Sci Fi TV Highlights: Gen V Cancelled by Amazon, Production Begins on The Testaments S2, and More

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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 at this link.

Keep up with the status of all the current sci fi and fantasy TV shows with our Cancellation Watch posts.

There has not been an official renewal announcement for The Testaments yet, sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, but an entry for Season 2 is showing up in the latest Production Weekly listings. We have not seen Nielsen Streaming numbers for the show yet because those run on about a one-month delay, but Deadline reports that the premiere pulled in eleven million hours of viewing over its first eight days and that the numbers have gone up since then.  Hulu apparently feels strong enough about this one that they have decided to ramp up production for a second year. Read more at this link.

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Just announce, Apple TV’s post-apocalyptic series Silo will be returning for its third season on July 3rd (you can see the teaser for that above). 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.

For the week of April 27th, there are no premieres, but Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters will release its Season 2 finale on Friday. You can see the full schedule for the week at this link.

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.

Star City (Apple TV): A bold new chapter inspired by the critically acclaimed space-race drama, For All Mankind, Star City is a propulsive paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humankind forward. Premieres May 27th.

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