Sci Fi TV News: Weekly digest of the recent news and updates relating to sci fi and fantasy television.
Amazon’s spin-off from The Boys, Gen V, will be coming to an end as it has been cancelled after a two-season run. That series premiered in Fall 2023 and proved to be a hit at first, charting in the Nielsen Streaming Rankings for four weeks and averaging an estimated 335 million minutes of viewing per week during that time. When it returned for its second season in Fall 2025, its viewing per week improved to an average of 412 million minutes, but it dropped out of the charts after two weeks. Amazon went silent on the show’s fate after that, and I moved it to Bubble status a short time back when there were signs emerging that it might not continue to a third season. Most recently, series co-star Jaz Sinclair said that she had heard nothing about a third season of the show yet, while Asa Germann accepted a role on another series. You can read more about the cancellation CancelledSciFi.com.
The upcoming Amazon series Spider-Noir has released a featurette focusing on the villains that the hero will face in the shows’ upcoming premiere season. Those include Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson), Sandman (Jack Huston), Tombstone (Abraham Popoola), and Megawatt (Andrew Lewis Caldwell). The title character is played by Nicholas Cage, and the show is set for a May 27th premiere.
The BBC has acquired the eight-episode French alternate history series The Sentinels, which is based on the graphic novels Les Sentinelles by Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia . Following is the synopsis for the series:
At the outbreak of World War I, Gabriel Ferraud – a gravely wounded soldier – is recruited into a top-secret French military program designed to create the ultimate weapon: enhanced humans. After being injected with a mysterious serum, Gabriel gains extraordinary strength, speed, and resilience. He joins an elite unit known as the Sentinels – augmented soldiers forged for the front lines. But as the war intensifies, Gabriel uncovers a terrifying truth that could alter the fate of the conflict.
It stars Louis Peres, Thibaut Evrard, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Carl Malapa, Olivia Ross, and Ouassini Embarek, and it comes from Studiocanal. It will be available on iPlayer and BBC Four later this year, and there is no word at this point if it will air on BBC America in the States.
In production news, work has begun on a second season of Hulu’s The Testaments, a sequel series to The Handmaid’s Tale, even though it has not received an official renewal yet. You can read more about that in the latest Sci Fi TV Production Report.
In scheduling news, the third season of Apple TV’s Silo has received a premiere date of July 3rd (you can see the teaser for that below). Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 will have its premiere on July 23rd, and you can see the trailer for that at this link. In addition, Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 is on track to premiere later this year.
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Sci Fi TV Premieres:
Widow’s Bay (Apple TV): Widow’s Bay is a quaint island town 40-miles off the coast of New England. But something lurks beneath the surface. Mayor Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is desperate to revive his struggling community. There’s no wifi, spotty cellular reception, and he must contend with superstitious old locals who believe their island is cursed. He wants these people to respect him. They don’t. They think he is soft and cowardly. And he is. But Loftis is determined to build a better future for his teenage son and turn the island into a tourist destination. Miraculously, Loftis succeeds: tourists are finally coming. Unfortunately, the locals were right. After decades of calm, the old stories that seemed too ludicrous to be true start happening again. The first two episodes will be available on Wednesday.
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