Good Omens will return for season 3, but it'll be quite a bit different than what was originally planned. TV Line reports that they've learned from inside sources that the third season of Prime Video's hit fantasy show is going through a bit of a restructure. Instead of being multiple episodes long like the previous two seasons, Good Omens' third and final outing will only consist of one 90-minute episode. In other words, the show is going out with a TV movie.
This almost certainly comes about as a result of the ongoing sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman, who co-authored the original Good Omens novel with beloved Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and was set to serve as the sole showrunner for the television show's final season. Back in early September, Prime Video paused work on Good Omens season 3 over these allegations, with Gaiman offering to step away from the series if it meant it could move forward.
Now, production is set to move forward again with both Michael Sheen and David Tennant returning as the angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley repsectively. But it will do so without Gaiman. TV Line reports that his role will be "limited" — more specifically, Gaiman contributed to the writing of this final 90-minute episode of the series, but will not be involved in the actual production when it comes time to film it.
Good Omens scrapping plans for a full third season is a shame, but probably for the best
Overall, this news seems like a compromise that's unlikely to make anybody happy — either the cast and crew who worked on the series and wanted to run it through to its ending, the fans who wanted a fuller experience, or those who want to see Gaiman held more accountable for his actions. Perhaps that means the compromise is a good one, though. Good Omens gets a truncated run through its ending, without Gaiman involved on set, so that this series which has meant so much to its fans at least gets to say farewell.
To date, five women have come forward with allegations against Gaiman, including a 23-year-old nanny who claimed the author had assaulted her within hours of their first meeting, and a young woman who met Gaiman at a book signing when she was only 18 and formed a relationship with him a few years later that led to “rough and painful” sex that “she neither wanted nor enjoyed." The allegations were originally reported by Tortoise Media on their podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. Gaiman has insisted that these situations were consensual in a statement obtained by Tortoise, but has yet to make any sort of public remarks about the allegations.
Good Omens season 3 is based on a conversation that Gaiman and co-author Terry Pratchett had about a potential sequel for their 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 December 2023. "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."
We'll see how it all shakes out when Good Omens season 3 premieres its 90-minute series finale. It's due to start filming in early 2025, which means we'll either be watching that year or the next.
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