Episode 79: Adapting Good Omens and The Passage to television
Release Date: 06/10/2019
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info_outlineNeil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens was a favourite book of Emmet's back in the 90s and over two decades later it has landed on Amazon Prime. Last year Justin Cronin's vampire apocalypse epic The Passage also was adapted to television (sadly it has since been cancelled. As a fan of both books, Emmet has thoughts on their televised iterations (Stevie didn't read the book, but also has opinions on the shows).
*Also Emmet messed up - the nod in the Roman sequence of Good Omens was to Spartacus, not Ben Hur*