It’s official. DC drama Useless Boy Detectives is about at Netflix. Initially ordered to collection at HBO Max, Useless Boy Detectives, based mostly on the DC Comics characters created by Neil Gaiman, will launch on the streamer. A premiere date is TBD. Netflix additionally launched a teaser trailer, which will probably be accessible shortly.

As a part of The Sandman Universe for Netflix, the eight-part collection is a ghost story that explores loss, grief, and demise by means of the lens of Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland, two useless British youngsters, and their very alive buddy, Crystal Palace. So, it’s rather a lot like a classic detective collection — solely darker and on acid.

Right here’s the official synopsis: Do you’ve gotten a pesky ghost haunting you? Has a demon stolen your core recollections? You might wish to ring the Useless Boy Detectives. Meet Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri), “the brains” and “the brawn” behind the Useless Boy Detectives company. Youngsters born many years aside who discover one another solely in demise, Edwin and Charles are finest associates and ghosts… who remedy mysteries. They’ll do something to stay collectively – together with escaping evil witches, Hell and Dying herself. With the assistance of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her buddy Niko (Yuyu Kitamura), they can crack a few of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal instances. 

Forged additionally consists of Jenn Lyon, Briana Cuoco, Ruth Connell, Lukas Gage and David Iacono.

Useless Boy Detectives was developed for tv by Steve Yockey, who wrote the primary episode and serves as showrunner alongside Beth Schwartz as co-showrunner. Greg Berlanti, Yockey, Schwartz, Jeremy Carver, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman and Gaiman function government producers of the collection from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Tv. The primary episode is government produced and directed by Lee Toland Krieger.

Take a look at the teaser trailer above and see a pair first-look images under.