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Mindy Kaling's Velma was canceled after two seasons on Max
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Mindy Kaling's Velma was canceled after two seasons on Max

Mindy Kalings Velma solved his last case.

The adult animated Scooby-Doo original series was canceled by Max. Weekly entertainment confirmed on Wednesday.

“Over the last two seasons, Mindy and Charlie (Grandy) have created an incredibly fun and fresh world within the iconic crime franchise,” a spokesperson for Max said in a statement. “Although we will not be continuing with another season of the series, we thank them for their compelling coming-of-age story, their unmatched clues and their hilarious banter.”

'Velma'.

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Velma Season 2 premiered on April 25 with 10 new episodes. The Halloween special was released on October 3rd and will now serve as the series finale.

The series, created by Grandy and starring Kaling as the underrated teen detective Velma Dinkley, also starred Constance Wu, Sam Richardson and Glenn Howerton.

“We knew it would be fun for me to play Velma, but we had a conversation where Velma is white and we have this new choice to do the show and if I'm voicing her, I want her to be white “Be or not?” Kaling told EW in 2022. “We were really inspired by.” Into the Spider-Verse – it's animation, we can do anything. Velma’s essence is not necessarily tied to her whiteness. And I identify so much with her character, and I think so many people do, so it's like, yeah, let's make her a Native American on this show.”

When she and Grandy saw what a South Asian animated Velma looked like, they knew they had made the right decision. “It felt like it really kept the core of the show,” Kaling said.

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Although Kaling had never animated before, he was excited to bring a new level of Velma's story to life in the series. “I'm obviously a big fan of Scooby Doo“She grew up watching almost every rerun of it, and I really loved the character of Velma,” she told EW. “I said to Charlie, 'Would you be interested in doing something that tells her origin story?'”

Grandy said yes “immediately” because he had always wondered how Scooby Doo The gang became friends. “As a fan, the only question I always had was how did these four people get together? These four very different people,” Grandy told EW. “And then every week they solve a spooky mystery; they almost die every week. The question is, why? What happened to them in high school that was so bad that this stuff rolls off their chests? How can they keep it up? Go back? Obviously they’ve been through worse.”

TVLine.com first reported the news of the show's cancellation.

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