Seth MacFarlane continues his working relationship with the Universal streaming service, Peacock. After years of Family Guy and American Dad, MacFarlane has had great success in bringing his hit movie Ted to the small screen with a television prequel and the second season had recently premiered on the platform. MacFarlane is even thinking about making a new Ted feature exclusively for the streamer, saying, “I think all of us, in some form or another, whether it’s a Season 3 of Ted or a direct-to-Peacock feature with this cast, is something I think we’d all be up for. It’s all on the table.”
One of MacFarlane’s other developing projects at Peacock is an adaptation of Matt Dinniman‘s Dungeon Crawler Carl. According to Variety, Peacock has now officially given the show a series order. Dinniman posted about the news on social media, where he said,
Surprise! I’m happy to announce that our friends at Peacock have officially greenlit the Dungeon Crawler Carl television series. Me, Chris Yost and Seth MacFarlane and his team at Fuzzy Door are all really excited to get to work. In the coming weeks I’ll have more details, and if you’re going to SDCC be sure to catch me and Chris on our DCC panel. In the meantime I wanted to thank you, the fans, for helping make this happen.”sponsored content
Here’s the official logline for the forthcoming series:
“An alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show. Sounds bad, right? Now try doing it with bare feet and a stuck-up, self-centered, tiara-wearing talking cat as your partner. Welcome to Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, where the apocalypse will be televised … and Coast Guard vet Carl finds himself stuck with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning show cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they try to survive the end of the world, fighting monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even other survivors … all for the sake of good TV. Survival is optional. Entertainment is not.”
Cowboy Bebop and Thor: Ragnarok writer Chris Yost will write and executive-produce the series, with Seth MacFarlane executive-producing through his Fuzzy Door Studio, along with Rachel Hargreaves-Heald and Erica Huggins. Dinniman will also be executive-producing, but isn’t credited as a writer on the project.