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Your TV Source Roundup: ‘Gen V’ Canceled, ‘Scooby-Doo: Origins’ Begins Production, ‘Reasonable Doubt’ Adds Cast, Helena Bonham Carter Exits ‘The White Lotus’, ‘Rivals’ Teaser, ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Teaser, and More!

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Prime Video has canceled Gen V after two seasons. The Boys spinoff series directly tied into the final season of the mother series. Another spinoff, Vaught Rising, will premiere in 2027. 

Production has begun on Netflix’s Scooby-Doo: Origins, the official title for the live-action series. Previously announced cast includes Mckenna Grace as “Daphne Blake,” Tanner Hagen as “Shaggy Rogers,” Abby Ryder Fortson as “Velma Dinkley,” Maxwell Jenkins as “Fred Jones,” Paul Walter Hauser.A modern reimagining of the iconic mystery-solving group of teens and their very special dog. During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder. Together with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the strange, but ever so handsome new kid, Freddy, they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets.

Onyx Collective announced new recurring guest stars for the fourth season of Hulu’s legal drama Reasonable Doubt. La La Anthony, Rutina Wesley, Taylor Polidore Williams, DeVaughn Nixon and Alexxis Lemir join series regulars Emayatzy Corinealdi, McKinley Freeman, Tim Jo, Angela Grovey, and recently announced series regulars Durrell “Tank” Babbs and Meagan Good. Morris Chestnut, Joseph Sikora and Brandee Evans also return as recurring guest stars. After a brutal attack leaves Jax’s family and newly minted law firm shaken, nothing feels certain, especially their future. With Jax’s most loyal client at the center of a spiraling media disaster, The Stewart Firm is thrust into a high-stakes battle where every move could mean survival … or collapse of the firm. As grief lingers and pressure mounts, one question looms: Can they rebuild in time, or will the cost of moving forward too quickly be everything they stand to lose? 

Helena Bonham Carter has exited The White Lotus. The role is set to be reworked and recast in the coming weeks. The fourth season of the HBO series recently began production in France. 

Season two of Rivals premieres May 15 on hulu. The battle for the Central South West television franchise reaches a fever pitch as the war between Corinium and Venturer enters a dangerous new phase. More ruthless than ever, Tony Baddingham is determined to dismantle his rivals piece-by-piece, weaponizing scandal and manipulating those closest to him to maintain his grip on power. Amidst the hedonistic glamour of 80s excess, the personal lives of our Rutshire heroes spiral into chaos. Marriages fracture under the weight of ambition, illicit affairs threaten to shatter families, and long-buried secrets ignite with explosive consequences. As rivalries push everyone to the brink, loyalties are tested and hearts are broken in the pursuit of victory. But what is the true cost of war? 

The world’s first immortal rockstar, Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), adds his own vampiric flair to Billy Idol’s iconic song “Dancing With Myself” in the third official single released from The Vampire Lestat, which debuts June 7 on AMC and AMC+. In the new rock and roll centric season, the Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population. In addition to Reid, the series stars Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle. 

Would You Rather: Decide to Survive will premiere on Prime Video June 2026. Hosted by comedy sensation Romesh Ranganathan, the brand new series will feature Chunkz, Nella Rose, Max Balegde, Chloe Burrows, Max Fosh, Elz the Witch, King Kenny, Bambino Becky, Ayamé, and Stephen Tries, as they are whisked away to a remote sun-soaked location to face hilarious challenges based on “Would You Rather” dilemmas. Would You Rather be invisible or be able to fly? Fight one giant duck or 1000 tiny ducks? Eat a man-sized bean or a bean-sized man? This comedy game show will see two teams of some of Britain’s funniest digital personalities compete in hilarious real-life challenges based on classic hypothetical Would You Rather decisions. These three simple words decide everything from what they eat to who they send home.

A documentary series exploring the Zizians, an enigmatic group of young technologists who garnered national attention in 2025 after law enforcement linked members of the group to a series of violent crimes across the country is in production at HBO. The untitled access-driven series will trace the group’s origins and evolution, examining how it formed, operated, and attracted attention for its extreme ideology and alleged violence. It will explore the Zizians’ unusual convergence of AI safety concerns, radical veganism, and the broader cultural and technological forces that helped shape its trajectory. 

Gordon will premiere on Netflix in 2026. This thriller, inspired by true events, tells the story of Aníbal Gordon—a criminal who went from committing robberies to actively participating in the violent years of 1970s Argentina—and his ties to the various groups of that era. The seires is based on the novel “Gordon” by Marcelo Larraquy. 

Lee Arvoy
Lee Arvoy joined the TV Source team in the summer of 2020 as a TV Writer.

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