Good Omens Neil Gaiman rules out the idea of any more episodes beyond the first season
Make the most of these six episodes, folks.
hasnt yet had its premiere but showrunner Neil Gaiman has already ruled out ever making any more episodes.
The upcoming series, starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant, is just six episodes long and Gaiman has , no matter how successful it is.
"The lovely thing about Good Omens is it has a beginning, it has a middle, and it has an end," he said at SXSW after sharing 20 minutes of footage from the series  via  .
"Season 1 of Good Omens is Good Omens. Its brilliant. It finishes. You have six episodes and were done. We wont try to build in all these things to try to let it continue indefinitely."
The series is based on the 1990 novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and was considered unadaptable by many   something which Gaiman says spurred him on even more.
"It probably was impossible but we managed to do it somehow anyway," he said. "Pratchett and I could both picture this thing. We went out and talked to a lot of writers of television we admired and said, Would you like to do this? and they explained that they wouldn"t, because... they couldn"t quite get a grip on it.
"I was probably ready to just let it slide but Terry wrote to me and said, You"re the only person who has the same amount of love for Good Omens as I do and you understand it and you have to make this so I can see it before I die.
"And . Which left it as this awful last request. I had to do it."
Good Omens follows uptight angel Aziraphale  Sheen  and his reckless demon partner Crowley  Tennant  as they set out to try to prevent the end of the world.
The apocalyptic series also stars Jon Hamm as Aziraphale"s oblivious boss, the Archangel Gabriel, and .
The cast also includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Josie Lawrence, Jack Whitehall, Miranda Richardson, Frances McDormand and Derek Jacobi.
Good Omens will debut in the US on  on May 31, and will also be coming to BBC Two in the UK later in the year.
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