Good Omens Shocker: Final Season Will Consist of One Episode, With Neil Gaiman’s Involvement Limited Following Sexual Assault Allegations
The saga of Aziraphale and Crowley will end much sooner than anyone expected.
Good Omens’ third and final season will consist of just one, 90-minute episode, TVLine has learned. And though showrunner Neil Gaiman contributed to the episode’s writing, he will not work on the production.
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Gaiman’s limited role behind the scenes comes after Tortoise Media’s Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. In the podcast, released in early July, the fantasy author was accused by a 23-year-old woman of sexually assaulting her within hours of their first meeting at his New Zealand residence, where she worked as nanny to his child. (Gaiman has said that only consensual digital penetration occurred during their three-week relationship.) A second accuser says she was 18 when she met Gaiman at a book signing, then began a relationship with him at age 20, during which she submitted to “rough and painful” sex that “she neither wanted nor enjoyed.” (Gaiman denied any unlawful behavior.)
Two more women have since come forward with their own allegations, all of which Gaiman has denied and said he is “disturbed” by.
In early September, TVLine’s sister site Deadline reported that Gaiman offered to step away from production on Season 3. Production now is slated to get going in early 2025, with Michael Sheen and David Tennant returning as the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley, respectively.
Gaiman served as sole showrunner on Good Omens since October 2023, following the departure of Douglas Mackinnon, who also served as director and executive producer in Seasons 1 and 2. (“Douglas has moved on to other projects,” Gaiman said at the time on his Bluesky page.) Weeks after Mackinnon’s exit, Good Omens was renewed for a third and final season.
The farewell run “will bring to life a serendipitous conversation from almost 35 years ago, between Neil Gaiman and the late Sir Terry Pratchett, where they mapped out ‘what happens next’ to the wonderful characters in the world of their internationally best-selling novel,” Prime Video said in announcing the series’ end.
“I’m so happy finally to be able to finish the story Terry and I plotted in 1989 and in 2006,” Gaiman said in December. “Terry was determined that if we made Good Omens for television, we could take the story all the way to the end. Season 1 was all about averting Armageddon, dangerous prophecies, and the End of the World. Season 2 was sweet and gentle, although it may have ended less joyfully than a certain Angel and Demon might have hoped. Now in Season 3, we will deal once more with the end of the world. The plans for Armageddon are going wrong. Only Crowley and Aziraphale working together can hope to put it right. And they aren’t talking.”
Gaiman also is an executive producer on Netflix’s series adaptation of his DC Comics title The Sandman. But when the streamer recently released a behind-the-scenes look at the forthcoming Season 2, Gaiman was not pictured nor mentioned in both the video and Netflix’s official preview of the show’s sophomore run.
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