When it comes to the possibility of a third season of Good Omens, perhaps there’s no one more optimistic than Neil Gaiman himself. In August, the novelist and screenwriter said that if Prime Video didn’t renew the series, he would write a sequel as a novel. But now, with the writers’ strike resolved, he’s writing the series again. Even though it hasn’t officially been renewed.
Yesterday, someone on Bluesky asked Gaiman if he’d be working on the scripts again now that the strike is over; his one-word response was “Yes.” Another hopeful fan asked if the show had been picked up for a third season, to which Gaiman replied, “No. But I’ve been hired to write one.” Make of that what you will.
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Gaiman has given other little details on the writing of the much-dreamed-of third season on Tumblr, writing,
If it wasn’t for strikes I’d have most of it written by now. As it is, a first draft of Episode 1 and the final fifteen pages of Episode 6 (in case I get hit by a bus) are written, and the rest of it has to wait until the strike is done and we can pick up our pens.
He also pointed out that—should the series get renewed—it’s likely it wouldn’t be on screens until 2026, given the amount of time it takes from production to release. (And the fact that SAG-AFTRA are still on strike, and nothing is shooting until that situation is resolved.)
If people seem extra supremely hopeful for the show’s third season, there’s a really good reason for that: Maybe, maybe it’s something like the sequel that Gaiman and Good Omens co-author Terry Pratchett dreamed up all the way back in 1989. Gaiman told Metro that the show’s second season, “is not that sequel, which is huge and apocalyptic like the first one was huge and apocalyptic. This one is the smaller, not terribly apocalyptic filling to get us from one to the other.”
Not terribly apocalyptic, perhaps, but terribly meaningful for fans all the same. And if that was the “filling,” then it does follow that season three might be the other slice of bread in the apocalyptic sandwich.
One way or the other, Neil Gaiman is on it. “Season 3 is all planned and plotted,” he previously said on Tumblr, “and, if I get to make it, will take the story and the people in it we care about to a satisfying end.”
