I’d be looking at it going, “That’s so interesting my book isn’t going to be this.” “Omens” was your first novel, but your first authorship was actually a 1984 biography of Duran Duran. With each of the showrunners who’s come in for “American Gods,” I’ve said, “I have to brief you on the book that will come next, because there are hooks built in that you might not put on screen if you don’t know.” For me, it’s almost as if went off and made their own version. I look at that with absolute fascination. What’s your take on how “Game of Thrones” ended before George R.R. You’ve also got another “Gods” book in mind - even as that Starz series continues airing. As a way of dealing with the grief, I started writing “Good Omens.” You’re one of the few who’ve had your books adapted for TV on “Omens,” you’re showrunning for the first time. And suddenly, this thing I had said to my friend was a last request. And you have to do this so that I can watch it before the lights go out.” … We thought we had maybe five years of Terry left - but then he went into a coma and died. Terry wrote me an email: “I know how busy you are, but you’re the only other person on this planet who has the same understanding of and passion for the old girl that I do. Terry, who died in 2015, made this deathbed request of you to craft “Good Omens” for the screen. He would have said, “What we really need is this rubber chicken.” And all I’m thinking here is, “My God, Terry would love this.” And if he were here, he’d find a way to make this even funnier and weirder and goofier. I landed here in this place at this time because I made a promise to my friend that I’d make our book into television that he’d watch before he died. It’s this weird feeling that mainstream caught up with me rather than the other way around. I existed in this dichotomous place of “Neil Gaiman? Never heard of him” and a very tiny subset of “Neil Gaiman, my favorite writer.” But those people were weird people they had tattoos, they were not mainstream. When I started doing this about 35 years ago, I was making weird stuff out on the fringe. Your fingerprints are all over TV these days - “Good Omens,” “American Gods,” the feature “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” and “Lucifer.” How did you engineer a takeover of TV?
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