A brand new model of Scooby-Doo‘s Velma Dinkley is coming on HBO Max with Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy’s Velma. But the character on the heart of the grownup animated sequence is simply the most recent in an extended line of iconic feminine sleuths on tv.
Ahead of the sequence’ January 12 premiere on the streamer, TV Insider spoke with creators Grandy and Kaling at New York Comic-Con to search out out extra in regards to the newest entree into the Scooby-verse. Kaling, who additionally voices the titular character, and Grandy then had some enjoyable evaluating their Velma to a few of our different favourite TV detectives, from Netflix’s Jessica Jones to Murder, She Wrote‘s Jessica Fletcher.
Kaling shares that Velma “idolizes Olivia Benson” of Law & Order: SVU and is a lot like “Veronica Mars — with much worse vision.” Grandy also adds that the series references both Jessica Fletcher and Miss Marple.
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And for the record, Velma isn’t very similar to Enola Holmes, although Kaling is a fan of the Millie Bobby Brown-starring Netflix franchise, gushing, “Hottest brothers in the history of movies.” She’s not incorrect… who doesn’t love Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin?
Watch the complete video about to search out out why the most recent Velma is (and isn’t) like TV’s biggest mystery-solvers, and tune into Velma on January 12!
Velma, Series Premiere, Thursday, January 12, HBO Max