Netflix to debut Ghostbusters: Night Shift series 2027

A new animated series set to expand the Ghostbusters universe is in development at Netflix, with creators aiming to bridge a decades-long gap in the franchise's official timeline. "Ghostbusters: Night Shift" is scheduled to premiere on the streaming service in 2027.

The series will be set in New York City in 1994, five years after the events of "Ghostbusters II," and will follow a new group of characters in their early twenties who take up proton packs. Executive producers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, who collaborated on the recent sequels "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2021) and "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire," conceived the show while writing "Afterlife." They found themselves exploring an unanswered question from that film's story.

"We gave ourselves a mystery to solve," Reitman said, referring to a young girl discovering a proton pack in a barn. "Wait a second, what about that whole decade in between? What happened in the 90s? That was the birth of this show."

The producers have explicitly framed the series as a canonical link within the larger franchise, designed to connect the original 1980s films with the modern sequels. Reitman stated the series is "very specifically set within...