Neil Gaiman gives brief update on Good Omens season 2 and trailer release date

Later this year, Amazon Prime Video will launch season 2 of its comedic fantasy show Good Omens. Based on the acclaimed novel written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, season 1 of Good Omens  was a hit that went over incredibly well with fans. It starred Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale and David Tennant as the demon Crowley, two eternal companions who decide to try and stop the end times in their own quirky fashion after the birth of the son of Satan. It also happened to cover the entirety of the novel, which has left fans both new and old with a lot of questions about what to expect in the follow-up.

A trailer might go a ways to ease such questions about what season 2 has in store, but so far we haven’t seen one. Fortunately, Neil Gaiman is great about keeping his fans in the loop, so we do have a good idea of what’s going on with the series.

Good Omens season 2 is finished and handed in to Amazon!

These latest bits of news come from Gaiman’s Tumblr, where he got to talking with a few fans about the status of Good Omens season 2. The show is slated to hit in the summer of 2023, but we don’t know exactly when. From the sounds of it, neither does Gaiman quite yet:

“You’ll get Season 2 in the Northern Hemisphere Summer of 2023, we just handed in the finished show and we haven’t made a trailer yet,” the author wrote. He went on to say that no plans had been set in stone quite yet for a trailer release date, but expects that “at some point fairly soon Amazon will brief us on their plans for how they plan to release the show.”

So the good news is that Good Omens season 2 is officially finished! This sparked a bit of discussion about trailers in general, with the author reminding everyone that they often don’t come out as far ahead of television shows as you’d think:

"When we didn’t have a proper trailer for Sandman four months before it came out, there were people on Twitter who started claiming that it must have been cancelled by Netflix because what other possible explanation could there be?My suggestion that TV trailers don’t air too early was met with scorn and bafflement."

For the record, we just need to throw our voice behind Mr. Gaiman here: especially in recent years, the lead time between TV show trailers and their premiere dates has grown smaller and smaller. The Sandman is a great example; the trailer hit barely a month before the series was due to land on Netflix. This sort of window has become increasingly common, with the exception of huge tent pole series like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power or House of the Dragon.

Fortunately, Gaiman doesn’t sound like he’s running out of patience anytime soon for fielding these sorts of questions from fans. When asked if it ever gets to him that people keep popping into his inbox with these inquiries about the show, he gave the sort of gracious answer which helps illustrate why people love him so much in the first place:

"Given the choice between excited people wanting to know stuff about a show they are definitely going to watch and unimpressed people not caring I would pick the former any day. So no, I never lose patience or find it irritating that people care so much."

Good Omens season 2 is due out this summer on Amazon Prime Video. We don’t know when a trailer will be out for the series yet, but you can bet that as soon as it drops we’ll be talking about it.

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