“Now that the strikes is over, are you gonna to start writing Good Omens Season 3?” a user on the social media platform Bluesky asked Gaiman, to which he replied: “Yes.”
“Has it been renewed for a Season 3?” another user asked, to which he responded “No, but I’ve been hired to write one.”
Another follower said the announcement was “wonderful news” and asked if John Finnemore or other writers would also be involved, to which Gaiman said, “Right now just me.”
The update comes after Gaiman previously said on his Tumblr account that a third season was “all planned and plotted” but that the show wouldn’t get renewed for it “unless enough people watch Season 2 to make Amazon happy.”
“If I get to make it, will take the story and the people in it we care about to a satisfying end,” he added at the time. “If I wasn’t on strike I’d be writing it currently. Our set is still standing in a studio in Bathgate and we would all love to get back there and finish the story in the way Terry [Pratchett] and I plotted, long ago.”
In a separate post, he revealed that a first draft of Episode 1 and the final fifteen pages of Episode 6 were written prior to the WGA strike.
“If we shot it in 2024, it would probably be released in early ’26,” he added. “We started shooting S2 in October 2021. It’s about a year in post-production from wrap to release.”
I felt like s2 was just a huge fan service, and not only because of the last episode. Then the end was just too open.
I watched season 1 of this when it came out because I loved the book.
It’s been a while but I would have sworn that season 1 covered the whole story from the book.
Are seasons 2+3 both original/new content?
Apparently Gaiman and Pratchett had some ideas for a follow-up story, which Gaiman has fleshed out, teaming up with British comedy writer John Finniemore on the writing
That’s pretty cool, I guess I need to put season 2 on my ever growing list of things to watch.
I thought this was a picture of Ned Nederlander tbh
unpopular opinion: not a fan of anything written by this guy that i’ve seen on telly, ever. just doesn’t excite or turn me on in any way, and just all seems to pedestrian and painfully uninteresting. all of it.
It’s okay, you’re allowed to dislike something. Personally I don’t love his books, which is kind of sad since obviously people love them. I always figured Pratchett’s voice in Good Omens was the part I liked, since I like his other books but not Gaiman’s. Oh well.
Recommendations for Pratchett books as a starting point?
I’d just read the Discworld books in publication order as you get to see him world-building as he goes. After a bit you might start picking out specific books to follow the story of certain characters or settings but, initially, do it like we did back in the day - it’s a beautiful journey.
https://www.discworldemporium.com/quiz/
This will help with your question
This probably is be the show for you then. :)
