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Across the board, Neil Gaiman adaptations have been canceled or quickly wrapped up in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations made against the author. In the case of Prime Video’s Good Omens, Gaiman stepped away from the production as an executive producer, and the planned third and final season was reduced to a single, feature-length finale episode. Speaking with The Times last week, star Michael Sheen expressed doubt that the episode would ever be released (“I really don’t know what’s going to happen with it”), though a source involved tells The A.V. Club that the finale is still moving forward.
In his first remarks on the subject since the allegations against Gaiman came to light, Sheen said he and co-star David Tennant “were both relieved we finished the story, but that’s within this really difficult, complicated, disturbing context.” He added, “I hope people get to see it, but that, to a large extent, is out of our hands.” A release date for the finale has not yet been announced.
Gaiman has been accused of misconduct by multiple women. He has maintained that his sexual encounters have been consensual, and went so far as to sue one of his accusers for more than $500,000 for breaching her non-disclosure agreement. Tennant also gave a rather roundabout comment on Gaiman on the ITV series The Assembly in April. One interviewee on the show asked the actor, “Someone you’ve worked with, a friend, has been cancelled for some quite serious allegations. How has that affected you?” Clarifying the question was in regard to the Good Omens writer, Tennant responded (via The Independent), “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.” He added, “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.”
