Good Omens finally confirms season 3 release date after 3 years of waiting

Almost three years after the climactic end to Good Omens season two, Amazon Prime Video has confirmed when it will return for its final outing.

The fantasy series, based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990s novel of the same name, follows unlikely allies: angel turned reclusive rare bookseller Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and grouchy demon Crowley (David Tennant), as they face down the apocalypse.

The last episode ended on a dramatic cliffhanger after the chalk-and-cheese duo finally shared a kiss before parting ways once more.

Fans are keen to see the pair reconcile and have their happy ending – and defeat some universe-ending foes at the same time, of course. Now we know the 90-minute finale special will come out on May 13, 2026.

The short teaser shows the lights switching on along the street. We then zoom in on Aziraphale’s bookstore, A.Z. Fell & Co, where the closed sign is flipped around to show ‘open’.

However, since the second season came out, the show has become embroiled in controversy after author Gaiman (who was also an executive producer on the series) had several sexual assault allegations levelled against him – all of which he has denied.

As such, the British author’s career has come to a halt with all his ongoing projects, including The Sandman and Dead Boy Detectives, coming to an end.

After pre-production was initially paused, it was eventually confirmed that the third Good Omens season would be the last and consist of a 90-minute special to conclude the story for fans.

In October 2024, Deadline also confirmed that Gaiman had reportedly agreed to roll back his involvement from the finale.

During an episode of The Assembly, Doctor Who star Tennant was asked ’someone you’ve worked with, a friend, has been cancelled for some quite serious allegations. How has that affected you?’, further clarifying he was referring to Good Omens.

The 54-year-old Scottish actor responded: ‘We’re doing Good Omens again. We’re going back to do the final. We’re doing a final. There’s been a slight rejig with the personnel.

‘But we still get to tell that story – I think it would have been very difficult to leave it on a cliffhanger. So I’m glad that’s been worked out.’

Meanwhile, talking to The Times in June, Sheen said: ‘I really don’t know what’s going to happen with it.

‘We were both relieved we finished the story, but that’s within this really difficult, complicated, disturbing context. I hope people get to see it, but that, to a large extent, is out of our hands.’

Filming for the finale took place in Scotland in early-2025 and it seems that a cast and crew screening took place in December.

Sheen took to social media to confirm the screening news, adding: ‘I laughed and I cried. There’ll be bits you absolutely love, and there’ll be things you argue about, of course.

‘It should have been six episodes, but it’s not. Thank God for what it is. Brilliantly directed, beautiful performances, fantastic new looks, incredible work all around.’

Earlier this month, Gaiman returned to social media after a lengthy silence.

In 2024,  Gaiman was accused of sexual assault and abuse by five women, including the former nanny of his young son with his now estranged wife, musician Amanda Palmer.

At the time, he said he’d ‘never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone’.

Two years on from the initial statements, he returned to Facebook earlier this month to hit out at the ‘smear campaign’ against him.

He then doubled down on his denial, adding: ‘ The allegations against me are completely and simply untrue. There are emails, text messages and video evidence that flatly contradict them.’

He then claimed his latest project is ‘the biggest thing I’ve done since American Gods’.

After the allegations first came out, production on the Disney feature adaptation of his YA novel The Graveyard Book also came to a halt.

Good Omens season three arrives on Amazon Prime Video on May 13, 2026.

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