New Delhi, July 2 -- The year is 1994. Kurt Cobain has just died. Pulp Fiction is weeks from its premiere. And somewhere in New York City, a new generation of Ghostbusters is about to discover that the supernatural problem the original team thought it had solved is very much still in business.

Night Shift, the animated series Netflix unveiled at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this week, and the creative ambitions behind it extend well beyond a single season order. For the first time since the franchise launched in 1984, original Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd is directly executive producing a canonical animated entry in the mythology, alongside producers Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, and Amie Karp, in a project designed to connect...