Neil Gaiman on American Gods behind-the-scenes showrunner turmoil: "It was bullsh*t"

Entertainment Weekly

“I was offered the showrunner job several times, and I can’t. It doesn’t work that way," Gaiman says of the reported behind-the-scenes turmoil. "I’m doing Good Omens. It’s a full-time thing. So for me, I wanted Bryan (Fuller) and Michael (Green) to succeed. I wanted Jesse (Alexander) to succeed and I think Jesse did an amazing job of taking a show that didn’t have a showrunner, suddenly and surprisingly, and didn’t have scripts and putting together a writers’ room, putting together a show. It was amazing.” Gaiman admits there were some problems, but nothing out of the ordinary. “Sometimes people write scripts and the scripts don’t always work,” he said. “And at that point, somebody else in the writers’ room takes a crack at it.”