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Monday Trending Topics: Good Omens

Published Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:15:47 -0500

Always nice to get word of a good omen on a Monday: The first projects on the slate are a pair of adaptations that were previously set up at Prime Focus. There's a four-part mini-series version of Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, with Terry Jones and Gavin Scott writing the scripts; and there's an ongoing, procedural series set in Discworld's Ankh Morpork, starring and named for The Watch, the city's police force. This too has Jones and Scott on the writing team.

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