Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series -- from Greg Berlanti -- in the works at Netflix
04-29-24 | 04:08 PM
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Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series -- from Greg Berlanti -- in the works at Netflix
A classic Warner Bros. IP is headed to Netflix with a reimagining from one of the studio’s top TV producers. In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, the streamer has landed Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series, from Greg Berlanti‘s Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, where the company is based, sources tell Deadline.
Written by Josh Appelbaum & Scott Rosenberg (Cowboy Bebop) based on characters created by Hanna-Barbera, Scooby-Doo! is a live-action update of the popular cartoon.
In a tough TV marketplace, the drama project garnered interest from top buyers, ending up at Netflix with a premium, script-to-series commitment, sources said. Reps for Netflix and WBTV declined comment.
Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman for Berlanti Productions as well as Appelbaum and Rosenberg alongside André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner under their Midnight Radio banner. Berlanti Productions’ Jonathan Gabay and Midnight Radio’s Adrienne Erickson co-executive produce.
The deal comes on the heels of Netflix releasing Berlanti Productions/WBTV’s latest series, Dead Boy Detectives, last week. The comic book adaptation landed on the streamer’s daily Top 10 U.S. series list within 24 hours and stayed in the Top 3 all weekend.
At Netflix, Berlanti Productions and WBTV are also behind You, headed into its fifth and final season, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the Scooby-Doo! franchise was launched in 1969 with the duo’s first animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for then-Hanna-Barbera (later absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation).
The series, which introduced supernatural mysteries-solving teens Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Shaggy Rogers and their talking Great Dane Scooby-Doo, originally aired on CBS from 1969-76, when it moved to ABC, where various versions of the show aired until 1986. Spinoff A Pup Named Scooby-Doo! aired from 1988-91. Two Scooby-Doo! reboots premiered as part of Kids’ WB on The WB and its successor The CW from 2002-08. Further reboots were produced for Cartoon Network beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2018. Boomerang premiered original animated series Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who? on its streaming service in 2019 and later on Max.
The franchise’s latest spinoff, Max original Velma from Mindy Kaling, recently wrapped its second season on the WBD streamer which also is home of the Scooby-Doo! library.
A live-action film was released in 2002 starring Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Linda Cardellini as Velma. It spawned a 2004 sequel. An animated feature, Scoob!, was released during the pandemic.
This marks Appelbaum, Rosenberg and their Midnight Radio partners’ return to Netflix, where they executive produced the live-action Cowboy Bebop series adaptation. Their recent credits also include Prime Video’s Citadel and MGM+’s From.
Written by Josh Appelbaum & Scott Rosenberg (Cowboy Bebop) based on characters created by Hanna-Barbera, Scooby-Doo! is a live-action update of the popular cartoon.
In a tough TV marketplace, the drama project garnered interest from top buyers, ending up at Netflix with a premium, script-to-series commitment, sources said. Reps for Netflix and WBTV declined comment.
Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman for Berlanti Productions as well as Appelbaum and Rosenberg alongside André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner under their Midnight Radio banner. Berlanti Productions’ Jonathan Gabay and Midnight Radio’s Adrienne Erickson co-executive produce.
The deal comes on the heels of Netflix releasing Berlanti Productions/WBTV’s latest series, Dead Boy Detectives, last week. The comic book adaptation landed on the streamer’s daily Top 10 U.S. series list within 24 hours and stayed in the Top 3 all weekend.
At Netflix, Berlanti Productions and WBTV are also behind You, headed into its fifth and final season, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the Scooby-Doo! franchise was launched in 1969 with the duo’s first animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for then-Hanna-Barbera (later absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation).
The series, which introduced supernatural mysteries-solving teens Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Shaggy Rogers and their talking Great Dane Scooby-Doo, originally aired on CBS from 1969-76, when it moved to ABC, where various versions of the show aired until 1986. Spinoff A Pup Named Scooby-Doo! aired from 1988-91. Two Scooby-Doo! reboots premiered as part of Kids’ WB on The WB and its successor The CW from 2002-08. Further reboots were produced for Cartoon Network beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2018. Boomerang premiered original animated series Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who? on its streaming service in 2019 and later on Max.
The franchise’s latest spinoff, Max original Velma from Mindy Kaling, recently wrapped its second season on the WBD streamer which also is home of the Scooby-Doo! library.
A live-action film was released in 2002 starring Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Linda Cardellini as Velma. It spawned a 2004 sequel. An animated feature, Scoob!, was released during the pandemic.
This marks Appelbaum, Rosenberg and their Midnight Radio partners’ return to Netflix, where they executive produced the live-action Cowboy Bebop series adaptation. Their recent credits also include Prime Video’s Citadel and MGM+’s From.
03-19-26 | 06:30 AM
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Netflix just announced the cast
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03-19-26 | 08:59 AM
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Oh it's the original Cassie Lang.
I'm kinda surprised they got McKenna, I figured she was on her way to being a bigger star and would price herself out of something like this (unless they paid her a ton or Daphne gets a lot more screentime than usual)
I'm kinda surprised they got McKenna, I figured she was on her way to being a bigger star and would price herself out of something like this (unless they paid her a ton or Daphne gets a lot more screentime than usual)
03-19-26 | 09:18 AM
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She's getting some flack online for not being a real ginger.
Apparently she's a Daphne fan, dressing up as her for Halloween a couple years ago.
Apparently she's a Daphne fan, dressing up as her for Halloween a couple years ago.
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03-19-26 | 09:25 AM
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I made the mistake of looking at the comments on that post on X... didn't see anything about being a Ginger but sooo many "anti-woke" comments.
Linda Cardellini was apparently a huge fan when she was auditioning for the movie and I thought her audition story was cute:
Linda Cardellini was apparently a huge fan when she was auditioning for the movie and I thought her audition story was cute:
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03-19-26 | 10:25 AM
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Here's the thing I don't understand about this desire to make Scooby Doo for adults.
Scooby Doo is for kids. I watched it when I was a child because I was a child and I was stupid, and so these "mysteries" were interesting enough to hold my attention.
Scooby Doo is moronic, and the "humor" is moronic.
Scooby Doo as entertainment is a few steps above the entertainment value of peek-a-boo.
Scooby Doo is for kids. I watched it when I was a child because I was a child and I was stupid, and so these "mysteries" were interesting enough to hold my attention.
Scooby Doo is moronic, and the "humor" is moronic.
Scooby Doo as entertainment is a few steps above the entertainment value of peek-a-boo.
03-19-26 | 10:31 AM
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Here's the thing I don't understand about this desire to make Scooby Doo for adults.
Scooby Doo is for kids. I watched it when I was a child because I was a child and I was stupid, and so these "mysteries" were interesting enough to hold my attention.
Scooby Doo is moronic, and the "humor" is moronic.
Scooby Doo as entertainment is a few steps above the entertainment value of peek-a-boo.
Scooby Doo is for kids. I watched it when I was a child because I was a child and I was stupid, and so these "mysteries" were interesting enough to hold my attention.
Scooby Doo is moronic, and the "humor" is moronic.
Scooby Doo as entertainment is a few steps above the entertainment value of peek-a-boo.
Though do we know for sure this is not aimed at kids with nods to adults?
Also the last attempt to cater Scooby Doo for kids kinda failed spectacularly at least partially due to covid, so they'll take whatever audience they can get...
03-19-26 | 12:36 PM
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Because those kids grew up and have money, and taking a basic kids concept and making it oriented to grown ups because of nostalgia is a tale as old as time? This almost certainly will not be a scene for scene reenactment of the cartoons you watched as a kid...
Though do we know for sure this is not aimed at kids with nods to adults?
Also the last attempt to cater Scooby Doo for kids kinda failed spectacularly at least partially due to covid, so they'll take whatever audience they can get...
Though do we know for sure this is not aimed at kids with nods to adults?
Also the last attempt to cater Scooby Doo for kids kinda failed spectacularly at least partially due to covid, so they'll take whatever audience they can get...
As for adults, nostalgia only goes so far. Scooby Doo has seemingly been in continuous production with new iterations for decades, so there is no one not familiar with the property. Even I would check it out, just for curiosity, but that does not keep a show afloat.
To be honest, I think I am just sick of remakes and reboots and re-imaginings. And
with old TV shows is feeling insulting from people who are supposed to be creative.
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03-19-26 | 12:42 PM
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Well part of it is that WB wants to keep that IP alive at all costs and an actual hit would go a long way towards that. Or maybe it's the Wednesday effect. I completely understand the trepidation about this though, hopefully the creators have some kind of vision of their own above and beyond an IP money grab.
03-20-26 | 10:59 AM
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If the show is aimed at kids, IDK why they would need someone like Greg Berlanti involved. Maybe the idea is to have YA appeal, but I still think it's just another lame attempt to use an existing IP instead of coming up with something original (I'm looking at your, Riverdale)
As for adults, nostalgia only goes so far. Scooby Doo has seemingly been in continuous production with new iterations for decades, so there is no one not familiar with the property. Even I would check it out, just for curiosity, but that does not keep a show afloat.
To be honest, I think I am just sick of remakes and reboots and re-imaginings. And with old TV shows is feeling insulting from people who are supposed to be creative.
As for adults, nostalgia only goes so far. Scooby Doo has seemingly been in continuous production with new iterations for decades, so there is no one not familiar with the property. Even I would check it out, just for curiosity, but that does not keep a show afloat.
To be honest, I think I am just sick of remakes and reboots and re-imaginings. And
with old TV shows is feeling insulting from people who are supposed to be creative.
I too am tired of them milking everything from the 70, s 80,s 90's, etc. Stop. Please. And, the vast majority of the re-dos, remakes, prequels & sequels or whatever else suck. Just bad. Usually the creative teams behind the stuff is some young hipsters that don't get the material or try to jam their own "ideas" into it. Hence, the suckness ensues.
That being said, at least the cast looks reasonable. Im amazed, actually.
03-20-26 | 11:20 AM
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03-20-26 | 11:55 AM
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03-21-26 | 07:26 AM
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. Yeah, yeah, we’re clutching our childhood memories or whatever but really, make new stuff so people of this era can have those memories. Don’t reboot mine. 
03-22-26 | 10:21 AM
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I’m curious about it. Like many others as a kid I was a huge fan and even now it’s fun to watch occasionally for some nostalgia. I also liked the two live action movies (more the first one), and the CG animated movie a few years back, Scoob! was okay.
I’m curious as to how this Netflix series will be done. Is it going to be monster of the week type episodes or are they going to try and make it a modern series with a season long arc/mystery? If it’s the latter I’m not quite sure about it.
I’m at least interested in seeing a trailer and possibly giving it a chance.
I’m curious as to how this Netflix series will be done. Is it going to be monster of the week type episodes or are they going to try and make it a modern series with a season long arc/mystery? If it’s the latter I’m not quite sure about it.
I’m at least interested in seeing a trailer and possibly giving it a chance.
03-22-26 | 11:03 AM
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I don't nor will ever get Netflix so will have to wait until WB releases it to physical media. Not sure what sort of deal they have with Netflix and the timeline of getting to home video...
03-23-26 | 08:11 AM
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I’m curious about it. Like many others as a kid I was a huge fan and even now it’s fun to watch occasionally for some nostalgia. I also liked the two live action movies (more the first one), and the CG animated movie a few years back, Scoob! was okay.
I’m curious as to how this Netflix series will be done. Is it going to be monster of the week type episodes or are they going to try and make it a modern series with a season long arc/mystery? If it’s the latter I’m not quite sure about it.
I’m at least interested in seeing a trailer and possibly giving it a chance.
I’m curious as to how this Netflix series will be done. Is it going to be monster of the week type episodes or are they going to try and make it a modern series with a season long arc/mystery? If it’s the latter I’m not quite sure about it.
I’m at least interested in seeing a trailer and possibly giving it a chance.
04-24-26 | 10:56 AM
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04-24-26 | 01:47 PM
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I mean I knew it's Mckenna Grace and I still didn't think it was her.
04-29-26 | 12:14 PM
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04-29-26 | 12:29 PM
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