Good Omens Season 2 Isn't Out Yet, But There's Season 3 Plan in Place Already

With the highly anticipated Season 2 of Good Omens almost upon us, author Neil Gaiman has hinted that Season 3 is already in the pipeline.

This shouldn't really come as a shock. Season 1 was largely successful, earning an average audience score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. The wonderful chemistry between real-life friends David Tennant and Michael Sheen shines through in the show. And the influence of Gaiman, who co-wrote the source material with the late Terry Pratchett, gave it an authenticity not always present in TV adaptations.

But it's not necessarily the success of the show that points to a third season. With Gaiman and the two leads, you get the impression that they all take their craft seriously. And it's hard to imagine either of them having the desire or the need to pump out something inferior just to milk a cash cow.

But in an interview with SFX, Neil Gaiman revealed that he and Pratchett came up with the idea for a sequel to Good Omens one night while staying in a hotel. This sequel, however, is not the story we will see unfold in season 2 of the TV show.

Gaiman explained that he 'didn't feel like we could go straight from season one' to what he calls 'the hypothetical season 3.' He felt that a bridging story was necessary to take viewers from the end of Season 1 to the beginning of Season 3.

This is great news on two fronts.

First, it means we're virtually guaranteed a third season. If Season 2 was written with the original sequel in mind, it won't complete the story. So it seems inevitable that we'll have something to look forward to as soon as Season 2 wraps up.

Second, we're talking about a season conceived by the two authors of the original book. After Terry Pratchett's sad death in 2015, it seemed unlikely that we'd ever see anything new from this genius. And yet, here we are in 2023, with a real expectation that season 3 of Good Omens ( presuming we're right and it gets commissioned) will carry the mark of the great man. Because we know and trust that Neil Gaiman wouldn't have it any other way.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes, SFX.