King of the Hill Revival Introduced at Hulu
King of the Hill is formally getting a revival on Hulu. Sequence creator Mike Decide is producing the revived animated comedy with longtime affiliate Greg Daniels, together with Saladin Patterson. Hulu has not but revealed when new episodes will seem on the platform.
Following the lives of the nuclear Hill household and neighbors in suburban Texas, King of the Hill launched in 1997, following carefully within the wake of Decide’s hit Beavis and Butt-Head. It ran for 13 seasons on Fox, ending in September 2009 and hitting Hulu in 2018. The present had a gentle stream of musical visitor stars through the years, together with Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, ZZ High, No Doubt, and the Chicks.
Tom Petty voiced the recurring character of Fortunate within the unique present, with the late Brittany Murphy holding a series-long position because the Hills’ niece, Luanne; the manufacturing has not shared how these characters can be handled within the revival. Stephen Root, Kathy Najimy, Johnny Hardwick, Pamela Adlon, and Laura Tom are all returning to their former King of the Hill roles.
The King of the Hill revival has been within the works for a number of years: In 2017, Dana Walden, chairman and CEO of Fox Tv Group, instructed Selection she had a preliminary dialog with Daniels and Decide about bringing the collection again. “Given what’s occurring within the nation, I feel they’d a perspective about how these characters would reply,” she mentioned.
Final 12 months, Decide and Daniels introduced the launch of the animation firm Bandera Leisure. The corporate’s initiatives reportedly embody an adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For with Carrie Brownstein. Beavis and Butt-Head bought a brand new season on Paramount+ in 2022, together with the function movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe.