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Hi Mr Gaiman! Recently I saw a video were they claimed that Dog the hell hound actually bit David Tennant and had to be somewhat replaced with cgi, is that true?

neil-gaiman answered:

No. Ollie the dog absolutely bit David Tennant. He wasn't really replaced with CGI for the rest of the episode as his part in the UK was done, although there might have been a shot or two on the airbase after that where we composited Ollie in. The later scenes in Episode 6 had already been shot.

A couple of months later we shot the end of Episode 3 scene in Adam's bedroom in South Africa and we needed a Dog in it. But we couldn't have brought Ollie to South Africa anyway. Instead we used A Local Dog that looked a lot like Ollie. And we used make up and maybe even a tiny bit of CGI to make him look more like Ollie.

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edin3el asked:

Where was Hell filmed in good omens? Was it a set or was there an actual location you guys would use? I'm rewatching it and some shots honestly look like it was filmed in a school to me lol

neil-gaiman answered:

It was an abandoned abbatoir in Capetown, South Africa.

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From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Neil: The wonderful thing about Good Omens all the way through was the amount of goodwill. There was love for the book, and people came in because they wanted to do it. You know, Danny [Daniel Mays - Arthur Young] is amazing. There's Nick Offerman [Thaddeus Dowling] who offered to fly himself to South Africa to be in it, and we turned him down and we flew him, but he came to South Africa for two days of shooting in a tiny part, because he loved Good Omens, because he wanted to do it.

Douglas: And our first AD [assistant director] said to him in South Africa, 'You've come a long way for only a few lines.', and he said, 'I would have come twice as far for half the lines.'

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