THE MINDY PROJECT 
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NEVER HAVE I EVER 
Jinkies! Velma is going solo in early 2023.HBO Max has set a Jan. 12, 2023, release date for Mindy Kaling's animated series "Velma," a spinoff of the beloved, but family-friendly, "Scooby-Doo" series. In this modern, adult-oriented take on the classic "Scooby-Doo" franchise, the series follows the origin story of Velma Dinkley (Kaling), the brainiac of the Mystery Inc. gang. After a corpse is found in her high school, Velma teams up with Daphne (Constance Wu), Shaggy (Sam Richardson) and Fred...
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Since coming to prominence as a writer-producer-actor on “The Office” in the mid-2000s, Kaling has been committed to bringing authentic and fully realized South Asian characters to the forefront of her projects, whether she plays them — as she did in her TV series “The Mindy Project” and the 2019 feature “Late Night” — or not. It’s the latter in the case of two of her current comedy series, the high school-set “Never Have I Ever,” which has been renewed through season 4 by Netflix, and HBO’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” which recently wrapped its second season. Kaling is exec producing the new adult-oriented HBO Max animated “Scooby-Doo” spinoff series, “Velma,” which inspired a mini-uproar on social media when it was revealed that the title character she voices had been changed from Caucasian to South Asian.
