Sean Marshall There have been talks about Fox’s hit series King of the Hill getting a revival series for a few years now, but it looks like it is officially moving forward with Greg Daniels & Mike Judge at the wheel. Writer Brent Forrester teased fans with the revival last year via Reddit when he said that Judge & Daniels were in “hot negotiations” to bring the series back & also added that the updated ideas for the show are “sooooo good.”
The Hollywood Reporter spoke with creators Mike Judge & Greg Daniels about if or when we’d get the chance to see a King of the Hill revival & Daniels said that “We were very excited to go into different tones and different styles and try to expand the animation art form. We’re in a golden age for content, right? That’s animation, too. That was one of the things we were talking about in founding the company: ‘Let’s push animation into all these different genres.'”
Daniels told The Hollywood Reporter:
“We were very excited to go into different tones and different styles and try to expand the animation art form. We’re in a golden age for content, right? That’s animation, too. That was one of the things we were talking about in founding the company: ‘Let’s push animation into all these different genres’. Mostly what Bandera is doing is trying to get us in more of a supervisory role; that’s what we’ve been really concentrating on: using our taste and the people we’ve worked with and trying to help other people achieve their visions that we think are cool.”
Judge added: “There’s one show that I might be a co-creator of, but the rest, it’s mentoring other people and getting people together and being a studio in that regard.“
King of the Hill was created by Mike Judge & Greg Daniels for Fox & ran from 1997 to 2009. The series depicts the life & times of Hank Hill (Mike Judge), his family & their neighbors in the fictional suburb of Arlen, Texas, the heartland of America. A hard-working, loyal family man and proud Texan, Hank is the assistant manager of Strickland Propane. He’s a blue-collar Everyman who sees himself as the voice of common sense and reason in a world of incompetent sales clerks, meddling bureaucrats & do-good liberals.
There’s no release date set for the revival.
