Amazon's Good Omens has been renewed for a surprise season 2, with stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant set to return. In 2019, Amazon debuted a miniseries based on the 1990 novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchwritten by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Starring Sheen as kindhearted angel Aziraphale and Tennant as rebellious demon Crowley, the series focused on the unlikely pair as they worked to stop the Apocalypse - one that they inadvertently almost caused. Good Omens was greeted with positive reviews and inspired a passionate fanbase online, making it one of the biggest shows of the year.

Despite that fervent reception, Good Omens seemed destined to remain a miniseries. Though Gaiman and Pratchett had an idea for a sequel, it never came to pass, and Pratchett's death in 2015 seemed to indicate nothing more would come of it. Gaiman himself, who was an executive producer and writer on the series, even said he couldn't see Good Omens continuing for another season. For two years, that matter laid dormant.

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All of that has changed. Amazon announced Tuesday that Good Omens has been renewed for season 2, with Gaiman, Sheen, and Tennant all returning. Production is expected to take place later this year in Scotland, with an eye on premiering on Amazon sometime later. The new episodes will explore storylines beyond the book to "illuminate the uncanny friendship between Aziraphale, a fussy angel and rare book dealer, and the fast-living demon Crowley. Having been on Earth since The Beginning and with the Apocalypse thwarted, Aziraphale and Crowley are getting back to easy living amongst mortals in London’s Soho when an unexpected messenger presents a surprising mystery." Gaiman said in a statement:

“It's thirty-one years since ‘Good Omens’ was published, which means it's thirty-two years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at a World Fantasy Convention, and plotted the sequel. I got to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens -- that's where our angels came from. Terry's not here any longer, but when he was, we had talked about what we wanted to do with ‘Good Omens,’ and where the story went next. And now, thanks to BBC Studios and Amazon, I get to take it there.  I have enlisted some wonderful collaborators, and John Finnemore has come on board to carry the torch with me. There are so many questions people have asked about what happened next (and also, what happened before) to our favourite Angel and Demon. Here are the answers you've been hoping for. We are back in Soho, and all through time and space, solving a mystery, which starts with an angel wandering through Soho, with no memory.”

Good Omens season 2 poster

Gaiman will once again write the scripts for Good Omens, though this time he will also be joined by John Finnemore. Original director Douglas Mackinnon will also return and serve as executive producer alongside Gaiman, Finnemore, Rob Wilkins, and BBC Studios Productions' Head of Comedy Josh Cole. It remains to be seen who else from the original Good Omens cast could return; the first season also starred Jon Hamm, Nick Offerman, Jack Whitehall, Adria Arjona, Miranda Richardson, and Michael McKean.

This news will likely be met with some shock from fans, since it has been two years since Good Omens first premiered. However, this is hardly the first miniseries to return for another season. Gaiman's involvement can help win over any skeptics; he's the one who knows best how Pratchett would have wished to proceed, and he can craft another delightfully funny story with Finnemore. Exactly where Good Omens will take Aziraphale and Crowley next remains to be seen, but it sounds like another Biblical crisis might be brewing. That would fall in line with where the first season left off. The news is certainly unexpected, but more Good Omens can only be a good thing (no pun intended).

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