Good Omens fans have been clamoring for the show to continue since the day the second season dropped, but now we finally have an update from creator Neil Gaiman.
Gaiman, who co-authored the novel the show is based on with legend Terry Pratchett, recently told fans on social media that he’s already busy working on writing season three of the hit show since the Writers Guild of America strike ended.
The fan-favorite show centers around the relationship between the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant) as they try to stop the apocalypse in season one and try to uncover the mystery of how the archangel Gabriel wound up on Earth with no memory in season two.
Gaiman was asked by a fan on the social media platform Bluesky if he had started work on season three, to which the novelist-turned-screenwriter answered, “Yes,” as reported by The Wrap. Another person followed-up by asking, "Has it been renewed for a Season 3?," to which he wrote back, "No, but I’ve been hired to write one."
When asked if John Finnemore—who co-wrote Good Omens season two with Gaiman— or other writers had joined him in working on the next season, Gaiman responded, “Right now just me.”
While this is excellent news for fans of the fantasy show, so far Prime Video has yet to announce plans to renew it. In a July 27 Tumblr post, Gaiman said that while he had already “planned and plotted” a third season, it won’t come to fruition “unless enough people watch Season 2 to make Amazon happy.”
“If I get to make it, will take the story and the people in it we care about to a satisfying end,” he wrote. “If I wasn’t on strike I’d be writing it currently. Our set is still standing in a studio in Bathgate and we would all love to get back there and finish the story in the way Terry [Pratchett] and I plotted, long ago.”
Despite the good news from Gaiman and the excellent reviews season two garnered, audiences may still have a long wait considering there was a four year gap between the first and second seasons.
Here’s hoping we get a tighter turn around this time because after the season two finale we are DYING to find out what happens next between the angel and demon!
Season one and two of Good Omens are now streaming on Prime Video.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
