Good Omens

There have been so many words written about the expanse of genre here at io9, and 2023 was a wildcard of a year for entertainment (including Marvel Studios, Star Wars, DC Studios, and Max), theme parks, and games. We covered a lot of ground, from union-strong solidarity during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to…Read more... There have been so many words written about the expanse of genre here at io9, and 2023 was a wildcard of a year for entertainment (including Marvel Studios, Star Wars, DC Studios, and Max), theme…

Screenshot: AmazonThe end is nigh, and Good Omens is preparing for it again. Having evolved from a limited series exploring the story of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s beloved novel into its own magical continuation of ideas from the pair left unpublished, now Good Omens is ready to call time on Amazon... and on the Apocalypse.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedAmazon has confirmed that Good Omens’ now-official third season will be its last. With the second season earlier this year ending on a…

Screenshot: Prime VideoPass into the after worlds with the Good Omens cast and crew in this new featurette from Prime Video, which is one of more than a dozen “exclusive behind-the-scenes videos” which will be available via Prime Video’s X-Ray. “If season one is a comedy about the end of the world, season two is a comedy about the beginning of everything else,” says showrunner Douglas Mackinnon.Good Omens Is Back | Behind the Scenes With Cast & Creators | Prime VideoGood Omens stars Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, David…

Good Omens fans know what it means to pine for a couple to be together. Season two adds more shipping to the mix with Nina (Nina Sosanya) and Maggie (Maggie Service), shopkeeper neighbors of bookselling angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen). If their names and faces are familiar, that’s because you’ve seen them together before: as Satanic nuns in Good Omens season one.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer(This interview was conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.)This time around, of…

When Good Omens returns next week, fans of Prime Video’s Neil Gaiman-Terry Pratchett adaptation will notice some interesting things about the supporting cast. There are familiar faces playing new characters—and an unfamiliar face playing a familiar character: Shelley Conn (Bridgerton, Gen V) as Beelzebub.V. E. Schwab on Her New Fantasy Series, Anime, and Book Recommendations | io9 Interview (Part 2)(This interview was conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.)We get to see a lot more of Beelzebub as part of…

Good Omens is back, thank heaven and hell, and with it Michael Sheen and David Tennant as the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley. Ahead of Prime Video’s second season following the cosmic characters created by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett, io9 caught up with the fan-favorite stars.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer(These interviews were conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.)Season one of Good Omens showed us Aziraphale and Crowley hanging out in the Garden of…

Nightbreed (1990) Official TrailerLeave it to Clive Barker, whose Pinhead—terrifying, yes, but so wry and witty—almost made this list, to dream up grotesque demons who lurk beneath a graveyard but also happen to be folks you’d want to party with, or at the very least help them protect their particular way of life from the encroaching stain of humanity.Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to…

The world may be perpetually teetering on the brink of doom, but at least we have Aziraphale and Crowley coming back to help us cope. Season two of Prime Video’s Good Omens, co-created by Neil Gaiman and starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant, drops in July—and the first trailer is here now.Good Omens Season 2 - Official Trailer | Prime VideoBilled as “a mystery that takes us from before the Beginning, to biblical times, grave robbing in Victorian Edinburgh, the Blitz of 1940s England, all the way through to modern…

Image: Amazon Prime VideoAfter 2019's incredible first season on Prime Video, Good Omens fans—demons and angels alike—have been longing for any season two news. After months of “wait and see” from both the streaming service and creator Neil Gaiman, we finally have a clip with a bit more information, coming at you straight from the New York Comic Con panel. io9 was there for the panel earlier today, and here’s what we saw: the clip shows Nina Sosanya (playing “Nina”) in SoHo, working in a coffee shop. A kind-of naive new…