‘Good Omens’ to Conclude With Long Final Episode, Without Neil Gaiman

Good Omens, which paused production on its third and final season amid the sexual assault allegations against its author Neil Gaiman, will instead wrap up the series with a 90-minute episode.

Amazon Prime Video initially renewed Good Omens for its final season last year following the arrival of Season Two in July 2023. However, since then, at least five women have come forward with accusations against Gaiman, including allegations of “rough and degrading sex” and coercion.

Soon after, production on the series’ third season was halted, with Gaiman offering to step down from his showrunner role on Good Omens in an effort to bring the series to a conclusion. Deadline reports that Gaiman has indeed severed ties from the show and its production company — even though he did write some of the series finale — and that the show will return to production in early 2025, albeit with for one final episode instead of its usual six-episode season.

Good Omens‘ suspended pre-production followed news that Disney+ similarly paused their plans to adapt Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book into a feature film, which had been in the works since 2022.

In July, Gaiman denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships at the time, according to Tortoise Media. The allegations were made during Tortoise’s four-part podcast Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman. In the podcast, the women allege “rough and degrading sex” with the author, which the women claim was not always consensual.

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The following month, three more women came forward with allegations of sexual assault and abuse against Gaiman. Tortoise Media released a fifth episode of their podcast that detailed two more women’s accusations, one of whom allegedly signed a nondisclosure agreement following her experience with Gaiman. A third woman, using the pseudonym Claire, spoke out about her experience with Gaiman on a separate podcast, accusing the author of sexual misconduct. 

Following Tortoise Media’s initial four-episode podcast, Gaiman denied all the allegations against him and added he was “disturbed” by the accusations.