The Scooby-Doo franchise recently expanded with its first-ever adult animated series titled Velma. Although the series was HBO Max’s most-watched animated series debut ever, it also became IMDb’s lowest-rated animated series. And, despite the backlash, it looks like Velma Season 2 has officially entered development.
This news comes via Deadline where they noted chairman and CEO of Warner Television Group, Channing Dungey, currently has his team working on the new season. Of course, this may be shocking for some viewers that didn’t expect the season to be renewed. But as mentioned – it did become HBO Max’s most-watched animated series debut ever.
Here’s what they were able to say about the development of Velma Season 2:
“Dungey’s team is working on a second season of Scooby-Doo spinoff Velma, an adult animated comedy that comes from Mindy Kaling,” the report confirmed.
Of course, this leaves us with little information regarding release date details or what the plot could consist of. But given how Velma Season 1 ended – we’ll likely continue to see the growth of the characters as they resemble more and more of the teenaged sleuths we recognize from the original Scooby-Doo series. Perhaps we’ll have more news soon.
The series stars Mindy Kaling as Velma, in addition to Sam Richardson as Norville, Constance Wu as Daphne, and Glenn Howerton as Fred. The cast for the series also includes Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Russell Peters, Melissa Fumero, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, Ming-Na Wen, Ken Leung, Cherry Jones, Frank Welker, Fortune Feimster, Yvonne Orji, Sarayu Blue, Nicole Byer, Shay Mitchell, Debby Ryan, Kulap Vilaysak, and Karl-Anthony Towns.
Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional Velma updates as we have them. As for now, however, it looks like Scooby-Doo fans will be getting more of this spin-off show whether they want it or not. The first season of Velma is currently streaming via HBO Max.