It's meddling season on HBO Max.
The streamer has released a new poster for its upcoming animated Scooby-Doo spinoff Velma ahead of its Jan. 12 premiere, which showcases the titular character walking through the halls of a haunted high school hallway.
An Adults-Only Velma
Starring Mindy Kaling as the titular character, Velma follows the amateur sleuth and the rest of those meddling kids before they form Mystery Inc. The mature comedy received a straight-to-series order in February 2021, and will feature an East Asian version of the character. "It is a tremendous privilege to build on the 100-year plus legacy of 'cartoons' at this company," HBO Max Executive Vice President of Comedy and Adult Animation Suzanna Makkos said at the time. "We can draw a straight line from our hundreds of childhood hours spent watching Bugs outwit Elmer to the current slate of adult animated projects we are building here at HBO Max, and we think fans will agree. We are proud to introduce this distinctive group of series from a wide range of diverse creators that will form a first-stop destination for animation lovers everywhere."
The series will also feature the core cast of the classic Scooby-Doo cartoons, including Sam Richardson as Shaggy, Constance Wu as Daphne and Glenn Howerton as Fred. Scooby-Doo is not set to be a part of the series, instead shifting the focus to Velma as the gang's primary detective. However, longtime voice of Scooby and Fred, Frank Welker, is set to voice William Jones, Fred's father.
Other cast members include 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 NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns.
Kalling was eager "reimagine what Scooby-Doo would be like if Velma were of East Asian descent and lived in a different world. And so in that version, which is going on HBO Max first, there's no dog and there's no van, but we have our four key characters through a different lens," Tom Ascheim, former president of Warner Bros. Discovery Kids, Young Adults and Classics, said in 2021. (Ascheim left Warner Bros. Discovery in May 2022.)
Velma debuts Thursday, Jan. 12 on HBO Max.