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HBO Max Reportedly Pulls Second ‘Scooby-Doo’ Project From Service Mid-Production

March 26, 2023

HBO Max seems to have given up on another Scooby-Doo project in development. Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Pups was a CG-animated program aimed at preschoolers announced last year as the WarnerMedia regime gave wa...

Velma (Mindy Kaling) is unhappy with Fred (Glen Howerton) in the trailer for Velma (2023), HBO

YouTuber YellowFlash Shows Media Doing Damage Control For HBO Max’s Woke Disaster ‘Velma’

JB Augustine

January 23, 2023

Television

Velma, the “inclusive” Scooby reboot on HBO Max, is a critical disappointment - to put it mildly - that’s turning off viewers and reviewers left and right, but that hasn’t stopped the media that approves of thi...

HBO Max YouTube Channel Turns Off Comments On Official Velma Teaser Trailer

JB Augustine

January 18, 2023

Television

HBO Max appears to be quite aware that the fix is in for their Scooby-Re-Doo Velma, which is loosely based on the Scooby IP but bears next to no resemblance to the original cartoon. The streaming titan’s YouTub...

Mindy Kaling Claims Velma Is “An Icon For Young Gay Women” In Promotion Of HBO Max’s ‘Velma’ Series

JB Augustine

January 16, 2023

Television

That HBO Max’s Velma series does not stick to the precedent of the source material when adapting Scooby-Doo is cut and dry at this point. However, the animated show’s star Mindy Kaling and her producers believe...

Warner Bros. Retcon Velma As LGBT In New Halloween Movie ‘Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo!’

Spencer Baculi

October 4, 2022

Movies

In the latest case of contemporary pop-culture head canons running rampant over their respective source material, Mystery Inc.'s newest animated adventure Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo! has confirmed the team's re...

Velma No Longer Calls The Police On Other Fighters In ‘MultiVersus’ After Special Move Is Met With Scrutiny On Social Media

Ryan Pearson

September 9, 2022

Video Games

Velma's cop calling attack in MultiVersus has been changed to summoning the Mystery Machine, after a smattering of discussion and jokes. Source: MultiVersus (2022), Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment ...

James Gunn Believes Warner Bros. Giving The Green Light To An R-Rated Scooby-Doo Is Within The Realm Of Possibility: “I Think They’d Do It If We Asked”

JB Augustine

August 1, 2022

Movies

Before James Gunn was a big deal at Marvel and Warner Bros. with superheroes, he co-wrote the two Scooby-Doo movies of the 2000s that starred Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Freddie Prinze, Jr. R...

HBO Max Gives Season Orders To Mindy Kaling’s Race-Swapped Velma Dinkley Series, Clone High Reboot

JB Augustine

May 23, 2022

Television

HBO Max has officially placed season orders for both Mindy Kaling's animated Scooby-Doo spinoff centered on a race-swapped Velma Dinkley and the revival of cult-classic MTV series Clone High. Source: Scooby...

Mindy Kaling Led Adult-Oriented Scooby-Doo Animated Comedy To Focus On Race-Swapped Velma, Will Not Feature Scooby-Doo

Spencer Baculi

June 11, 2021

Television

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WarnerMedia has revealed a number of new details regarding actress Mindy Kaling’s upcoming adult-oriented Scooby-Doo animated comedy, including its focus on a race-swapped “East Asian” version of Velma Dinkley ...

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Producer Claims Velma Is Gay In The Show, James Gunn Says He Wrote A Gay Velma In 2001

John F. Trent

July 13, 2020

Movies, Television

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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated producer Tony Cervone claimed that Velma is gay in the show while James Gunn reveals that his live-action version of the character from 2002 was originally written to be gay. ...

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