Amazon Renews Good Omens For Second Season

If you’ve been missing having Aziraphale and Crowley in your life, good news: Good Omens is coming back for more. Neil Gaiman has revealed that the show, which is based on the book he wrote with the late Terry Pratchett, has been renewed for a second season. Deadline reports that the new season will run six episodes and “will explore storylines that go beyond the original source material. Having been on Earth since The Beginning and with the Apocalypse thwarted, Aziraphale and Crowley are getting back to easy living amongst mortals in London’s Soho when an unexpected messenger presents a surprising mystery.”

The first season was a critical and commercial hit for Amazon and starred Michael Sheen and David Tennant as Aziraphale and Crowley, an angel and demon who teamed up to stop the pre-ordained apocalypse because they enjoyed their stations on Earth. Gaiman will continue to executive produce and serve as co-showrunner alongside Douglas Mackinnon, who will be back to direct.

Gaiman said, “It’s 31 years since Good Omens was published, which means it’s 32 years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at a World Fantasy Convention and plotted the sequel. I got to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens — that’s where our angels came from. Terry’s not here any longer, but when he was, we had talked about what we wanted to do with Good Omens, and where the story went next. And now, thanks to BBC Studios and Amazon, I get to take it there. I have enlisted some wonderful collaborators, and John Finnemore has come on board to carry the torch with me. There are so many questions people have asked about what happened next, and also, what happened before, to our favourite Angel and Demon. Here are the answers you’ve been hoping for. We are back in Soho, and all through time and space, solving a mystery, which starts with an angel wandering through Soho, with no memory.”

Sheen added, “Personally I’m against it, but the world isn’t going to just save itself, is it? If David and I can manage to not fall out too badly this time, it may even have a chance of getting finished.”

Finally, Tennant said, “The return of Good Omens is great news for me, personally. As I get to work with Michael again, and I get to say Neil’s wonderful words once more. It’s probably less good for the universe as it almost certainly means there will be some fresh existential threat to its existence to deal with, but, you know — swings and roundabouts.”