Scooby-Doo, a Great Dane who leads a group of teenagers in ghost-hunting adventures, made his debut in 1969 and the series ran for 17 years, a record for a TV animated series.

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They pulled the plug on several longer-running series, including dramas Cold Case, The Ghost Whisperer and Numbers along with comedies Gary Unmarried and The New Adventures of Old Christine.

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The same might go for director Kim Jee-woon, a talented Korean known for macabre ghost stories like "A Tale of Two Sisters, " whacky adventures ("The Good, the Bad, the Weird"), and grisly cop thrillers ("I Saw the Devil").

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