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From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Douglas: So we go back to the Bentley, and the Bentley is a big character.

Neil: In the book it's a 1926 Bentley but on TV - because the 1926 Bentleys actually didn't look very impressive, but the 1933 Bentley - which, incidentally, we were able to obtain, which, really was the... the thing that sold us on it.

Douglas: I think what you’re saying is, 'It's a 1933 Bentley 'cause that's the Bentley we could get.'

Neil: Yes, that is exactly what I'm getting at! I was doing a...

Douglas: ...skirting around it.

Neil: ...skirting. Big skirt.

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From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Douglas: Now this graveyard and this church, which is in England, was interesting, because we... I think it was the second location I ever saw in preproduction and we went through a whole process on not being able to film on there because we couldn't get the lights in and it was the wrong schedule and everything else so we looked at on other churches... but eventually we went to film there and I remember that on the night we were filming our amazing DoP [Director of Photography] Gavin Finney said to me, 'Come round the back of this church, there's something I've got to show you.', which I would normally not want to go and do with DoP and he took me round the back and showed me a gravestone, which was Terry Pratchett's aunty, I think it was, who was buried in the grounds of this graveyard. Did you know that?

Neil: I knew once you told me but I didn't know that and I love the weird and beautiful coincidences.

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From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Neil: So, we did all sorts of stuff in the original script before we got to this point-

Douglas: We did, yeah.

Neil: -there was probably about another 15 minutes worth of stuff, and we wound up throwing it all away or most of it, because actually people were very confused about when the story started. And we've just moved to here where the story starts.

Douglas: And funnily enough we've discovered that the best structure for the beginning of Good Omens was in the book.

Neil: Yes - you were the one, I think, who came up with this - and when I sat and watched it and realised it worked, somewhere 26-year-old Neil Gaiman was smirking at me.