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In the wake of two seasons and a just-released Halloween special, it appears that Max’s adult animated Scooby-Doo series “Velma” has been cancelled by the Warner Bros. streamer.

Background artist Davey Cummings shares on Instagram this week, “There will not be a Season 3, but I hope I get to work with these amazing talented people again one day.”

Max has yet to release an official statement. Stay tuned for more.

“Velma” is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang.

In this year’s second season of the Max animated series: “When an even spookier mystery grips Crystal Cove, Velma (Mindy Kaling) must find a way to balance her detective work with the demands of her newfound popularity before it’s too late. Meanwhile, her faithful friends Daphne (Constance Wu), Norville (Sam Richardson), and...

Scooby-Doo character Velma Dinkley got her own “adult animated series” over on Max last year, and we’ve learned today that “Velma” Season 2 will premiere on April 25, 2024.

“Velma” is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang.

Here’s the official synopsis for “Velma” Season 2: “When an even spookier mystery grips Crystal Cove, Velma (Mindy Kaling) must find a way to balance her detective work with the demands of her newfound popularity before it’s too late. Meanwhile, her faithful friends Daphne (Constance Wu), Norville (Sam Richardson), and Fred (Glenn Howerton) are powerless to help thanks to their own personal battles and worse… Detention.”

Season 2 will feature Ten brand new episodes.

Russell Peters, Melissa Fumero, Sarayu Blue, Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, Cherry Jones, Frank Welker, Nicole Byer, Gary Cole, Andia Winslow, and Sara Ramirez also star.

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In 1969, Hanna-Barbera struck TV gold through the success of their latest Saturday-morning cartoon, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?. Revolving around the weekly adventures of a talking dog and his mystery-solving friends, the series emphasized detective work, intriguing monsters, and skepticism. Successfully blending horror and mysteries with a dose of science fiction, the series helped create one of TV's greatest formulas.

Scooby-Doo was released in 1969 and quickly proved to be a hit, so much so that it became the face of Hanna-Barbera, which was no stranger to Saturday morning cartoons. It wasn't long before the Scooby formula dominated kids' entertainment, with the 1970s and '80s seeing a plethora of copycat shows. However, in the 1990s, the formula...

Scooby-Doo character Velma Dinkley got her own “adult animated series” over on Max earlier this year, and Max has confirmed this week that “Velma” Season 2 is on the way.

Deadline reports, “Suzanna Makkos, EVP, Original Comedy and Adult Animation, Max and Adult Swim, revealed the renewal during Annecy International Animated Film Festival.”

“Velma” is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang.

An original and humorous spin that unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers, executive producer Mindy Kaling voices the titular character.

The voice cast also includes Sam Richardson (Werewolves Within).

Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register also serve as executive producers, with Grandy serving as showrunner. “Velma” is produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

The character of Velma Dinkley has previously been voiced by Nicole Jaffe,...

When word got out that HBO Max was working on a Velma origin story, fan responses were all over the place. It's not that "Scooby-Doo" fans dislike the four-eyed, orange-clad investigator who's been integral to Mystery Inc. since it first began in 1969. Rather, the hesitant responses to "Velma" were related to other aspects of the Mindy Kaling-led show, including its adult humor and violence, changes in animation style and characterization, and a conspicuous lack of the crime-solving Great Dane himself.

But if you look closely at the history of the long-running franchise, it's clear that for as long as Scooby and the gang have been on the air in some form or another, the shows have been repeatedly reinventing. And while that constant reinvention has often caused cyclical, ahistorical outrage from picky viewers, it's also the key to what makes "Scooby-Doo" so satisfying after all these years.

The 1969 Classic...

Scooby-Doo character Velma Dinkley gets her very own “adult animated series” over at HBO Max, with the series premiering on January 12, 2023. Check out the official trailer below!

“Velma” is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang.

An original and humorous spin that unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers, executive producer Mindy Kaling will voice the titular character.

The voice cast also includes Sam Richardson (Werewolves Within).

Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register also serve as executive producers, the press release sent out today notes. “Velma” is produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

The character of Velma Dinkley has previously been voiced by Nicole Jaffe, Pat Stevens, Marla Frumkin, Christina Lange, B.J. Ward, Mindy Cohn, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Kate Micucci, Trisha Gum, Ariana Greenblatt, and Gina Rodriguez.

Iconic character Velma Dinkley is getting her own “adult animated series” over at HBO Max, with the series premiering on January 12, 2023. Check out the new official poster below.

“Velma” is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang.

An original and humorous spin that unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers, executive producer Mindy Kaling will voice the titular character.

The voice cast also includes Sam Richardson (Werewolves Within).

Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register also serve as executive producers, the press release sent out today notes. “Velma” is produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

The character of Velma Dinkley has previously been voiced by Nicole Jaffe, Pat Stevens, Marla Frumkin, Christina Lange, B.J. Ward, Mindy Cohn, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Kate Micucci, Trisha Gum, Ariana Greenblatt, and Gina Rodriguez.

Iconic character Velma Dinkley is getting her own “adult animated series” over at HBO Max, and today we’ve learned that the series will premiere on January 12, 2023.

Watch the teaser trailer below, which pays homage to Wes Craven’s Scream!

“Velma” is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang.

An original and humorous spin that unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers, executive producer Mindy Kaling will voice the titular character.

The voice cast also includes Sam Richardson (Werewolves Within).

Charlie Grandy, Howard Klein and Sam Register also serve as executive producers, the press release sent out today notes. “Velma” is produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

The character of Velma Dinkley has previously been voiced by Nicole Jaffe, Pat Stevens, Marla Frumkin, Christina Lange, B.J. Ward,...

Mindy Kaling is teaming up with HBO Max to develop an animated series about Velma from Scooby-Doo. The show has been given a straight-to-series order by the streamer along with multiple other adult animated series. Kaling is on board to executive produce the series in addition to providing the voice of Velma in the Scooby-Doo spinoff.

Although it's inspired by a popular children's cartoon series, Velma is described as an "adult-focused" animated comedy, suggesting the show will likely be developed for more mature Scooby-Doo fans. The series serves as an origin story of the "bespectacled and underappreciated brain in the Scooby gang," offering a look at the "complex and colorful past of one of Scooby-Doo's beloved mystery solvers."

Velma stems from an overall deal between Mindy Kaling and Warner Bros. TV to produce multiple original shows for the studio. Executive producing Velma alongside Kaling are longtime collaborator Charlie Grandy, 3 Arts' Howard Klein,...

Features the voices of: Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaacs, Gina Rodriguez, Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Kiersey Clemons, Ken Jeong, Tracy Morgan, Frank Welker | Written by Matt Lieberman, Adam Sztykiel, Jack Donaldson, Derek Elliott | Directed by Tony Cervone

Since childhood, Shaggy Rogers, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, and Daphne Blake have been solving mysteries across the globe accompanied by Shaggy’s pet dog, Scooby-Doo. But their greatest mystery together comes in a turn of events when they run into the Blue Falcon, who is trying to stop his arch-rival, Dick Dastardly, from causing a global “dogpocalypse” by unleashing the great Cerberus upon the world.

A reboot of the Scooby-Doo franchise, Scoob! starts right back at the beginning, when Shaggy and Scooby first met, then the Mystery Incorporated gang were, well… incorporated, Though to be fair, you hear the phrase reboot these days and audiences tend to zone out – after all there...

Features the voices of: Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Isaacs, Gina Rodriguez, Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Kiersey Clemons, Ken Jeong, Tracy Morgan, Frank Welker | Written by Matt Lieberman, Adam Sztykiel, Jack Donaldson, Derek Elliott | Directed by Tony Cervone

Since childhood, Shaggy Rogers, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, and Daphne Blake have been solving mysteries across the globe accompanied by Shaggy’s pet dog, Scooby-Doo. But their greatest mystery together comes in a turn of events when they run into the Blue Falcon, who is trying to stop his arch-rival, Dick Dastardly, from causing a global “dogpocalypse” by unleashing the great Cerberus upon the world.

A reboot of the Scooby-Doo franchise, Scoob! starts right back at the beginning, when Shaggy and Scooby first met, then the Mystery Incorporated gang were, well… incorporated, Though to be fair, you hear the phrase reboot these days and audiences tend to zone out – after all there...

Her voice brought one of the most iconic characters in animation to life every week in people's living rooms, forever cementing her place in TV history and making it all the more difficult to share the news that Heather North, the voice of Daphne in several Scooby-Doo TV series and movies, has passed away.

Numerous outlets, including The Hollywood Reporter, have reported the news of North's passing at the age of 71. According to Jodie Mann, a close friend of the North family, Heather passed away on November 30th at her home in Studio City after a long battle with an undisclosed illness.

Heather North began her journey to voice acting immortality when she took the vocal reins of Daphne in the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in 1970. A key member of the cartoon mystery-solving team (and their vocal Great Dane) created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, Daphne would continue to...

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Zoinks! Aliya provides a rundown of 10 enjoyable Scooby-Doo animated movies. Scrappy isn't invited...

For a Great Dane, Scooby-Doo has had an impressive innings. He’s now 44 years old, and has been through a number of mediums: TV series, videogames, stage plays, and many movies. In all that time the Us version of Scooby has been voiced by only five actors (the original actor, Don Messick, played him from 1969 to 1994), and there remains something so familiar and reassuring about Scooby, even as the storylines and the entanglements of the Scooby gang change around him. Nowadays in Mystery Incorporated Velma may be on/off dating Shaggy, and Fred and Daphne may be having problems with their relationship, but Scooby remains as cowardly and hungry as ever.

The big screen movie escapade of Scooby-Doo (2002) involved Sarah Michelle Gellar as a black-belted Daphne and Rowan Atkinson as the main (okay,...

Scooby-Doo holds a special place in the heart of anyone who grew up in the 80s or 90s. Whether it was one of your top Saturday morning cartoon contenders or the last-ditch option when the ones you liked ended, everyone and their grandmother has seen at least one episode of this Hanna Barbera classic. Now, after quite a few season releases and plenty of single-disc 4-episode samplers, Warner Brothers has seen fit to give us a complete series set, and they’ve had the brilliant sense to box it in a semi-functional replica of the gang’s Mystery Machine. You can’t argue with the packaging, so really the only criticisms to be leveled at the series are for the preservation of the colors, the animation, and the show formula itself.

If you’ve never seen and episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! before, consider this next paragraph to be...

Pat Stevens was a leading voice actress who was best known for her role as Velma in Scooby-Doo cartoons from 1974 to 1979.

Stevens was born in Linden, New Jersey on September 16, 1945. She aspired to a career in show business from an early age, and performed as an actress and dancer on the New York stage. Stevens also appeared on television in episodes of such series as The Girl with Something Extra, M*A*S*H, and Police Woman.

In 1975, Stevens replaced Nicole Jaffe as the voice of the Velma Dinkley, the brilliant researcher of the Scooby gang, in Scooby-Doo cartoons. She voiced the roles in segments of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour, Scooby’s All-Star Laff-a-Lympics, Scooby’s All-Stars, and early episodes of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo before leaving the series in 1979.

Stevens died in Rutland, Massachusetts on May 26, 2010 at age 64.

Zoinks! One of the most successful cartoon characters in history is having a birthday. Scooby-Doo doesn't look it but the scaredy-cat Great Dane turns 40 on Sunday. That's 280 in dog years!

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? is the first series to star the lovable hound and his teenage friends, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy. Working together, the gang of Mystery, Inc. solve supernatural mysteries which typically turn out to be hoaxes. The animated pup and the "meddling kids" are played by Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Nicole Jaffe, Indira Stefanianna Christopherson, and Heather North.

The series, originally based on the characters from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, lasted for just 25 episodes over two seasons. However, the characters proved so popular that they've appeared in more than 10 spin-off series, almost 20 TV and direct-to-video movies, and two feature films.

Zoinks! One of the most successful cartoon characters in history is having a birthday. Scooby-Doo doesn't look it but the scaredy-cat Great Dane turns 40 on Sunday. That's 280 in dog years!

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? is the first series to star the lovable hound and his teenage friends, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy. Working together, the gang of Mystery, Inc. solve supernatural mysteries which typically turn out to be hoaxes. The animated pup and the "meddling kids" are played by Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Nicole Jaffe, Indira Stefanianna Christopherson, and Heather North.

The series, originally based on the characters from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, lasted for just 25 episodes over two seasons. However, the characters proved so popular that they've appeared in more than 10 spin-off series, almost 20 TV and direct-to-video movies, and two feature films.

  To celebrate the gang's 40th birthday, Cartoon Network is debuting Scooby-Doo: The...

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Scooby-Doo Where Are You! remains one of the most classic cartoons of television history. Hanna Barbera has since tried to recreate the Scooby-doo formula they achieved here but to no avail. Scrappy-Doo? I think the world has acknowledged him as a glaring failure on all counts. If for a moment you doubt that Hanna Barbera still desperately flails about looking for a new and successful way to reinvigorate the Scooby-Do franchise, the extra feature on the disc settles the matter. Corny, choppily animated and never complex, the original Scooby-Doo has many failings but it was also the first cartoon of memory that actually challenged kids to solve mysteries.

Shaggy (Casey Kasem), Velma (Nicole Jaffe), Fred (Frank Welker), Daphne (Stephanianna Christopherson) and Scooby-Doo (Don Messick) always get tangled up in strange local mysteries. Scooby-Doo Where Are You!: Volume 2: Bump in the...