Ghostbusters: Night Shift is an upcoming animated series produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix. It is executive produced by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, the filmmakers behind Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, with Elliott Kalan and Ben Hibon also attached as showrunners and executive producers. The series spent several years in development under an untitled working name before entering full production.1
It is a separate project from the franchise's earlier cartoons, The Real Ghostbusters (1986 to 1991) and Extreme Ghostbusters (1997), and is the first new Ghostbusters animated series in decades.
Development
A new Ghostbusters animated series for Netflix was first reported on June 8, 2022. At that year's Ghostbusters Day event, Reitman and Kenan said the show would explore a previously unseen era of the franchise's canon, introduce new characters and locations, and was being produced with Netflix and Ghost Corps.1
In a March 21, 2024 interview, Gil Kenan said the series was in full development, with scripts being written and art being created, and described having seen a presentation of its sets, environments, and supernatural characters. On June 6, 2024, Sony Pictures Animation teased that the series was coming soon, and Netflix listed the then-untitled project among its family animation lineup.1
The series was officially greenlit by Netflix on August 12, 2024. Elliott Kalan joined as writer, showrunner, and executive producer. It was confirmed as a 3D animated series intended to be tonally in line with the recent Ghostbusters films. In April 2025, Flying Bark Productions announced it was working on the series and hiring in Sydney and Spain.1
At Ghostbusters Day on June 6, 2026 Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan annouced the official title was "Ghostbusters: Night Shift" and would be premiering on Netflix in 2027.