Good Omens Renewed for Third and Final Season at Amazon
That angel and demon sitting on your shoulders aren’t metaphors for your innermost desires: They’re Aziraphale and Crowley, and they’re there to let you know that Good Omens is coming back for a third and final season.
Prime Video announced the renewal on Thursday, adding that Season 3 “will bring to life a serendipitous conversation from almost 35 years ago, between Neil Gaiman and the late Sir Terry Pratchett, where they mapped out ‘what happens next’ to the wonderful characters in the world of their internationally best-selling novel.”
“I’m so happy finally to be able to finish the story Terry and I plotted in 1989 and in 2006,” Gaiman said in a statement. “Terry was determined that if we made Good Omens for television, we could take the story all the way to the end. Season One was all about averting Armageddon, dangerous prophecies, and the End of the World. Season Two was sweet and gentle, although it may have ended less joyfully than a certain Angel and Demon might have hoped. Now in Season Three, we will deal once more with the end of the world. The plans for Armageddon are going wrong. Only Crowley and Aziraphale working together can hope to put it right. And they aren’t talking.”
Gaiman will continue as sole showrunner after the departure of Douglas Mackinnon, who also served as director and executive producer in Seasons 1 and 2. Filming on Season 3 will begin “soon” in Scotland.
In August, Gaiman wrote on X (fka Twitter) that a third season of Omens was on his list of to-dos. “It’s planned and plotted and if there wasn’t a Writers Strike on I’d be writing it right now,” he said.
In the Season 2 finale, the angel Aziraphale (played by Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant) reached a new level in their millennia-long relationship when they kissed just moments before the final credits. Around that time, Tennant told TVLine that the major moment at the end of the episode — as well as Aziraphale’s learning that he’ll be deeply involved in the second coming of Christ — “doesn’t finish the story.” Sheen added: “It’s the start of another story.”
YES!!!! Great news!!!
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Great news! Really enjoyed watching Seasons 1& 2.
WAHOO!!! So happy. Yay. :)
I didn’t love the second season. The fact that the budget was slashed was painfully apparent in that everything was filmed on the single street set… and Terry Pratchett’s influence was sadly lacking. Love the characters, but hope they can come up with a better story for the final season.
Sadly I agree. The first season was pretty fun, and in keeping with the book, and the second season felt so incoherent and unfunny in comparison. The actors are still fantastic but they need better scripts, better plotting (and a bigger budget wouldn’t hurt, obviously).
Yay.
I love this show and these characters so much.
I was quite well satisfied with season 1. Never had the slightest desire to watch the second. But nice for those who did.
Oh thank Heavens and Hells! I hope it’ll end well. I’m still so crushed at the moment
Neil, when asked on tumblr bout that “soon” regarding the filming said that they “won’t be shooting anything soon. There’s a lot to do before then”. I’m just saying so that people don’t get disappointed when they see that season 3 premiers, I don’t know, on the second half of 2025.