At just six episodes, “Good Omens” is a quick binge-watch. Audiences are already wondering if Amazon Prime and the BBC will renew the show for Season 2, but showrunner Neil Gaiman has made it clear that the show is a limited series.

“We’re not specifically building it to do more, we are building this to be itself,” Gaiman told RadioTimes in 2017. “At the end of six episodes, it’s done.”

“Good Omens” follows a demon (David Tennant) and an angel (Michael Sheen) as they team up to stop the antichrist from starting Armageddon.

Gaiman wrote all six episodes of “Good Omens,” and he also wrote the 1990 novel with Terry Pratchett. Readers know that the TV series covered the end of the book. Is Gaiman willing to go beyond the source material?

“Terry and I also plotted a sequel to ‘Good Omens’ that we never did,” Gaiman added. “It was about where the angels actually came from, which is why it was pretty easy to add extra angels [including Jon Hamm’s Gabriel] to this. And having come up with that plot, we know that if people love this enough and if the time and the will is there, we could absolutely go back and do a lot more.”

More recently, Gaiman stressed that the series wasn’t built with the expectation of a second season, and he seemed to really emphasize that the show has a firm ending during a March SXSW panel.

“Season 1 of ‘Good Omens’ is ‘Good Omens.’ It’s brilliant. It finishes. You have six episodes and we’re done. We won’t try to build in all these things to try to let it continue indefinitely,” Gaiman said (via Entertainment Weekly).

Ultimately, that’s up to Amazon and BBC Studios, who are co-producing the series. They get to decide if it’s canceled or renewed. Although it wouldn’t be a cancellation so much as an intended ending, the companies could decide to renew the series if it’s a runaway hit. For now, though, it seems like “Good Omens” is just a six-episode series.

Good Omens Season 2
"Good Omens" likely won't return for Season 2. Amazon Prime
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