Netflix is working on an hour-long, live-action Scooby-Doo drama

Everything old is new again; don't tell anyone. Variety reports that Warner Bros. Television — the studio behind the new hit show Dead Boy Detectives — is working on another project intended for Netflix: a live-action, one-hour drama based on Scooby-Doo.

Now, Variety calls it a drama, but they're probably talking in the general sense. The original Hanna-Barbera Scooby-Doo cartoon is about a quartet of 1960s stereotypes who travel around in a van solving mysteries with the help of a frightened dog with a speech impediment. Don't expect anything too heavy.

Scooby-Doo famously made the jump from animation to live-action in the early 2000s with a couple of successful movies starring the likes of Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, and Linda Cardellini. We don't know who will star in the new show (or even if it will make it to air), but I'd expect it to go for that tone. Or else it might try to ape something like Wednesday, another Netflix show based on an ancient, goofy property that adopts a broad, brightly grim mood.

Again, we don't know anything about actors, but we do have a long list of producers, including folks like André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Jonathan Gabay and Adrienne Erickson. The biggest name behind the camera is Greg Berlanti, who's worked on shows like Dawson's Creek, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and You, along with a lot of series based on DC Comics. Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg will serve as writers.

Ruh-roh.

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