dying wish of author Terry Pratchett, it emerged yesterday.

The series, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant, promises to be a major drama next year when it appears on BBC1 and Amazon.

Yesterday Pratchett’s co-author Neil Gaiman said the pair had spent years trying to turn it into a film before deciding on a TV series. At first they wanted someone LAST REQUEST Pratchett HEAVEN AND HELL Good Omens’ Sheen and Tennant else to do the adaptation because they were too busy. Gaiman said: “Then in … 2014 Terry, who had serious Alzheimer’s, wrote me a letter saying: ‘You have to do this because I want to watch it before the lights go out’. “Then he died, which made it a last request, so I spent 18 months … reinventing it as television while trying to stay faithful.” We got a first glimpse yesterday and viewers are in for a treat. Tennant is a black-winged demon, while Sheen has bleached-blond hair and plays an angel.