Good Omens renewed with second season by Amazon

Michael Sheen and David Tennant will return for the second season of the fantasy drama Good Omens.

Amazon has ordered a second season of six episodes of the serial adaptation of the book Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, which was written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

The series was originally intended to be a limited series. Sheen will return as aziraphale, a picky angel and occasional book trader. Tennant will too return as the hip demon Crowley. They form an unlikely duo that is working together to save the world from the Apocalyps.

Production on the second season will start in Scotland later this year.

The new season will explore storylines that will go past the original source material. Aziraphale and Crowley have been on earth since the beginning of time, and now that the Apocalyps has been prevented, they once again live next to the mortals in Soho, London. Then, all of a sudden, an unexpected messenger presents a surprising mystery.

Gaiman (photo) - who signed a deal with Amazon Studios - will remain as executive producer and will co-showrun alongside executive producer Douglas Mackinnon. Rob Wilkins, John Finnermore and BBC Studios Productions' Head of Comedy Josh Cole will also serve as executive producer. Finnermore will also serve as co-writer alongside Gaiman.



Back in 2019, the first season premiered with Jon Hamm, Nick Offerman, Jack Whitehall, Miranda Richardson, Adrai Arjona, Michael McKean, Anna Maxwell Martin and Mireille Enos in the lead.

“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,” said Gaiman. “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.”

He added the following: “I have enlisted some wonderful collaborators, and John Finnemore has come on board to carry the torch with me,” added Gaiman. “There are so many questions people have asked about what happened next (and also, what happened before) to our favorite 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 (photo)added: “Personally I’m against it, but the world isn’t going to just save itself, is it? If David (Tennant, photo) and I can manage to not fall out too badly this time it may even have a chance of getting finished.”



David 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." He then quipped, "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."