Good Omens star confirms she's returning for super-sized finale episode

A couple weeks back, fans of the Prime Video show Good Omens — about an unlikely friendship between the angle Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant) — got some bad news: no longer would the show's third and final season be...well, a season of TV. Instead, it will be one 90-minute episode that will wrap up all the stories the second season left dangling, most notably what will become of Aziraphale and Crowley now that they've parted ways, with Aziraphale returning to heaven to help plan the Second Coming and Crowley getting as far away from all that mess as he possibly can.

Fans have grown very attached to Aziraphale and Crowley, and many were upset with the news. The season is being cut down almost certainly because of a series of sexual assault allegations made against Neil Gaiman, who not only co-wrote the original Good Omens book alongside author Terry Pratchett but who was serving as showrunner on the TV series. Under the circumstances, fans may have to live with whatever they can get. At least there's a TV movie in the works instead of nothing.

Indeed, the wheels of production seem to be moving. Writing on Instagram about winning a BAFTA Scotland Award for her performance as Cathy in Two Doors Door, actor Doon Mackichan revealed that she would take part in the third season of Good Omens, or whatever Amazon ends up calling it:

Mackichan plays the Archangel Michael on the show, one of a number of pious bureaucrats who run heaven. "Happy to say will be back up in my favourite city in January to film Good Omens," she wrote.

The city she's talking about is Glasgow, if you're wondering. Also, that is some kind of awesome pose she's striking in that photo. Winning an award will do that to you.

So there you go: although the third and final season of Good Omens will be much shorter than expected, at least it will feature some of the supporting players we've come to know. There's no release date yet, but if production isn't getting started until January of 2025, we can expect it out in late 2025 at the earliest, and quite possibly in 2026.

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h/t RadioTimes