Netflix and Sony Announce Ghostbusters: Night Shift Series

A new animated series expanding the Ghostbusters universe is officially on the way. Titled "Ghostbusters: Night Shift," the show was unveiled with a first look and key details at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which is currently underway in France. The series is a collaboration between Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation and is scheduled to premiere on the streaming service in 2027.

The series will serve as a canonical prequel set within the original film timeline. Its story is set in New York City in 1994, five years after the events of the 1989 film "Ghostbusters II." According to the official logline, a new supernatural threat emerges, forcing a group of untrained and underappreciated young New Yorkers, who are somewhat responsible for the problem, to don proton packs and become a new ghostbusting team.

The creative team includes several figures deeply connected to the franchise. Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, the filmmakers behind the recent sequels "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2021) and "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" (2024), are executive producers alongside original co-creator and star Dan Aykroyd. The series is showrun by Ben Hibon and Elliott Kalan, who...