Coming Soon - Good Omens Series 2 - Here's Everything We Know So Far

By Wendy Chiles for Bitch Goddesses 

Premiere Date: Summer 2023

When the second season began filming, creator Neil Gaiman said in a statement that demon Crowley (David Tennant) and angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) will have “new adventures with old friends” and “solve some extremely mysterious mysteries” while encountering “some entirely new humans (living, dead, and otherwise), angels, and demons.” ""It's thirty-one years since ‘Good Omens’ was published, which means it's thirty-two years since Terry Pratchett and I lay in our respective beds in a Seattle hotel room at a World Fantasy Convention, and plotted the sequel. I got to use bits of the sequel in Good Omens -- that's where our angels came from. Terry's not here any longer, but when he was, we had talked about what we wanted to do with ‘Good Omens,’ and where the story went next." And now, thanks to BBC Studios and Amazon, I get to take it there. I have enlisted some wonderful collaborators, and John Finnemore has come on board to carry the torch with me. There are so many questions people have asked about what happened next (and also, what happened before) to our favourite Angel and Demon. Here are the answers you've been hoping for. We are back in Soho, and all through time and space, solving a mystery, which starts with an angel wandering through Soho, with no memory."

As of now, Amazon has not publicly released an official trailer for Good Omens Season 2, but they did show a clip at the show's NYCC 2022 panel. According to Collider's Maggie Lovitt, this brief clip shows Aziraphale and Crowley interacting with a new character, who may be very important this season.

In addition to Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex) and David Tennant (Doctor Who) returning, other returning actors from the first season of Good Omens include Jon Hamm (Mad Men) as the archangel Gabriel, Derek Jacobi (Gosford Park) as the "Voice of God" that's also separate from God called Metatron, Niamh Walsh (The Sandman) as a Nazi agent from 1941 named Greta Kleinschmidt, Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen) as a bookseller from 1941 named Mr. Harmony, Steve Pemberton (Inside No. 9) as another bookseller from 1941 named Mr. Glozier, Reece Shearsmith (High-Rise) as the famous English playwright William Shakespeare, Doon Mackichan (The Day Today) as the archangel Michael, and Gloria Obianyo (Dune) as the archangel Uriel.

New characters include, Quelin Sepulveda plays Muriel, a well-meaning angel that the actress describes as "gullible and curious." According to Gaiman, Muriel spent the last 6,000 years in a boring office job that she desperately wants to get out of. The NYCC clip shows Muriel arriving on Earth and meeting Aziraphale and Crowley. She tells the former that she's human, but the latter is suspicious of her presence. This preview also shows Muriel not knowing how to act like a human as she struggles to hold a cup and drink tea. Sepulveda has only appeared in two short films, Late Nights at the Movies and The Other End, and two episodes of the Showtime series The Man Who Fell to Earth, but she will appear in the upcoming action-thriller Havoc starring Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker.

Maggie Service plays Maggie, a record store owner whose business is right next to Aziraphale's bookshop in Soho. Service played the satanic nun Sister Theresa Garrulous in the first season. She has also appeared in several other shows including Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, and Quiz as well as the 2015 film London Road starring Olivia Colman, Anita Dobson, and Tom Hardy.

Nina Sosanya plays Nina, a coffee shop whose "Give me coffee or give me death" business is right across from Maggie's record store. She is also reportedly good at handling the Soho crowd. Sosanya played the satanic nun Sister Mary Loquacious, who later reinvented herself as Mary Lodges, in the first season. She has also appeared in several other shows such as Killing Eve, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and His Dark Materials as well as several movies such as Love Actually, Manderlay, and Juliet, Naked.

Miranda Richardson plays Shax, a new demon who takes over for Crowley after he is fired from hell. Not much is known about her character at this time, but the stone-cold look she gives in a promo image suggests she's not someone to be trifled with. Richardson played the human Medium Madame Tracy in Season 1. She is also an Oscar and Emmy nominee as she's popped up in various movies such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Crying Game, and Chicken Run as well as various shows such as Merlin, Rubicon, and Parade's End.

Shelley Conn plays the new Beelzebub, leader of the forces of hell. Reportedly, this character has another name, so she's different from the Beelzebub seen in Season 1. It's unclear why Conn's character is the new Beelzebub, but this reason will hopefully be revealed soon enough. Conn is best known for playing Lady Mary Sharma in the highly popular Netflix series Bridgerton and plays an unspecified main character in Prime Video's upcoming superhero series The Boys: Gen V.

Good Omens Season 2 also introduces Liz Carr (Silent Witness) as another new angel named Saraqael. Other new actors include Siân Phillips (I, Claudius), Tim Downie (Outlander), Pete Firman (Peacock Season), Andi Osho (Line of Duty), and Alex Norton (The Count of Monte Cristo).