A brand new Seth MacFarlane undertaking is formally in growth at Peacock.
What do we all know concerning the new Peacock present coming from Seth MacFarlane?
In accordance with a brand new report from Selection, a brand new live-action TV collection titled Dungeon Crawler Carl is in growth on the streamer. The collection, which relies on the LitRPG e-book collection of the identical identify by Matt Dinniman, can be written by Chris Yost, who additionally government produces the collection. MacFarlane can also be hooked up in an government producer position along with his Fuzzy Door banner. Dinniman, Eric Huggins, and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald may even function government producers.
“An alien invasion has worn out most of humanity and any survivors are pressured to combat for his or her lives on a sadistic intergalactic sport present,” reads the official logline of the present. “Sounds unhealthy, proper? Now strive doing it with naked toes and a stuck-up, self-centered, tiara-wearing speaking cat as your associate. Welcome to Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, the place the apocalypse can be televised . . . and Coast Guard vet Carl finds himself caught along with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning present cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they attempt to survive the tip of the world, preventing monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even different survivors . . . all for the sake of excellent TV. Survival is non-obligatory. Leisure shouldn’t be.”
The collection was initially acquired by Common Worldwide Studios in early 2025 and now has a house with Peacock. In an announcement on the discharge of the present, Dinniman assured followers that, though the present is live-action, partnering with MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door will lend to some nice seems to be.
“[We’re] not going to do it if it’s gonna appear to be absolute sh-t,” Dinniman mentioned. “And they’ll do CGI testing on Princess Donut and stuff like that. And that’s all I can say, I believe. It’s all gonna hinge on what it seems to be like. However Fuzzy Door, particularly, in case you watch ‘Ted’ or ‘The Orville,’ you’ll see that they know what they’re doing in terms of this.”
The Dungeon Crawler Carl e-book collection initially started in 2020 and has seen seven books launched so far, with the eighth set to be launched on Could 12, 2026.
(Supply: Selection)
