{"id":47092,"date":"2023-01-09T22:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/how-does-velma-stack-up-to-other-tv-sleuths-mindy-kaling-charlie-grandy-weigh-in-video\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:59:05","slug":"how-does-velma-stack-up-to-other-tv-sleuths-mindy-kaling-charlie-grandy-weigh-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/how-does-velma-stack-up-to-other-tv-sleuths-mindy-kaling-charlie-grandy-weigh-in-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does &#8216;Velma&#8217; Stack Up to Other TV Sleuths? Mindy Kaling, Charlie Grandy Weigh In (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A brand new model of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/scooby-doo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Scooby-Doo<\/em><\/a>\u2018s Velma Dinkley is coming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/hbo-max\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO Max<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/mindy-kaling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindy Kaling<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/charlie-grandy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charlie Grandy\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/velma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Velma<\/a>. <\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the sequence\u2019 January 12 premiere on the streamer, TV Insider spoke with creators Grandy and Kaling at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/comiccon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Comic-Con<\/a> to search out out extra in regards to the newest entree into the <em>Scooby-<\/em>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\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/jessica-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Jones<\/a><\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/murder-she-wrote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em><\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/murder-she-wrote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Fletcher.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaling shares that Velma \u201cidolizes Olivia Benson\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/law-order-special-victims-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Law &amp; Order<\/em>: <em>SVU<\/em><\/a> and is a lot like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/veronica-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Veronica Mars<\/em><\/a> \u2014 with much worse vision.\u201d Grandy also adds that the series references both Jessica Fletcher and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/agatha-christies-marple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miss Marple.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1064122\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1064122\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1064122 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser-1014x570.jpg\" alt=\"Velma HBO Max Teaser\" width=\"1014\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser-1014x570.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser-1420x798.jpg 1420w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser-570x320.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Velma-HBO-Max-Teaser.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1064122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And for the record, <em>Velma<\/em> isn\u2019t very similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/enola-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enola Holmes<\/a>, although Kaling is a fan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/millie-bobby-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millie Bobby Brown<\/a>-starring Netflix franchise, gushing, \u201cHottest brothers in the history of movies.\u201d She\u2019s not incorrect\u2026 who doesn\u2019t love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/henry-cavill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Cavill<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/sam-claflin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Claflin<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Watch the complete video about to search out out why the most recent Velma is (and isn\u2019t) like TV\u2019s biggest mystery-solvers, and tune into <em>Velma<\/em> on January 12!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Velma<\/em>, Series Premiere, Thursday, January 12, HBO Max<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A brand new model of Scooby-Doo\u2018s Velma Dinkley is coming on HBO Max with Mindy Kaling and Charlie Grandy\u2019s 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\u2019 January 12 premiere on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}