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I hope you will be very pleasantly surprised by Grey in this series. With the changes we've made to Daphne's character, Grey fits her like a glove. She's utterly brilliant bringing this new, eccentric, smart, empathic and funny Daphne to life. In fact, the first time I met her, I was astonished. Zac and I looked at each other and said, "Oh my God, she literally IS our new Daphne!"

The casting of all the characters is perfect and we couldn't be happier. 

For Prof. Per. - I'm the head writer who helped create and develop the new Scooby Doo show.

Hey ahk - We have no plans to reveal endings to old episodes. While we may play with elements to some old plots as jumping off points to twist and spin certain tropes, all of the stories will be original to this series and we're not really treating the past series as part of our history (apart from the odd wink here and there). 

As for "real" monsters, I can't really talk about that apart from saying that we will always try to keep the audience guessing what's real and what's not until the last possible moment. Not always easy and Scooby Doo does have certain classic structures that we like to adhere to, but, hopefully, people will find it satisfying. We're certainly looking for new ways to reveal the bad guys.

Nah, you guys didn't scare me away. As many have assumed, I've been very busy getting the show ready. It's all going great, just hectic. We don't have an official air date yet, but I'd be happy to answer any questions that I'm allowed to. 

I'm curious, considering all the many VERY different iterations of "Scooby Doo" for the past 45 years, exactly what IS Scooby Doo all about?

Hi SpiderScooby - Yes, it's extremely hard writing for a comedy series like Scooby. Then again, it's extremely hard to write ANYTHING really well, if that's your goal. 

Hi! Thanks for the welcome. 

I'm glad you enjoyed "Phineas and Ferb." we worked really hard to make that show something everyone of all ages could enjoy and that we, personally, would find funny and engaging. We're certainly bringing that approach to BCSD. Scooby is, of course, NOT Phineas and Ferb, though, and we have no desire to make it that. What we're attempting, though, is to bring the intelligence, humor, heart and character that Phineas had and make the Scooby Doo show (which we all grew up with) that WE would want to see. A show that a younger audience that has never seen Scooby can fall in love with, that is also the best Scooby Doo show an older audience that knows it well, has ever seen. Ambitious? Yup. Always.

Thanks Mark, that means a lot. I'm glad you enjoyed "Phineas." Our approach was that we were not making a show for children, we were just not EXCLUDING children - by having elements like inappropriate violence or sexuality. The show is for everybody - old and young - to enjoy. In terms of intelligence, sophistication or humor, we had a rule that if it made us laugh, it went in. We were seriously just trying to please ourselves and do the best work possible of which we were proud.

When I was 9 years-old things that were actually funny, were funny to me: Monty Python, early Woody Allen, early Mel Brooks, Airplane, the Mark Brothers. Maybe I was exposed to things most 9 year-olds weren't, but the point is - funny is funny - even to kids. The biggest sin to me and Zac is talking down to kids. They're smarter than you'd ever believe and, just like I didn't get EVERY joke in some of those movies/TV shows, I usually got what was funny through the context or got it later on. Kids love to stretch UP to the humor. I never had a kid come up to me and say he didn't "get" a "Phineas" joke. In fact, most of their favorites were the ones the execs expected would be too sophisticated for kids - or too absurd. And it all derives and flows from character. Building smart, well-rounded characters was the first, most essential step. 

To give you a sense of tone and style and care, for that matter, that we wanted to bring into Scooby, Zac and I did (as director and writer) episodes like "Phineas and Ferb's Christmas Vacation" (the Christmas special), the "Monster of Phineastein and Ferbgor" (our first Emmy nominated episode), "Put That Putter Away" (one of my favorites) and I wrote most of the 22-minute episodes ("Chronicles of Meap" "Lake Nose Monster" "Nerds of a Feather" "The Beak") and the TV Movie "Phineas and Ferb Across the Second Dimension." 

"Phineas" was written and directed by a lot of different people all with different comedic voices, styles and approaches. I had a certain personal "voice" as a writer that I developed writing comedy for the stage, where you CAN develop your own personal comedic voice in a pure environment without exec notes and grow confidence in that voice by watching audiences react to your work night after night. I wrote a long, interconnected semi-sketch show called "Play Things" that Dan Povenmire (creator of "Phineas" and old friend) saw and based on that, he asked me write for his new show that he had just sold to Disney ("Phineas," of course). He simply liked what I did and how I did it, so I was really left alone to just write like I write on that show and it's the same voice and approach that Zac asked me to bring to the new "Scooby." The comedy can get silly/smart and absurd, but it's grounded in character. It's seriously Character-driven stories and comedy from which the comedy flows organically - no matter how out there and irreverent we decide to get with it. 

Zac and I care so much about the same things and have a clear idea of the show we want to make. The television process is fraught with challenges and constant baton handing-offs, so much can always go wrong in the process, but if we can actually get the show we want to make to the screen. We know people will love it.