King of the Hill Revival Ordered at Hulu, With Most of Original Cast Returning — But Could a Key Role Be Recast?
Yep. It’s time to head back to the alley again.
King of the Hill is returning to TV with all-new episodes, via a series order at Hulu, TVLine has learned. The animated sitcom that centered on propane salesman Hank Hill and his family and friends in Arlen, Texas ran for a whopping 13 seasons on Fox from 1997 to 2009. The revival “will take place in fictional Arlen, Texas, in present day USA,” the streamer says.
Original stars Mike Judge (Hank), Kathy Najimy (Hank’s wife Peggy) and Pamela Adlon (Hank’s son Bobby) will return to reprise their voice roles in the revival, along with Stephen Root as Hank’s barber pal Bill and Johnny Hardwick as Hank’s paranoid bug exterminator friend Dale. Judge will once again provide the voice of mumbling womanizer Boomhauer, as he did on the Fox series. Ashley Gardner will return as Dale’s wife Nancy, as will Lauren Tom as neighbor Minh and also Minh’s daughter Connie. But Toby Huss, who voiced Minh’s husband Kahn on the Fox series, is absent from the revival’s cast list. (TVLine has reached out to Hulu to see if the role will be recast; click here to read why we definitely feel that they should.) Brittany Murphy, who voiced Hank and Peggy’s naive niece Luanne during the Fox run, passed away in 2009.
Co-creators Judge and Greg Daniels will return to executive-produce the revival, with Saladin Patterson (The Wonder Years, The Big Bang Theory) serving as showrunner.
“We are all so excited to welcome back Hank, Peggy and Bobby, and to see what they have to say about the world we live in and continue the conversations we began years ago,” Hulu president Craig Erwich said in a statement. “This show has all of the perfect ingredients to meet this moment in animation at Hulu, and we’re so thankful to be having those conversations alongside this talented group.”
Are you ready to sip a few more beers with Hank and his pals? Hit the comments and share your thoughts on the revival news.
Yup!
Will we see a time jump about Trump or is it getting simpsons treatment? Kids still?
I read it will be a time jump of 15 years. Interested to see what Bobby has grown into. And it should be easy to write Luann off (RIP Brittaney Murphy).
YES!
Maybe they can get Harry Shearer to voice Kahn
I think the point is to have an Asian actor voice the character.
Hmm, it’s almost like I sarcastically made that suggestion
Yup.
Hope they do a time jump with the revival. Loved the original series, but I think if they’re bringing it back, they need to do something new with it.
Yeah I too kind of want to see Bobby move on from Tom Landry (Especially since the voice actor for Principal Moss passed away)
My friends did the theme song…wonder if it’ll be updated! 😍🎸🥁
Loved Roger Clyne’s previous band The Refreshments “Yahoos & Triangles” still is one the best theme songs. Now when Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers throw it in the setlist, it always gets a great response.
This is Great…I can’t wait to see Hank Hill and the gang dealing with contemporary issues in modern times…I must say I’m suprised its on hulu and not Fox or Paramount plus where Mike judge has beavis and butthead. Overall though I’m just happy to have it back
Paramount never owned King of the Hill, anyway.
I tell you wot YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!
Any word on Joseph and his real dad?
p.s. someone elsewhere said Brittany had also voiced Joseph so just a reminder, that was only true the first few seasons. Breckin Meyer voiced him after puberty hit the character.
Yup.
“I’m a little worried about being a slut.”
“Okay”
I bet Toby Huss is not returning to voice Kahn because of recent sensitivity to white actors voicing non-white characters.
Plus Hulu has made a lot of people happy and now we’re finding out that the 3rd revival of futurama will launch this summer
What about the actors who voiced Joseph and John Redcorn?
I tell you what, ABOUT DAMN TIME!
Hopefully they write out Luanne and Lucky. It wouldn’t be the same without Brittany Murphy and Tom Petty voicing them.
I suspect they’ll Simpsons it – keep the characters more or less as they were even if it is now 202x.
I agree. I can bet Hank and Peggy took custody of Gracie after the deaths of Luanne and Lucky.
Oh I would for sure watch this!
Huh. Agree or disagree about Kahn, I’m surprised to see that Toby Huss isn’t attached at all. He also voiced Cotton and Joe Jack from the main cast, and I don’t think there’s any controversy about him voicing those characters. Cotton would certainly be missed if he isn’t present as much as Kahn.
Cotton is dead, he died in one of the last seasons, an episode I’m guessing you didn’t watch