Good Omens sequel is on its way!

Good Omens has been green-lit for a second season by BBC Studios and Amazon Studios.

Back once again in their iconic roles as Aziraphale and Crowley will be the wonderful and talented Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

Filming of the six-part fantasy comedy-drama will begin later this year in Scotland and will be shown on Amazon Prime Video at a later date.

Neil Gaiman returns as co-executive producer and co-show-runner along with Douglas Mackinnon who will also reprise his role as director. BBC comedy legend John Finnemore will join as an executive producer and co-writer alongside Gaiman, saying on Twitter that “Heaven (and hell) knows I’m no Terry Pratchett; but I’ll do my very best. And luckily @neilhimself
is one hell (and heaven) of a Neil Gaiman.”

Rob Wilkins and BBC Studios Productions’ Head of Comedy Josh Cole will also executive produce with Finnemore and Gaiman.

The new season will explore the friendship between the rare book dealer angel Aziriphale and the demon Crowley who, as we know, didn’t fall from heaven- he merely ‘sauntered vaguely downwards’. The friends had been living on Earth since The Beginning and, since the Apocalypse was thwarted, the unlikely pair were getting back to living quietly amongst mortals in London’s Soho until an unexpected messenger arrives with a surprise…

Neil Gaiman says in his journal: “It’s thirty-one years since ‘Good Omens’ was published, which means it’s thirty-two 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.”

Michael Sheen jokes: “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.”

David Tennant adds: “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…”