Yahoo News Neil Gaiman reveals if Good Omens will return for season 2
The long-awaited adaptation of Good Omens is bringing Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's book, plus a little of the planned sequel, to the screen.
Last year, Gaiman told Digital Spy that elements from a never-completed follow-up to the 1990 novel have found their way into the TV series.
"I wound up drawing from the planned book follow-up for this," he explained in 2018.
"[Things like] expanding into heaven and hell – and we have Jon Hamm as the angel Gabriel, and Gabriel is not in the book, but he and the other angels, and a bunch of the other demons, come from all the conversations Terry Pratchett and I had about what we would do in a second book."
Does that mean, then, that all material has been exhausted and a second season is off the cards? After all, American Gods – based on one of Gaiman's solo novels – has expanded considerably on the source material...
Speaking to Digital Spy and other press on set for Good Omens, though, Gaiman suggested that the two adaptations are very different beasts.
"We always knew that we wanted to make the book," he said. "It's such a beloved book. American Gods... it is a road trip and the glorious thing about road trips is they can go longer. It is intentionally fairly shapeless."
The author – who serves as showrunner on the Good Omens series – didn't totally rule out a second season, but suggested that there's only a slim possibility of more episodes.
"If people love this enough, and if the time and the will is there, we could absolutely go back and do a lot more," he said.
"But we're not building it to do more, we are building this to be itself. At the end of six episodes, it's done."
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Good Omens follows a demon named Crowley (David Tennant) and an angel named Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) as they work to prevent the rise of the Anti-Christ and the end of the world.
For his part, Sheen told us he'd be interested in a follow-up, though only if Gaiman was involved. "It would depend on if there was another story," he said. It’d have to be by Neil.
"It would depend on what it was, really. But I love the character, and I love the world of it."
Good Omens launches on Friday, May 31 on Amazon Prime Video.
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