--- title: Watch the Trailer for 'Veronica Mars' Spinoff, 'Play It Again, Dick' description: The trailer pokes fun at Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' canonical: https://time.com/3339445/veronica-marks-spinoff-play-it-again-dick/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-12T13:07:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:09:11.665Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the First Trailer for the 'Veronica Mars' Spinoff og:description: The trailer pokes fun at Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' og:url: https://time.com/3339445/veronica-marks-spinoff-play-it-again-dick/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb34a4f58b254a2a1/69869f64810bbb3cd9c92fe8/upload.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: upload og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the First Trailer for the 'Veronica Mars' Spinoff twitter:description: The trailer pokes fun at Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb34a4f58b254a2a1/69869f64810bbb3cd9c92fe8/upload.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the First Trailer for the _Veronica Mars_ Spinoff  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Sep 12, 2014 1:07 PM UTC  Ryan Hansen as Dick Casablancas and Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars in 'Veronica Mars' Ryan Hansen as Dick Casablancas and Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars in 'Veronica Mars'Warner Bros.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Sep 12, 2014 1:07 PM UTC _Veronica Mars_ fans were already treated to a Kickstarter-fueled movie revival this year. Now they’re getting a web series spinoff too. The new online show, _Play It Again, Dick_, is kind of meta: It follows Ryan Hansen (Dick Casablancas on _Mars_) making a _Veronica Mars_ spinoff. All the old favorites, including Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) and Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls) will play both themselves and their characters on the show. The episodes will air beginning on Sept. 16 on CW’s website, CW Seed. The new trailer for the show hilariously riffs on a recent trailer for season three of HBO’s _The Newsroom_, which (obnoxiously) featured no acting, just pages of the script falling out of the photocopier because perfectly worded diatribes are the real stars of an Aaron Sorkin show. The actors are just talking props. The _Play It Again, Dick_ trailer uses a similar ploy, but instead of lines of principled grandstanding, we see a script in which the words “this funeral is turning into a sausage fest” are written. Get excited. Here’s _The Newsroom_ trailer for reference: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3339445/veronica-marks-spinoff-play-it-again-dick/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3339445/veronica-marks-spinoff-play-it-again-dick/"},"headline":"Watch the First Trailer for the Veronica Mars Spinoff","datePublished":"2014-09-12T13:07:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:09:11.665Z","description":"The trailer pokes fun at Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom","url":"https://time.com/3339445/veronica-marks-spinoff-play-it-again-dick/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb34a4f58b254a2a1/69869f64810bbb3cd9c92fe8/upload.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb34a4f58b254a2a1/69869f64810bbb3cd9c92fe8/upload.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"upload","caption":"Ryan Hansen as Dick Casablancas and Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars in 'Veronica Mars'","creditText":"Warner Bros.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3339445/veronica-marks-spinoff-play-it-again-dick/","name":"Watch the First Trailer for the Veronica Mars Spinoff"}}]}] ```