WB & HBO Max have announced a new slate of animated series heading to the streaming service soon. Among the newbies are a reboot of the former MTV series, Clone High, an original series with Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live) attached, and a certain cerebral sleuth is getting her own show.
Yup, Velma, the resident brainiac of Mystery, Incorporated, is the first of the gang to get a solo series.
Mindy Kaling (ex-The Mindy Project) will not only serve as executive producer, but will voice Velma herself. No slight on Kate Micucci, who took over the part with Be Cool, Scooby-Doo, but Kaling, a fan herself of the Scooby-Doo franchise, felt it might be better if she took point, if you will. It's intended as an adult series, so expect Kaling and her writers to explore the long rumored fan theory that Velma is gay. After 2 seasons of Harley Quinn, which similarly played up internet shippers' preference to pair the title character with BFF Poison Ivy, we know WB isn't afraid to go there. In season 2 of Mystery, Incorporated, they teased a relationship between Velma and Marcie, aka Hot Dog Water, toward the end of the series.
Chumptoon Network couldn't go further than just teases, for fear of offending media nannies, and since I haven't read of any complaints from said nannies regarding Harley, its safe to assume Velma will be just fine.
Stay tuned.
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While it is nice to see another Scooby-Doo character receive some love besides just Scooby and Shaggy for a change, I have to wonder who exactly was clamoring for an adult-oriented Velma Dinkley series.
At this point I'd like to start getting some original ideas and properties instead of all these reboots, revamps and rehashes. It's a tad disheartening how so many studios and networks would rather ride the nostalgia hype train than invest in new shows and concepts that could become cult classics in their own right 10, 15 or 20 years down the line.
I'm chalking this up to internet fan service.
It's kind of nice to see someone who's actually a fan of the franchise portraying a character as opposed to just going with the a list casting of voices like Scoob did.
Incidentally, someone at toonzone brought up a good point when they mentioned it's only a matter of time until we get an edgy CW Scooby live action series; I'm seriously surprised there hasn't been one yet...
Considering cartoon network's scooby live action movies were made in 2009 and 2011, It's been way too long since a live action attempt at Scooby was tried; I know there waas a Daphne and Velma movie,but I mean something with the entire gang.
Plus as the toonzone forums post I referenced said, you could easily crossover the show the characters with riverdale and Nancy Drew...
*I meant crossover the show with the characters from riverdale and Nancy drew...
The closest to an "edgy" series with Scooby was Mystery, Inc. and the Scooby Apocalypse comic book, the latter of which lasted three years.
I read those same threads at ToonZone (now AnimeSuperhero.com), and I'm like, please don't give those jackasses at CW any ideas. Remember, they gave Berlanti the green light for a live-action Powerpuff Girls, which Diablo Cody wrote the treatment for.
For the average kid, you might as well quote a line from an old Michael Jackson record---"Have you seen my childhood?".
@Scoobyfan1: Ugh, no! Please don't give the CW any ideas. It's bad enough that CW has apparently greenlit that edgy YA live action Powerpuff Girls show, which sounds like complete garbage. This may be an unpopular opinion, but this trend of making dark, edgy live action adaptations of beloved kids' cartoons needs to die. One Riverdale is more than enough. I'm not going to dignify any of that trash be giving them my viewership.
Especially if that jackass Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa gets attached to it.
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