Good Omens season 2: where to watch, interview, cast, trailer, and everything we know

Nina Sosanya: “Completely unexpected, because we thought we had done it. I knew that there wasn't another book written, and if there had been, I'd have been really annoyed that I hadn't found it! So it was just really exciting getting an email from Neil Gaiman saying, ‘I am thinking about this, what do you reckon?’ I didn’t know anything about what direction it was going to go in, or even what kind of character I was going to be playing because it clearly was not going to be a satanic nun this time!”

Maggie Service: “Yes, in season one, we told the story of the book, we'd finished it. So it was a really beautiful, unexpected surprise to be back for two. I'm so thrilled that we are.”

Nina Sosanya: “Nina puts up a front. I don't think she's particularly aware of what she's actually feeling or has any idea of the effect that she has on anyone else. I think you’d describe her as someone who doesn't suffer fools gladly, so she comes across as a little bit ‘minty’!”  

Maggie Service: “Maggie is very loyal and kind and she's very sure of her emotions, but possibly not quite sure how to get the things that she wants. That is where she is at the beginning.”

Maggie Service: “They're a perfect balance for each other. And that was lovely to play. Maggie is a regular customer [at Nina’s coffee shop], but they have never really had conversations, so what happens when they spend some time together?”

Nina Sosanya: “Outside influences sort of chuck them together, which suits one of them and maybe not the other! They are literally from the other side of the road and there is this river of life in between them. But that's what's fun, that something happens that's otherworldly, and has seemingly nothing to do with them and it’s what brings them within each other's sphere. But it’s all really juicy with miscommunications.”

Nina Sosanya: “Nina and Maggie don't really understand or know who and what they are, so they only relate to them in their own human ways. Mr Fell [the name by which they know Aziraphale] to Nina is this rather stuffy, prissy bloke across the road who runs a bookshop. He doesn't seem to want to have any customers, which to Nina is insane and bad business!”

Maggie Service: “To Maggie, Aziraphale is just the kindest man on Earth of all time ever. 

"And I don't know if they all quite see it themselves, but there are quite a lot of similarities between the four of them actually.” 

Nina Sosanya: “It's like being in a toyshop or a playground! We were running around peeking into all the shops, probably putting our paws on things we shouldn't. But every part of the set, you could just turn the camera on and it would make some lovely, logical sense within the Good Omens world. It's just a real feast.”

Maggie Service: “I named all my little objects behind the till, there is just so much detail everywhere in the record shop. The records in the middle of the shop are real, but all the artwork around the outside is by the art department so between takes, I was just looking at the track listings of these hilarious made up bands. It was absolute genius. And I want them all to be released on vinyl immediately!” 

Maggie Service: “I think it gives people a space to be ‘other,’ and explains that the universe is huge, and whoever you are, you are allowed to take up space. That's just a blissful message to have at the heart of things.”

Nina Sosanya: “Yes, it's just such a warm, witty take and reinterpretation of all the traditional tales that we already have that are inbuilt in human history and societies. And it says that as insignificant as you are, you're incredibly significant.”