Good Omens season 2 panel at NYCC reveals characters and release date

Shows on BBC and Amazon Prime Good Omens was a miraculous miniseries that not only adapted Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 novel of the same, but also sparked new fans and reignited passions in old ones. Like the book, it follows Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), a happy-go-lucky angel, and Crowley (David Tennant), as they work together to stop the impending apocalypse. Even though Pratchett passed away before there was ever a sequel, the second season was still planned for 2021.

Beyond notable cast members returning and Gaiman’s involvement, however, there has been little revealed about this mysterious follow-up. Gaiman did not disclose much at the New York Comic Con panel.

“It’ll be about six episodes,” said Gaiman.

“And Aziraphale and Crowley will be in it,” added Good Omens director Douglas Mackinnon.

“I will say there are some love stories in it,” Gaiman continued. “I will say you will learn a lot about Jane Austen you Didn’t know before. There’s a lot more heaven and a lot more hell.”

in the middle of a crowded restaurant, Aziraphale, dressed in lighter colors, and Crowley, dressed in mostly black, have a toast on Good Omens

Eventually, though, Gaiman, Mackinnon, and executive producer Rob Wilkins (longtime business manager and friend of Pratchett’s) didThe second season will be released in summer 2023, they announced. While they were not open to discussing plot details, the cast did reveal some interesting details. Maggie Service and Nina Sosanya joined them onstage. They played two different nuns during the first season. The second will feature two new characters. Quelin Sepulveda will also be taking part in an entirely new role. Good Omens universe: A Muriel angel

Gaiman shared some details about the creation and development of the new character.

“When [Good Omens writer] John Finnemore and I were talking about what we wanted in season 2, we realized that one thing we didn’t have in heaven was — apart from Aziraphale — any nice, well-meaning angels,” he explained. “All we had were bastards.”

Muriel, a woman with dark hair in a pale suit, standing in a cream-colored room in Good Omens

Muriel was born. And as Sepulveda described the character, she is “so gullible and curious and she’s a bit chatty.”

“Muriel has spent about 6,000 years or more in the same office in heaven,” Gaiman said. “Just filing things and reading things, just hoping someone will come in and the day will get more interesting.”

Gaiman also spoke out about Muriel and other characters. Miranda Richardson is back as Shax. She plays Crowley’s evil medium Madam Tracy. And she isn’t the only character written with old cast members in mind.

“There were two characters in it, and I wanted them played by Maggie and Nina,” said Gaiman. “And in order to make it clear to everyone reading the script that those characters were going to be played by Maggie and Nina, I called them Maggie and Nina.”

“I think it was a bit lazy,” Mackinnon added.

“I play Maggie,” said Service with a laugh. “She runs a record shop which is besides Aziraphale’s bookshop in SoHo. It’s a shop that’s been passed through the generations. My shop look looks across…”

“Another shop!” said Sosanya, jumping in. “Which is a coffee shop. It’s called Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death. Nina is slightly more refined than me. The independent coffee shop she runs in SoHo is her business. Her ability to deal with customers who visit a SoHo coffee shop is impressive. She’s not afraid of dealing with people.”

Maggie, a blonde woman in a yellow cardigan, standing in a record shop in Good Omens

a woman with dark dreadlocks smirks in front of a shop that says GIVE ME COFFEE OR GIVE ME DEATH

Tennant and Sheen were joined by Zoom at the end of panel. Jon Hamm (the angel Gabriel) asked them some questions. Although Sheen and Tennant couldn’t be there in person, the cast and filmmakers spoke extensively about them — especially when it came to sharing stories from season 1.

“The truth was Michael was meant to have played Crowley,” Gaiman said. “[Then] I wrote a scene where Crowley comes down the center aIt isle of a church, hopping like a man on a beach on a hot day, because it’s Holy Ground, and then I thought… David Tennant would be good at that.”

Gaiman recalled an awkward dinner when he first showed Sheen the script and spent the entire night trying to summon the guts to tell Sheen that he wanted him to play Aziraphale instead of Crowley — only to learn that Sheen had the same exact thought.

As for embarking into this new era without a text to accompany it — and even Continue reading daunting, without Terry Pratchett — the producers knew they had a tough task, but said they did their best to honor Pratchett’s legacy.

“It’s interesting doing season 2 without the book,” said Mackinnon. “What Neil and the other writers have written for us is more Good Omens, and it has Terry right through.”

“I want to bring Terry to set every day, but it’s not a difficult task,” said Wilkins. “Because everyone knows the book has two authors. And Neil is there every day.”

The premiere season Good OmensPrime Video is streaming the video. The second one will follow next summer. You can see the updated poster here.