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What did you miss? David Tennant has opened up on the future of Good Omens after Neil Gaiman's departure, saying "there's been a slight rejig with personnel". The Doctor Who star faced an awkward question about the show in his episode of ITV's The Assembly , where stars agree to be grilled on tough topics by a panel of neurodiverse people. Gaiman left the Prime Video fantasy series, which Tennant stars in alongside Michael Sheen, following allegations of sexual assault which he has denied.
He was not directly named in The Assembly episode which aired on Sunday. Tennant also spoke about being an ally for the trans community, his terror when one of his children fell ill, and his feeling that he was "next up" after losing both of his parents. What, how, and why? The Assembly panel don't hold back in their questioning, where they say no subject is off the table, and Tennant faced a tricky moment when one man asked him about allegations against "someone he worked with" on Good Omens.
Production on the third series was halted in September 2024 after several women made allegations of sexual assault against its writer Gaiman, which he has denied. He has now left the show and the series will be cut back to a single 90-minute episode . The questioner asked Tennant: "Someone you've worked with, a friend, has been cancelled for some quite serious allegations.
How has that affected you?" Read more: Tennant asked: "Who are we talking about here?" and the man clarified: "He worked on Good Omens and that's been stopped, how has that affected you?" Stumbling a little over the question, Tennant replied: "We're doing Good Omens again. We're doing a finale. There's been a slight rejig with the personnel.
But we still get to tell that story. It would have been very difficult to leave it on a cliffhanger I think, so I'm glad that's been worked out." Another panel member asked Tennant about what had brought him to become a trans ally and he explained that he had been reminded of how Margaret Thatcher's Section 28 had sparked waves of homophobia when he was a teen.
He said: "I think the way the trans community is being demonised is exactly the same." The questioner asked him: "JK Rowling..
.How did you feel when she called you out on social media?" Tennant, who appeared in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, replied: "I do miss a lot of this because I'm not on there. JK Rowling's a wonderful author who's created brilliant stories and I wish her no ill will, but I hope that we can all as a society just let people be.
Just get out of people's way." What else did David Tennant say on The Assembly? One panel member asked Tennant when he had been the most scared, and he offered an emotional reply about his family. He said: "Probably when one of my kids was sick and there was a moment when it looked quite scary and quite serious.
In that moment, when you suddenly look at the possibility of something happening to one of your kids, that's a sort of inconceivable horror. Those are those life moments that you don't really ever forget." Another questioner asked him how he felt about having lost both of his parents and he shared: "It's devastating, they both died younger than they should.
My mum was 67 which is not nearly old enough. She had cancer and it was horrible. She got ill and then she got better and we thought oh, we dodged that.
Then a few months later it came back and it was evident that this time it wasn't going away. "It's horrid. You know it's coming, from when you're a kid you know it's coming, but it still feels impossible to conceive.
Then you're on your own. You're an orphan. You're next up.
" The Assembly airs on ITV1 at 10pm on Sunday and is available to stream on ITVX..
