Born out of 21 st Century Fox (the originator of most of the legacy shows), which was gobbled up by Disney in 2019, it already had 11 adult animation series in production for numerous streaming services on the day it launched, including Solar Opposites (Hulu) and Central Park (Apple TV+). HBO Max and Adult Swim merged their adult animation development teams just weeks after Disney Television Studios launched 20 th Television Animation, a separate unit to maintain the studio’s legacy shows ( Family Guy, American Dad, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpson’s, etc.), as well as develop new adult animation series. Not to mention four new Max Original adult animated series in development. Not just by the thought of cartoon history’s most bookish brain setting off on her own decisively more adult course, or by the fact that she’d be voiced by the multi-talented Mindy Kaling (who is also executive producing), but also by HBO Max’s simultaneous announcement of a reboot of MTV’s Clone High, a renewal of Close Enough, and an order for the original Fired on Mars, executive produced by SNL’s Pete Davidson. Back in February, when we learned that Scooby-Doo’s Velma Dinkley would be getting her own adult animated series, we were intrigued.
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