Neil Gaiman: The Sandman season 2 is "astonishing," Good Omens season 3 films in 2025

Neil Gaiman has been a creative force for decades, but recently a lot of his most popular works have been adapted to the screen, exposing him to more people than ever. On Netflix you have The Sandman, an adaptation of his seminal comic book about a family of immortals beings who are also manifestations of different aspects of the human condition. And on Amazon Prime Video you have Good Omens, an adaptation of the 1990 book Gaiman wrote with the late Terry Pratchett.

Netflix is preparing a second season of The Sandman while Prime Video is readying a third and final season of Good Omens. Speaking to Deadline, Gaiman gave minor updates on both: "I’ve seen half of Sandman Season 2, and it’s astonishing," he said. "I’m writing Good Omens Season 3, and we start shooting that in January."

The first season of The Sandman was a ton of fun, adapting Gaiman's very strange story with heart, wit and restraint. We don't know when the second season is coming out, but it's good to know that it's far enough along for Gaiman to have already seen half of it, to say nothing of his impression that it's "astonishing." Dare we hope for a late 2024 release?

As for Good Omens, if filming on season 3 isn't going to start until January of 2025, we're going to be waiting a while to see those final episodes. The first season of Good Omens adpated the entirety of the book. Season 3 will adapt a sequel that Gaiman and Pratchett came up with but never got a chance to write. It sounds like it may be 2026 before we see what becomes of the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the demon Crowley (David Tennant), who broke up at the end of season 2.

Neil Gaiman: The "gold rush" of streaming content is over

Although it's annoying to have to wait so long between seasons of shows like this, the fact that we're getting them at all is pretty cool. Both The Sandman and Good Omens were greenlit during a time when streamers were trying to create as much content as possible to attract subscribers. These days, streamers are more careful how they spend their resources.

That's what Gaiman and other creatives were talking to Deadline about: the latest rounds of Hollywood cost cutting. “I sort or remember somewhere in 2019, I remember looking around and saying, ‘This is a gold rush. We’re in a boom town. And I’m not sure how long this thing is sustainable,’" Gaiman mused. "And I was thrilled to have been able to, you know, to help get Sandman set up during the boom and stuff like that. Right now, the boom is over, the gold rush has finished...

"And I don’t know what it’s gonna be like, five years from now. But I do know that a writer who can come up with stories, who has a great story that people will care about, will have a job, and that’s the important thing and especially for the young ones."

However long we have to wait for new episodes of our favorite shows, let's appreciate the bounty we have while we have it.

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