Between the DC shakeup following the hiring of James Gunn and Peter Safran and HBO Max transferring reveals off its platform left and proper, one other sequence has been caught within the crossfires of this massive shift. Nonetheless, this time it’s fortunately not unhealthy information, as a result of moderately than being canceled altogether like Titans and Doom Patrol, the upcoming DC drama Useless Boy Detectives will probably be transferring from HBO Max to Netflix, becoming a member of the ranks of different DC properties like The Sandman and Candy Tooth.
Netflix has picked up Useless Boy Detectives based on THR as a result of the present reportedly didn’t match into the plan for upcoming DC reveals and HBO Max wouldn’t have been in a position to market the present till 2024. So, now, the sequence primarily based on comics by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner will make the transfer over to the streamer that homes the variation of Gaiman’s seminal work The Sandman, which Useless Boy Detectives is a spin-off of, in addition to one other DC property Candy Tooth.
The sequence centered across the story of teenage ghosts Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland is government produced by Greg Berlanti, and will probably be the second present of his to make the soar to Netflix. Whereas the producer is thought for his slate of extraordinarily standard DC reveals on the CW, he additionally serves as an government producer on You, which made the transfer from Lifetime to the legacy streamer a couple of years in the past, and has since change into an especially profitable sequence for Netflix.
Together with the success of Berlanti’s reveals, the opposite two DC reveals which are Netflix Originals are each beloved by audiences and have been renewed. The Sandman was picked up for Season 2 months after its very profitable first season, and Candy Tooth acquired renewal final summer season, which means there’s seemingly already an viewers prepared to soak up Useless Boy Detectives.
So, contemplating Berlanti’s monitor document with You transferring to Netflix, the streamer renewing a number of DC reveals within the final 12 months, and the truth that this sequence is a by-product of The Sandman, it looks like Useless Boy Detectives is in good fingers.
Whereas this transfer is sweet information, it additionally emphasizes HBO Max’s resolution to maneuver fairly a little bit of its content material to different streaming platforms. Together with canceling Titans and Doom Patrol, the streamer additionally nixed the reboot of Gossip Woman, canceled Minx (which is now transferring to STARZ), and moved a slew of reveals, together with Westworld from HBO Max to third-party streaming platforms.
Contemplating the 2 DC reveals that obtained canceled and the brand new path the studio is transferring in, it is sensible that this adaptation of Gaiman and Wagner’s work is transferring platforms. Additionally, figuring out the shared comedian historical past between Useless Boy Detectives and The Sandman it feels becoming that the 2 sequence will reside on the identical platform.
Remember to keep tuned to the 2023 TV schedule to see how the DC shakeup impacts the way forward for varied reveals, in addition to information about when Useless Boy Detectives will make its debut on Netflix. Within the meantime, whilst you look ahead to this ghostly adaptation helmed by The Flight Attendant’s Steve Yockey and Arrow’s Ben Schwartz, you may watch The Sandman and Candy Tooth with a Netflix subscription.
