With Michael Sheen and David Tennant

Here is the first picture of Michael Sheen and David Tennant in the comedy fantasy series Good Omens.

Showrunner Neil Gaiman posted the photograph on Twitter as filming starts on the TV adaptation of the novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett.

Sheen will star as the fussy angel and rare-book dealer Aziraphale, and Tennant will play his opposite number, the fast-living demon Crowley, both living on Earth as the armies of Good and Evil amass for the Apocalypse.

On Friday we reported how Better Call Saul and Spinal Tap star Michael McKean will play the shambling ‘Witchfinder Sergeant’ called Shadwell, and Jack Whitehall will be playing Newton Pulsifer, his awkward and timid right-hand-man.

Good Omens will be filming for the next six months in London, Oxfordshire and  South Africa. It will launch in the UK in 2019 on Amazon Prime Video before going on to BBC Two at a later date.

Gaiman said: ‘People have fallen in love with an angel and a demon in a book by Terry Pratchett and me, and they have been excited and nervous to see how they would appear on screen - and I was probably the most nervous and excited of all. 

‘This is a first look. Michael Sheen is the best and finest of bookseller angels, David Tennant the coolest and most delightful of demons. Together they are one hell of a double act (or do I mean one made in Heaven?)’

Also in the cast are Adria Arjona (Anathema Device), Nina Sosanya (Sister Mary Loquacious),  Miranda Richardson (Madame Tracy), Ned Dennehy (Hastur) and Ariyon Bakare (Ligur).

 The series will be brought to the screen by director Douglas Mackinnon, whose credits include Dirk Gently, Doctor Who and the standalone Victorian episode of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride.

Published: 18 Sep 2017