HBO Max has announced Mindy Kaling’s animated Scooby-Doo prequel Velma will premiere on the streamer January 12th, 2023.
Velma follows Mystery Inc. member Velma Dinkley before she met Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred and Daphne and explores how she became a renowned detective. Kaling is voicing Velma as well as producing and writing the series.
The premiere comes not long after Velma came out of the closet as a lesbian in the recent Halloween-themed animated movie Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!. It is unknown if this addition (or finally saying the subtext out loud) in the franchise will make its way into Velma and other Scooby-Doo projects in the future.
SEE ALSO: Mindy Kaling is Velma in trailer for HBO Max’s Scooby-Doo adult animated spinoff
VELMA is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and under appreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. This original and humorous spin unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers.
Velma features a voice cast that includes Mindy Kaling, Frank Welker, Jane Lynch, Wanda Sykes, Russell Peters, Melissa Fumero, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, Ken Leung, Cherry Jones, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Fortune Feimster, Yvonne Orji, Sarayu Blue, Nicole Byer, Ming-Na Wen, Shay Mitchell, Debby Ryan, Kulap Vilaysak and Karl-Anthony Towns.
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