In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, the streamer Scooby-Doo! Got hold of The Live-Action Series, from Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, where the company is based.
Scooby Doo! is written by Josh Appelbaum & Scott Rosenberg (Cowboy Bebop (2021)) and is based on characters created by Hanna-Barbera. It is a live-action update of the popular animated series.
In a tough TV market, the drama project attracted interest from top buyers and landed at Netflix with a top-tier script-to-series commitment, sources said. Representatives for Netflix and WBTV declined comment.
Scooby Doo! The Live-Action Series is produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman for Berlanti Productions and Appelbaum and Rosenberg along with André Nemec and Jeff Pinkner under their Midnight Radio banner. Jonathan Gabay of Berlanti Productions and Adrienne Erickson of Midnight Radio are co-executive producers.
The deal comes after Netflix released Berlanti Productions/WBTV's latest series, Dead Boy Detectives, last week. The comic book adaptation landed on the streamer's daily Top 10 list of US series within 24 hours and remained in the Top 3 throughout the weekend.
On Netflix, Berlanti Productions and WBTV are also behind You, which is in its fifth and final season, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
The Scooby-Doo! franchise, created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, launched in 1969 with the duo's first animated series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for then-Hanna-Barbera (later merged into Warner Bros.). animation).
The series, which introduced supernatural mystery-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. The series then moved to ABC, where various versions of the series aired until 1986.
Spinoff A Pup Named Scooby-Doo! aired from 1988-91. Two Scooby-Doo! reboots premiered from 2002-08 as part of Kids' WB on The WB and its successor The CW. Further reboots were produced for Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2018. Boomerang spawned the original animated series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? premiered on its streaming service in 2019 and later on HBO Max.
The franchise's latest spinoff, Mindy Kaling's HBO Max-Original Velma, recently wrapped its second season on the WBD streamer, which is also home to the Scooby-Doo! library.
In 2002, a live-action film starring Freddie Prinze Jr. was released. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Linda Cardellini as Velma. There was a sequel in 2004. An animated film, Scoob!, was released during the pandemic.
Appelbaum, Rosenberg and their Midnight Radio partners now return to Netflix, where they produced the live-action Cowboy Bebop (2021) series adaptation. Their recent work also includes Prime Video's Citadel and MGM+'s From.
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