Good Omens
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About
Good Omens is the title of a fantasy novel and television series by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. A television adaptation of the 1990 novel was produced by Amazon Prime in 2019.
History
Book
On May 1st, 1990, Neil Gaiman's book Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch was released. The book was nominated for a 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.[1]
Television Series
On May 31st, 2019, a teleivision adaptation of the series premiered on Amazon Prime. The six-episode series stars Michael Sheen, David Tennant and Jon Hamm and was written by Neil Gaiman.[2]
Reception
Netflix Protest
On May 12th, 2019, a petition to cancel Good Omens was published on the website Return To Order.[3] In the original posting, however, the petition called for Netflix to cancel the series, despite it being a part of Amazon Prime's original library.
On June 19th, Twitter [4] user @wdebruinjr posted a screenshot of the petition and corrected the errors, which was originally posted on the fleetof-fandoms Tumblr [5] tagging Neil Gaiman in the caption. The post received more than 2,400 likes and 300 retweets in 24 two days (shown below, left).
Gaiman retweeted[6] the post and wrote, "I love that they are going to write to Netflix to try and get #GoodOmens cancelled. Says it all really." The post received more than 23,000 likes and 4,400 retweets in two days (shown below, center).
On June 20th, 2019, The Guardian[7] reported that more than 20,000 people had signed the petition. Netflix responded to a tweet about the article. They wrote,[8] "ok we promise not to make any more." The post received more than 49,000 likes and 9,600 retweets in 24 hours (shown below, right).
That day, Amazon Prime's Twitter account posted, "Hey @netflix, we'll cancel Stranger Things if you cancel Good Omens." The tweet received more than 66,000 likes and 16,000 retweets in 24 hours (shown below).
Following reports of the mistake, the petition was updated to read:
"Due to an oversight by Return to Order staff, this petition originally listed Netflix as responsible for the offensive series "Good Omens." Amazon Video released the series on May 31. We regret the mistake, and the protests will be delivered to Amazon when the campaign is complete.
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Good Omens
[2] Wikipedia – Good Omens
[3] Return to Order – Cancel the Blasphemous 'Good Omens' Series
[4] Twitter – "@wdebruinjr's Tweet":
[5] Tumblr – fleetof-fandoms' Post
[6] Twitter – @neilhimself's Tweet
[7] The Guardian – Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens
[8] Twitter – @NetflixUK's Tweet
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