News about Neil Gaiman

The production of Amazon drama Good Omens has reportedly been suspended in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations made against the show's co-creator Neil Gaiman. The author - who co-wrote the 1990 novel of the same name - has denied the allegations made against him by five women, branding the accusations as 'disturbing'. It comes after Disney also hit pause on its feature adaptation of Gaiman's 2008 'The Graveyard Book' after the allegations surfaced.

According to an investigation for the Tortoise podcast hosted by journalist and broadcaster Rachel Johnson, the award-winning British writer was alleged to have sexually assaulted one of the women within hours of their first meeting, when she was 22 and he was 61. She made a complaint to police about him, although he was never interviewed or accused of any criminal offence because of lack of evidence. He has strenuously denied any sexual misconduct and any allegation of non-consensual sex.

Speaking to Hello!, Turkish-British author Elif Shafak (right) praised book-lover Queen Camilla (left) for 'supporting poets and writers' ahead of the launch of this year's Queen's Reading Room Festival on June 8. Award-winning Shafak, whose 2021 novel The Island of Missing Trees was shortlisted for the Costa Award and Women's Prize for Fiction (amongst others), will be discussing her new book There are Rivers in the Sky at the June festival.

The second series of the royal's book podcast launches on Monday. The first season aired as an audio version of Her Majesty's popular online bookclub, which has 172,000 followers on Instagram. The Queen will feature in each episode, with next month seeing the launch of the Reading Room festival at Hampton Court (Pictured: Queen Camilla, inset: with Richard E Grant).

TikTok is launching 'BookTok bookshelves' in cities across the UK identified as lacking in 'literary provision'.  BookTok - the area of the platform where users share book recommendations - has been largely credited in the resurgence of reading as a popular hobby among young people with more than 32 million posts and more than 167 billion views.  The bookshelves have been set up following research by the National Literary Trust (NLT) that found fewer than three in ten children aged eight to 18 read every day. The shelves will be placed in 11 cities in the UK found to face the 'biggest challenges' with literacy and include Nottingham (pictured) and Manchester.

Netflix fans can't get enough of a new horror series and are hailing it a '10/10' as  they insist that 'everyone' needs to 'go watch it'. Dead Boy Detectives, which is part of the DC Comics Sandman universe, follows teen ghosts, Edwin Paine and Charles Roland, as they work alongside Crystal the clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele. The eight-episode series, which dropped onto Netflix UK and Ireland on April 25, has already proved a huge hit with both horror and mystery fans.

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Blue Lights season two returned with rave reviews on Monday as Sian Brooke reprised her role as Constable Grace Ellis, a social worker turned policeman attempting to get a handle on the crime in Belfast.  It's the latest of Sian's series to receive rave reviews of late, having been plucked by BBC bosses to star in several primetime shows on the channel.  An average of 2.7 million viewers tuned into the police drama, with the figure expected to rise in coming days.  

This would be the most enjoyable winter's day for a walk in the woods under different circumstances. As we crunch through the snow, the temperature is just below zero, with the sky a brilliant blue and sunlight dapples through the pine canopy. However, these particulars are coincident to the demise and explosion of a new and outgoing artillery fire that echoes through this lovely woodland. As hooded wraiths, two Ukrainian soldiers in white camouflage uniforms had just stepped out of the trees to greet us, with assault rifles slung over their shoulders. According to them, this way and quickly. We go that way and quickly because drone warfare is also applicable to drone warfare and the Russian frontline, as well as its numerical hegemony in such weapons.

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Bella Thorne left little to the imagination when she, Heidi Klum, and Christina Hendricks led a cavalcade of actors at The Art Of Elysium's annual HEAVEN gala on Saturday night. The opulent celebration, which was titled 'Heaven Is A Library' and held at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, featured beloved author Neil Gaiman as a 'visionary,' by the arts-based nonprofit. Bella, 26, went show-stopping under a see-through netted dress, styled in a silver shade that went well with her off-white panties, giving her a show-stopping flourish.

Good Omens has been officially renewed for a third and final season. On Thursday, it was announced that the fantasy-comedy, which started as a limited series, would begin filming for its final season, which will be released on Amazon Prime Video. According to The Hollywood Reporter, production on the show from BBC Studios is scheduled to begin in Scotland shortly in the near future.

Before going back to look at what caused their outrage, David Tennant has encouraged social media users to avoid judging topics. The actor, 52, is expected to make his comeback with a second series of his show Good Omens, which had been sparked by more than 20,000 calls from Christians who believed the programme promoted and normalized satanism. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's fantasy book follows Crowley, who is attempting to prevent the arrival of the Anti-Christ when his boss decides to jump-start the apocalypse.

According to industry tracker Nielsen BookData, digital revenues dropped by 10% in 2022, while physical book sales fell by just 3 percent. Last year, British shoppers purchased 348 million books, worth £2.5 billion. However, this was lower than in 2020 and 2021, when lockdowns boosted profits among readers stranded at home. For years, industry analysts was worried that ebooks would kill off their paper rivals, but those worries were unfounded.

Chelsea Banning, a writer from the United States, said she was 'embarrassed' by the poor response to her first book, Of Crowns and Legends, at a signing. She was aided by Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood. The lives of Anwil and Ariadne Pendragon, King Arthur's fictional twins, are chronicled in Crowns and Legends, which is currently at number 3,218th on Amazon's bestsellers list. Miss Banning, who was left dissatisfied at the event in Ohio on Saturday, 15 years to write, and this is the first in a trilogy.

On Saturday, author Chelsea Banning held a book signing at Pretty Good Books in Ashtabula, Ohio, to advertise her debut book, 'Of Crowns and Legends.' After nearly 40 people registered to the event but only two people turned up, she revealed her dissatisfaction on Twitter the next day. Banning confessed to being "kind of distraught" and a "little embarrassed," causing other writers to rant about their own ostensible failures. Atwood, a writer of more than fifty books, including 'The Handmaid's Tale,' recalled how she once held a book signing at which no one appeared. King, another well-selling author, told a similar tale about his first signing for his second book, 'Salem's Lot,' in 1975.' Jodi Picoult, Neil Gaiman, Robin Hobb, Cheryl Strayed, Min Jin Lee, and Jonathan Coe were among the renowned writers who came out to Banning.

I can't tell you how cool we were and how progressive we were when my ex-husband, Adam, and I started our 'bohemian' union. We've already written a 'contract' that we felt covered every potential occurrence that an open relationship might bring up, but we had no idea what danger could lurked.

Author Neil Gaiman and his singer wife Amanda Palmer, both on the left, have been outspoken about their bizarre beginnings in the past, insisting that it does for them. However, they said they had now made the "difficult decision" to divorce after 11 years, in a joint statement shared on their personal websites and social media. Gaiman, 61, is a British writer best known for his graphic novel collection The Sandman and books, including Good Omens, a collaboration with Terry Pratchett and American Gods, and two episodes of Dr Who.

On August 5, Netflix's scary movie "The Sandman" premiered on the internet, and three months later, the streamer has approved new episodes for the dark fantasy series. On Sunday, Netflix's Tudum announced the show's return, noting that new stories would soon be adapted from Neil Gaiman's DC comic-book collection, which inspired Netflix's screen adaptation. "Millions of millions of people have watched and loved 'The Sandman' on Netflix,' from established 'Sandman' fans to people who were simply curious, and then became obsessed with the Lord of Dreams, his family, and their goings-on," Gaiman said. "It gives me a great pleasure to announce that Allan Heinberg, David Goyer, and I will continue to publish more of 'The Sandman's tales." "There are some amazing stories for Morpheus and the rest of them to hear," Morpheus and the rest of them are eager for (not to mention more members of the Endless Family to meet).

People will either be stunned by the brilliant genius or a bunch of old cobblers, according to Sarah Vine, BBC One's Marriage, starring Sean Bean and Nicola Walker, is one of those shows that people are either going to see is a work of sublime genius or a pile of old cobblers.

Since the producer inquired who the book is aimed at, the highly awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman's best-selling graphic novel has caused him to send a letter to 'hostile' followers. Fans wanted to know ahead of the 10-part series if the show is targeted at people who haven't read the comics.

On Friday, the highly awaited sequel to Neil Gaiman's bestselling graphic novel premiered on the streaming channel. Morpheus aka Dream, the king of dreams who was kidnapped and imprisoned for 106 years before escaping, is the Sandman actor Tom Sturridge. After unseating Virgin River, which had its fourth season premiere on July 20, the 10-episode series has climbed to the top of Netflix's charts. Critics have generally lauded the Sandman's first season, though some have expressed dissatisfaction with the Sandman's pacing. Several fans took to Twitter over the weekend to reveal how much they loved the remarkably faithful version, with some describing it as a'masterpiece.'

Netflix is finally gearing up to bring the long-anticipated live-action version of Neil Gaiman's popular fantasy comic-book series "The Sandman" after a long wait. The groundbreaking 10-part series, which premiered on the streamer on August 5, chronicles Morpheus' journey, the titular cosmic entity that has been stranded and unconscious for more than a decade, with the exception of Roderick Burgess's return to the land. Although the plot centers on Dream, six immortal siblings, collectively known as the Endless, also play a crucial role in the tale. The Endless are seven immensely influential immortal beings who are as old as existence itself and anthropomorphic personifications of various states of existence, including Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, and Delirium. Every member of this dysfunctional family has a special power and is an interesting piece of Gaiman's graphic novels' rich and deep universe. Although they did not appear on screen in season one, rest assured that they will eventually appear in the story.

It's Netflix's top-ranked series since its debut on August 5 - and the Sandman, a US fantasy drama series based on Neil Gaiman's 1989-1996 comic book that was released by DC Comics. It tells the tale of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, who after years of incarceration, embarks on a journey around the world to find what was missing from him and regaines power.