Hulu, YTV pick up The Hardy Boys

Production is underway on Nelvana's upcoming teen-skewing mystery reboot, with the series set to launch in the US and Canada in 2020.

Hulu and Canadian kidnet YTV picked up Corus-owned Nelvana’s previously announced live-action seriesThe Hardy Boys, to premiere in the US and Canada in 2020.

Production is underway and set to wrap in January for the mystery-drama show, which Nelvanaunveiled to Kidscreen earlier this year alongside its move back into producing live-action series.

The 13 x 60-minute teen-skewing series is based on American writer Edward Stratemeyer’s boy-skewing adventure books, and explores the story of two teens who find themselves wrapped up in a mystery following their mother’s death. Produced by Nelvana and Toronto-based Lambur Productions, the series is executive produced by Joan Lambur, Peter Mohan and Jason Stone for Lambur with Doug Murphy, Pam Westman and Athena Georgaklis exec producing for Nelvana.

The Hardy Boys isn’t Nelvana’s first time turning the book series into a show. In the ’90s the prodco teamed up with New Line Television and France’s Marathon Productions in association with Canadian media company Westcom to produce one season of The Hardy Boys, which was originally broadcast by Westcom. The series has since been picked up by LA-baseddistributor Cinedigm and Montreal-based streamingservice Playster.

Nelvana is rebooting The Hardy Boysas part of its ongoing efforts to expand into different content categories, Nelvana’s head Mellany Masterson toldKidscreen in aprevious interview. After building up a portfolio of popular animated series (6 Teen,Max & Ruby andMysticons), the prodco sees potential in reaching a co-viewing audience throughlive-action series.

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