When Good Omens premiered in the spring of 2019 on Prime Video, Amazon's platform, the project was sold as a miniseries: the mission of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to join forces to stop the apocalypse. They were ambassadors of opposing sides, Good and Evil, but they discovered that they had a lot in common after getting used to the Earth and its dynamics, and perhaps they could guide the Antichrist to, well, not end everything.
However, after the broadcast of a second season in summer 2023, Amazon and BBC, which produces the series in the United Kingdom, are about to close an agreement to produce a third and final season. According to Deadline, given the imminent renewal, the contracts of Michael Sheen and David Tennant, who play the angel and the devil with a unique relationship, have already been renewed to ensure that so much negotiation is not for nothing.
Good Omens, titled Good Omens in its Spanish version, was published in 1990 after a four-handed collaboration between two revered authors of fantasy literature: Terry Pratchett, author of more than forty novels set in Discworld (a fictional universe set in a flat planet), and Neil Gaiman, who after this novel wrote from Sandman to Stardust or American Gods.
Although they wrote only one novel and this was adapted in its entirety in the first season, Gaiman as a screenwriter works from the ideas that he thought with Pratchett before his death and that they could not transfer to the page in time. And, after a second season that served as a link between the ideas developed between Gaiman and Pratchett, in the third he will be able to finish narrating the sequel they conceived together.
Of course, who will not be in the third season is Douglas Mackinnon, who served as executive producer, director and co-showrunner in the first seasons. As he announced from his Instagram account, he has left the Good Omens universe permanently.
