Fourteen years since its first edition, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's masterpiece collaboration finally comes on-air as "Good Omens" radio play is set for release this coming December.
Nominated for Best Novel and Best Fantasy Novel in the World Fantasy Award and Locus Award, respectively in 1991, "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch" is fantasy novel created by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in 1990.
The story focuses on the satirical battle to delay the end of the world, as two obvious opponents join together towards the same cause. Good and evil come together this time to avert the coming of the end times as the son of Satan is born.
Main characters Aziraphale, an angel and Crowley, a demon - comfortable in the human world, attempt to interrupt the supposed divine plan of the arrival of the antichrist, so named Adam and his realization of his identity that will bring him his powers.
Azitaphale and Crowley conspire to switch Adam with another new born upon his birth, knowing that he will be brought up as a normal child. However, Adam grows up a young boy, gathering a group of friends and making up a gang that would actually become his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse known as Famine, War, Pollution and Death.
In 2011, discussions to create not a "Good Omens" radio play but a television adaptation surfaced online. Set to produce the series was Terry Jones and Gavin Scott. Although Gaiman confirmed that in fact there is an adaptation series in the works, fans would never see the "Good Omens" TV.
Earlier this month, BBC however confirms "Good Omens" radio play set for Radio 4 to be released as a Christmas treat to fans in December 2014. Mark Heap will play Aziraphale and Peter Serafinowicz as Crowley.
