Looks like we haven’t won the war against Armageddon just yet: Season two of Good Omens, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett of the same name, is set to premiere on Prime Video in the summer of 2023. The announcement was made at the show’s New York Comic-Con panel, and while there aren’t many specifics regarding Season 3, we do know that Maggie Service, Nina Sosanya, and Miranda Richardson will all be returning in new roles, and that angel Muriel will be played by Quelin Sepulveda. At the New York Comic Con panel, we heard that Service and Sosanya would be portraying characters with their own names: a record store owner who is neighbours with Michael Sheen’s (Aziraphale) bookshop, and a coffee shop owner with horrible love life, respectively.
In the play, Richardson will portray Shacks, the demon who replaces Crowley when the latter is fired from hell, while Sepulveda’s Muriel is a so-called “good angel” who has spent the past six thousand years in the same office in heaven, reading and filing documents. We have yet to learn much about the upcoming second season, but we do know that it will continue the story beyond the events of the first season, which were limited to the events of the novel by Gaiman and Pratchett and took place through and including the end of the world. Especially since Pratchett passed away before the first season was produced, it is unclear how the second season will build upon the mythos established by the novel’s original authors.
However, given the enormous success of the first season, it is reasonable to assume that the show’s trademark wit and high-stakes adventures will return for the second. (Not to mention all of that Queen.) The voices of God and Lucifer will not be provided by Frances McDormand and Benedict Cumberbatch, respectively, but stars David Tennant and Sheen, as well as Jon Hamm as the Archangel Gabriel, will return. (Could that possibly suggest that Crowley and Aziraphale are immune to any future end-of-the-world scenarios?) Derek Jacobi, Niamh Walsh, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith are all back for season two, and they’re joined by newcomers Dame Siân Phillips, Tim Downie, Pete Firman, Andi Osho, and Alex Norton.
Good Omens, season 1, is now available to view on Prime Video. The release of season two is scheduled for the summer of 2023.