My strong suspicion is that the footage was left over from the TV show, or maybe possibly a few bits of props still lying around that people pocketed before the end. Because they burnt the bookshop set.
(As I recall the cakes -- which likely were new -- were not compiled with any of the bookshop prop footage.)
There has been Rumour about a sequel. AIUI Amazon & the BBC would LOVE to do one, because it has been very successful. Gaiman does not particularly want (again, as I understand it) to return to his role as producer, because it meant he didn't do any writing for a couple of years, and had to be places at ungodly times of the morning and all that sort of thing. Of course, someone else could produce it; but given that it's not just Gaiman's, it's his and Pratchett's, and he feels quite strongly that he's responsible on behalf of both of them, I don't know if he'll be willing to let go. (And I presume it's not like he desperately needs the money they're doubtless offering.) There *is* an outline of a second book that they started to put together, from which some of the angel stuff was cannibalised (Gabriel et al aren't in the book at all).
My personal feeling is that I am inclined to hope that they *don't* do it, because I am worried that it won't be anywhere near as good. Basically.
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Date: 2020-05-03 02:17 pm (UTC)(As I recall the cakes -- which likely were new -- were not compiled with any of the bookshop prop footage.)
There has been Rumour about a sequel. AIUI Amazon & the BBC would LOVE to do one, because it has been very successful. Gaiman does not particularly want (again, as I understand it) to return to his role as producer, because it meant he didn't do any writing for a couple of years, and had to be places at ungodly times of the morning and all that sort of thing. Of course, someone else could produce it; but given that it's not just Gaiman's, it's his and Pratchett's, and he feels quite strongly that he's responsible on behalf of both of them, I don't know if he'll be willing to let go. (And I presume it's not like he desperately needs the money they're doubtless offering.) There *is* an outline of a second book that they started to put together, from which some of the angel stuff was cannibalised (Gabriel et al aren't in the book at all).
My personal feeling is that I am inclined to hope that they *don't* do it, because I am worried that it won't be anywhere near as good. Basically.