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King of the Hill Reboot Gets Official Update Ahead of 2025 Release
An official listing confirmed the King of the Hill reboot episode count, hinting at its eventual release date.
King of the Hill originally aired on Fox for 13 seasons from 1997 to 2010, maintaining steady ratings and critical acclaim throughout its run.
After being officially ordered by Hulu in 2023, production on the King of the Hill reboot wrapped in October 2024.
Hulu's revival will age up key characters, with Bobby Hill entering adulthood, while also navigating the challenge of replacing late voice actors like Johnny Hardwick.
King of the Hill Reboot Episode Count Confirmed
A new listing on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) website notes that the King of the Hill revival will have 10 episodes in its first season.
The listing details episode credits for Season 14, set to air sometime this year, with 10 episodes written by a mix of returning and new writers.
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cm0002I heard Seth MacFarlane was producing it or writing it or something a while ago.
Sometimes it's best to just let stuff end.
peregrin5But that would mean creating new IP! Not to mention you're dropping something without fully squeezing every last cent from the nostalgia crowd!
By the last season, Hank's conservative views became less of a joke and more of "the conservative voice is sane and the woke liberals are bad". Plus Mike Judge was friends with Alex Jones and endorsed him. I always sensed a whiff of him being a closet Republican.
loriI wouldn't say Republican just hardcore libertarian. Which is still bad.
King of the Hill had a lot of fantastic writers and staff working on it, but it ran for a very long time. The politics of the show vary wildly as it goes on. The worst episodes in the show are the ones where it feels like Mike Judge personality saw half of a Fox News headline and got mad about trans fat bans or bond measures or the ADA. In some episodes it's a progressive show and in some it feels like the Mike Judge Twig Boy Hate Soapbox Hour.
Also Idiocracy basically promoting eugenics
It would be a way better movie if you just cut out that trash at the beginning. Even then it's iffy, but there's some bits of it that are very good and some bits that are very bad. But the eugenics angle really makes it hard to go back to now that I'm not a teenager.
Please dont
King of the Hill is maybe the show I have watched the most of in my life, I have a very deep love of this show, and...I could not possibly want it to return less. Between Mike Judge's work after it ended, his weird libertarianism not aging well, Hardwick's death and just being tired of reboots, I don't want it back. It belongs where it was.
Anyone know how they're handling hardwicke's death?
Unknown, though when it happened they revealed he had done some recording already. Though they didn't go into detail so it could be a couple lines or half the season
Hubs thinks they'll retire the char. Personally i think it would be a greater honour to keep him going. You could very easily have Dale decide in the age of voiceprints to refuse to give the gubment that data and voluntarily go mute and invent his own sign language
Honestly with how Futurama went with their reboot, my expectations are extremely low.
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You posted to the less active community again 😄
https://lemmy.world/comment/14716144
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Hopes deflated with yet another 10 episode season from a show.
TheGoldenGodSad, but feels like shrinkflation started with television shows. Then it wasn't long before they realized they could shrink everything, and still charge us the same prices.
It's pissed me off for about a decade.
Everyone shits on Krapopolis for some reason but it was a huge breath of fresh air realizing it had actual full seasons! It'd been a while since I thought "wait, there's more?!"
Technically one of the seasons was actually 2 sets of 12 episodes released but I'll take whatever win I can get.
MimicJarI guess I have a hard time seeing it as shrinkflation when most streaming shows are on average 10 episodes.
Sure King of the Hill used to be a network show and about 23 episodes per season, but as a streaming show it's about right.
Live action Hulu, Only Murders in the Building & The Bear are 10 episodes on average. Animated on Hulu, Solar Opposites & Hit-Monkey are 10 episodes.
Even if we go back to the first big streaming hit, House of Cards, that was 13 episode seasons.
I also miss the 23 episode seasons, but I'll take 10 great episodes over nothing.
magnetosphere…especially when I assumed (based on nothing) that the whole project had been shitcanned when Hardwick died.
They got some unknown amount of VO recorded for him so I guess they intend to use it. I have to assume that if they weren't this far along already they would have cancelled it but it sounds like they were pretty deep in already.
I don't care how long a season is anymore I just care how complete the idea is. The amount of shows with a satisfying ending is extremely low. And it's always been low but it's only getting worse. A ridiculous amount of shows just get tossed in the garbage as they're trying to develop a cohesive story.
Issue is, how many shows are there that have GREAT short seasons? World building has been so lacking in shows because of it. No time to explain, head to the next scene!
I know what you mean, but a show with good writing and directing can do a lot with very little. Even a show with a short season has much more time for world building than a two-hour movie. Hell, short seasons have more time than a trilogy of films.
Hill yea!
Also fyi there’s 2 KOTH comms that could be more active if ya like the show
!kingofthehill@lemmy.ml
!kingofthehill@lemmy.world
Well, I'll never post in a .ml comm again, but thanks for the non-.ml version, crossposted there lol
Feels like Dale would definitely have a red hat instead of an orange one in this one. Wonder if they'll avoid current politics; kind of hard to in today's Texas.
I mean realistically speaking a guy like Dale would have been horribly racist in the 90s and 2000s as well. But nobody wants that in a TV show so it made sense to just sidestep that and stick to the "fun" conspiracies. So I don't see why you'd change that now.