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“King of the Hill” Season 14 has generated 4.4 million views globally in its first seven days of streaming, becoming Disney+ and Hulu’s most-viewed adult animation season premiere in five years.

The latest installment, which returned on Aug. 4, premiered at No. 1 in Hulu’s Top 15 Today and has maintained a spot in the top five since. It also drove 26 million hours or a 41% lift in viewing of previous seasons since buzz began in early March.

Additionally, the series has crossed 1 billion hours streamed globally across the two streaming services. On social media, “King of the Hill” is No. 1 for most cross-platform views of Hulu original comedies in 2025 and No. 1 for most cross-platform engagements, shares and new followers of all Season 1 Hulu Originals in 2025

Season 14 follows Hank and Peggy Hill as they return to a changed Arlen, Texas, after years of working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg.

King of the Hill showrunner Saladin K. Patterson responds to a popular fan theory about Dale Gribble. King of the Hill season 14 reintroduces audiences to the world of Arlen, TX, years after the original run ended. The revival features a time jump with aged-up versions of the characters. In that time, Dale had temporarily become mayor of Arlen, but an old storyline also emerged.

Throughout King of the Hill, Dale's wife, Nancy, was having an affair with John Redcorn. Almost every character, except Dale, Peggy, and Joseph, are all aware of Nancy's indiscretions. Hank eventually tells Peggy the truth, much to her dismay. Nancy eventually breaks things off with John Redcorn, but starts the affair again before season 14.

In an interview with Popverse, Patterson responds to a fan theory that Dale is unaware of the affair as a result of being a conspiracy theorist. Even when presented with evidence, Dale's...

Hank’s next-door nemesis Kahn is back in Hulu’s new King of the Hill revival — but you might notice he doesn’t exactly sound the same.

Kahn, an immigrant from Laos who loves to needle Hank for being a hillbilly, was voiced by a white actor, Toby Huss, during King of the Hill’s original Fox run, which ended in 2009. But for the revival, the role was recast, with The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng (who was born in Malaysia and grew up in Singapore) taking over as Kahn.

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Weapons debuts with one of the strongest audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes this year. Written and directed by Zach Cregger, who made his debut with Barbarian in 2022, his new mystery horror film follows the puzzling disappearance of seventeen students from the same classroom, all of whom vanish on the same night, seemingly taken by an invisible force.

The Weapons cast includes Oscar nominee Josh Brolin (Milk), three-time Emmy nominee Julia Garner, Cary Christopher, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Oscar nominee Amy Madigan (Twice in a Lifetime), Toby Huss, June Diane Raphael, Whitmer Thomas, Callie Schuttera, Clayton Farris, Luke Speakman, and Scarlett Sher.

Now, on the day of its theatrical release, Weapons has debuted with a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is one of the strongest of this year. The film only has 500+ verified ratings at the time of writing, so its audience score is subject to change. Currently,...

Zach Cregger’s horror movie Weapons is already making a big splash before it even hits theaters. The film could pull in $6 million from its previews, beating out Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which earned $4.7 million from its Thursday night previews. Weapons is set to open in the United States on August 8, 2025, through Warner Bros. Pictures and has been impressing critics early on.

Right now, the movie holds a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it one of the highest-rated horror films of the decade so far, according to early reviews. The story is set in a small town where something strange happens one night.

Seventeen kids from the same classroom suddenly get up in the middle of the night and run out of their homes. None of them return. The only kid who stays behind is Alex Lilly, played by Cary Christopher. The town’s teacher, Justine Gandy, played by Julia Garner,...

Zach Cregger’s Weapons is headed for the biggest previews for a horror movie this year with $6M, beating Coogler’s Sinners, which earned $4.7 million from Thursday night previews. Weapons is already making a big splash before it even hits theaters. Set to release in the United States on August 8, 2025, through Warner Bros. Pictures, the movie has impressed critics early on.

It currently holds a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which makes it one of the highest-rated horror movie of the decade so far, according to early reviews.

The story is set in a small town where a strange event takes place one night. Seventeen children from the same classroom mysteriously get up and run out of their homes in the middle of the night. None of them return. The only child left behind is Alex Lilly, played by Cary Christopher. The town’s teacher, Justine Gandy, played by Julia Garner,...

Pedro Pascal is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's biggest stars and most in-demand actors. This year alone has been remarkable for Pascal, beginning in April with his return as surrogate father figure Joel Miller in HBO's The Last of Us season 2, a performance that earned him a second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

This summer alone, Pascal has starred in two A24 movies, Celine Song's romantic comedy Materialists and Ari Aster's neo-Western Eddington. In his biggest role yet, Pascal made his MCU debut as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Pascal was actually set to star in another movie this summer, though he exited the role early in pre-production.

Zach Cregger Explains Why Pedro Pascal Exited Weapons

Director Zach Cregger explains why Pedro Pascal exited his new horror movie, Weapons. Written and directed by Cregger, who made his buzzy...

For King of the Hill’s Stephen Root, who voices the titular Hank Hill’s long-time friend and neighbor Bill Dauterive, the decision to come back for a reboot of the Mike Judge and Greg Daniels co-created series 15 years after Fox canceled it was “a no-brainer.”

“Mostly, and it always is with these things, it was about the writing. Is the writing really good? And are these people you want to work with? A big yes to all of that,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter while talking about the animated comedy’s return alongside two of his co-stars. “At that point, it was 13 years of family, and we are one big family. We couldn’t wait to get back with each other.”

“I feel the same way,” adds Toby Huss, who voiced Hank’s father Cotton Hill, while reflecting on his decision to join the original series and reboot. “Initially...

Fifteen years after it was cancelled, Hulu rebooted King of the Hill, and a brand-new season was released on August 4, 2025. The voice actor for the character John Redcorn, Jonathan Joss, tragically passed away in early June 2025.

This led many to speculate if John/Indian Kid would return in King of the Hill Season 14. Luckily, Joss had recorded his lines for four episodes of King of the Hill Season 14 before his sudden death, so yes, the Indian Kid is back in the reboot!

Earlier this year, Joss had lost his house in a fire, and tied the knot to Tristan Kern de Gonzales. Whether or not he will be replaced as John Redcorn in the upcoming seasons of the adult animated series is uncertain at the time of writing.

Jonathan Joss’s John Redcorn Gets a Chance to Reconnect with His Son in King of the Hill Season 14 Joseph Gribble and...

Zach Cregger's new horror film Weapons is set to be released in theaters this Friday, and ahead of its debut, the director is opening up about the behind-the-scenes struggles that nearly derailed the project, including the exit of Pedro Pascal. Yes, we're talking about the Emmy-nominated actor who you might recognize from starring as the beloved Joel Miller character in HBO's The Last of Us.

Weapons would've looked much different than how it does now, according to Cregger in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly. The highly anticipated horror film originally had a high-profile cast attached, including Pascal, Brian Tyree Henry, Austin Abrams, and Renate Reinsve. However, the 2023 Hollywood strikes caused lengthy production delays. Due to these delays, actors who were originally attached, like Pascal, had scheduling conflicts and couldn’t stay on.

As a result, Cregger tells Entertainment Weekly that he had to recast the entire movie, except for Abrams,...

Zach Cregger’s new horror film Weapons hasn’t even hit theaters yet, but it’s already making waves. The movie is set to be released in the United States on August 8, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures, but early reviews are glowing. In fact, it’s holding a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the highest-rated horror movie of the decade so far.

The story takes place in a small town where something strange happens one night. Seventeen children from the same classroom suddenly wake up in the middle of the night and run out of their homes toward an unknown destination. None of them return. The only child who stays behind is Alex Lilly, played by Cary Christopher. His teacher, Justine Gandy, portrayed by Julia Garner, is left to figure out what happened, along with the devastated parents and the rest of the town.

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Josh Brolin plays Archer Graff,...

Zach Cregger is making waves in the horror world with his new film Weapons. The movie, written, produced, and directed by Cregger, has already made history before its U.S. release on August 8, 2025. Critics have praised it so highly that it currently holds a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the highest-rated horror film of the decade.

Out of 40 critic reviews listed on the site, every single one has been positive. Over on Metacritic, the movie has earned an impressive score of 81 out of 100, showing what reviewers call “universal acclaim.”

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The film tells a strange and unsettling story. One night, 17 children from the same classroom all wake up in the middle of the night, leave their homes, and vanish into the dark without explanation. Only one student, Alex Lilly, doesn’t disappear.

His teacher, Justine Gandy, along with the rest of the town, is left wondering what happened and why.

Weapons is just days away from its global release, and is set to be the second feature movie from director Zach Cregger. Having marked his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Barbarian, the new movie has garnered impressive critical reception and buzz ahead of its theatrical premiere.

As for fans who aren’t well-versed with the movie, or lack any idea what the movie is about and what to expect heading into the theatres this week, this article will break down everything that you need to know.

What Is the Movie About?

Set in the fictional town of Maybrook, the horror thriller from the Barbarian director revolves around the mysterious disappearance of 17 third-graders, after they simultaneously leave their home at 2:17 a.m. in the night.

A still from Zach Cregger’s Weapons | Credit: Warner Bros.

With only one kid remaining, Alex, the teacher. Justine Gandy becomes the centre of suspicion,...

Josh Brolin and Julia Garner have a lot of friends in common, so when they found their way to lead roles in Zach Cregger’s Weapons, those pals whispered all good things in their ears.

“People kept saying, ‘You guys are going to love each other and it’s going to be great,’” Brolin explained to The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s Los Angeles premiere last Thursday. “I got nervous then because I kept thinking, well, what if it’s not great? I’m not going to agree to work with someone just because another person tells me that I’m going to like ‘em.”

Spoiler alert: They loved each other.

“We just hit it off immediately,” Brolin said with a smile. “Like immediate cellular, sibling shit.”

Brolin and Garner at a Weapons screening at New York’s AMC Empire. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures...

Plot: After years working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg, Hank and Peggy Hill return to a changed Arlen, Texas to reconnect with old friends Dale, Boomhauer and Bill. Meanwhile, Bobby is living his dream as a chef in Dallas and enjoying his 20s with his former classmates Connie, Joseph and Chane.

Review: King of the Hill has been off the air since 2009 and a lot has changed since then. The world is a very different place and so there is always the question of whether or not that the humor would translate into modern era. And I’m happy to say that this new iteration absolutely nails the tone and spirit of what made Koth great. This is my favorite animated series of all time, so I had very high expectations, and they were met in just about every way.

Season 14 follows Hank...

Weaponswriter and director Zach Cregger explains how Pedro Pascal derailed the whole film.

Speaking toEntertainment Weekly, Cregger discussed how both the 2023 WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes and the complex shooting schedule of original star Pedro Pascal led to the entire film being overhauled early on in production. "I had a whole different cast for this movie. And then we had the strike, and then Pedro Pascal's schedule threw us into turmoil. I had to recast the whole movie," Cregger recalled.

Cregger began working on Weapons shortly after the success of his breakout hit horror feature Barbarian in 2022. Previously noted as being partly inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 epic drama Magnolia, hype surrounding Weapons started roiling early on, with news breaking in May 2023 that The Fantastic Four: First Steps star Pedro Pascal had signed on for the film. After Pascal exited the feature, fan-favorite actor Josh Brolin signed on as the film's protagonist,...

King of the Hillvoice star Toby Huss explains exactly what the reboot is all about.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Huss, who previously voiced fan-favorite characters such as Kah Souphanousinphone and returned to take over the role of Dale Gribble for the late Johnny Hardwick in the King of the Hill revival series, touched on the "common thread" that runs through each character in the series. "And this [reboot] is about going back and revisiting these people, and letting them sit in your life for half an hour at a time, and I think that’s a really special treat to give people," Huss added.

Co-created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, King of the Hill originally appeared on Fox back in 1997 and amassed a whopping 259 episodes across its first thirteen seasons. The series largely revolves around the members of the Hill family of the fictional suburban town of Arlen, Texas.

Two years ago this Friday, the King of the Hill fandom and the conspiracy theorist community lost one of their brightest stars with the death of beloved voice actor Johnny Hardwick — or, at least, that’s what the Atf wants you to think.

When Hardwick passed away at the age of 64, he was halfway through recording his lines for the newly released revival season of King of the Hill, leaving his fellow voice star Toby Huss to take over the fan-favorite role of Dale Gribble, professional exterminator and extrajudicial surveillance expert. Through his outlandish (and entirely correct) theories about secretive government organizations, his insane schemes to expose his friends and neighbors for their own clandestine operations and his hilarious obliviousness of his wife’s relationship with John Redcorn, Dale developed a following of his own unlike any other King of the Hill character during the original run, and the Hulu...

Fifteen years after its broadcast farewell, King of the Hill returned on August 4 with ten brand-new episodes streaming exclusively on Hulu in the United States and via the Hulu hub on Disney+ overseas, marking the show’s first season produced for a purely digital platform.

The revival—shepherded by showrunner Saladin K. Patterson alongside creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels—opens with Hank and Peggy Hill stepping off a decade-long propane assignment in Saudi Arabia to discover an Arlen transformed by smartphones, ride-share apps and boutique boba cafés.

Bobby is now a twentysomething chef running a German-Japanese fusion spot in Dallas, while alley companions Dale, Boomhauer and Bill waste no time resuming lawn-chair philosophising—reminding audiences why the original series became a comfort staple.

Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Root and Lauren Tom reprise their roles, and recordings left by the late Johnny Hardwick allow Dale Gribble to feature...

King Of The Hill season 14 has premiered with ten brand-new episodes on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+!

After years working a propane job in Saudi Arabia to earn their retirement nest egg, Hank and Peggy Hill return to a changed Arlen, Texas to reconnect with old friends Dale, Boomhauer and Bill. Meanwhile, Bobby is living his dream as a chef in Dallas and enjoying his 20s with his former classmates Connie, Joseph and Chane.

Season 14 Cast: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Lauren Tom, and Toby Huss.

We had a chance to catch up the King of the Hill cast during San Diego Comic Con, as well as check out the amazing activation that was a must visit for all fans of the series!

When speaking with Mike Judge, he commented that “there were so many ideas floating around and during the beginning we used to compare the Andy Griffith Show…...

King of the Hill premiered in January of 1997. In all kinds of ways, that was a different world: before 9/11; before the forever wars in the Middle East; before smartphones; before birtherism; before QAnon; before Covid; before January 6th; before a lot of other world events that became red meat for conspiracy theorists. When viewers first met Dale Gribble (voice of Johnny Hardwick), his anti-government beliefs were so quaint they were easy to laugh at, but many may now be wondering how he plays in Season 14.

The short answer: generally not too unbearable!

The worst of Dale — like the worst of the season — is in the premiere. Hopes that electoral politics might not come up at all are dashed as we learn about Dale’s successful mayoral run, standing out from the 10 other candidates by opposing all masks. If I never have to hear about election deniers as though they espouse a cogent political philosophy,...

After a 15-year wait, it’s time to dust off your favorite draft beer and break out the grill retrofitted with propane and propane accessories because King of the Hill is back.

The Emmy-winning series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels picks up several years after we last saw the Hill family. Hank (Judge) and Peggy Hill (Kathy Najimy) are now retired and return to a more modern Arlen, Texas, after years of working in Saudi Arabia. Their son Bobby (Pamela Adlon) is 21 and living his best life while navigating adulthood as a Japanese-German fusion cuisine chef in Dallas. The Hills’ friends — conspiracy theorist Dale (Johnny Hardwick/Toby Huss), bumbling barber Bill (Stephen Root), fast-talking Boomhauer (Judge), new neighbor Brian Robertson (Keith David), perfectionist Minh (Lauren Tom), news anchor Nancy (Ashley Gardner) and Bobby’s friend Connie (Tom) — also make appearances as they help their friends process the changing world.

It’s been 15 years since fans were last blessed with a new episode of “King of the Hill” — but time has kept on trucking for the good people of Arlen, Texas, the same as it has in real life.

Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ animated sitcom returned with Season 14 on Monday, complete with a time jump that sees Peggy and Hank Hill returning from a propane job in Saudi Arabia to find Bobby as a 20-something chef in Dallas. Ahead of the premiere, showrunner Saladin K. Patterson and voice actors Stephen Root, Toby Huss and Lauren Tom opened up to TheWrap about why 2025 is the right time to bring the beloved series back.

“I think people really need it. I think it’s just perfect timing, because the world is so crazy right now,” Tom said. “I’ve heard from many fans that we are a bit of a comfort show for them,...

Remakes, revivals, and reboots are a given nowadays, and fans are always wary about seeing their favorite films and shows continued after several years. However, King of the Hill seems to have found the perfect formula to do it.

After 15 years, King of the Hill has returned with Season 14. The revival of the hit animated series debuted on Aug. 4 with a full season of 10 episodes. After winning over the critics with a 100% score ahead of its release, the audience agreed with the first opinions, giving the King of the Hill revival a near-perfect 94% approval score on the Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ahead of the show's premiere, critics who got a chance to see the show gave King of the Hill a perfect score of 100%. Many of them called it the "rare revival that is able to age its characters and modernize the world," with a different review calling it "the...

The much-belated 14th season of Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’s King of the Hill is that rare TV revival that doesn’t coast on nostalgia or mere reverence. The series picks up more or less where it left off 15 years ago, pushing forward by digging into the quietly ridiculous, deeply familiar rhythms of everyday life in Texas in 2025. It’s still comically dry, character-driven, and capable of shifting, without warning, into moments of low-key profundity.

The series sidesteps the streaming-era trap of many reboots that focus, with forced sentimentality and clunky topicality, on characters who are out of step with modern sensibilities. Instead, this revival feels casual but considered. Life in the fictional Texas town of Arlen remains as unhurried as ever, as does King of the Hill’s gently loping, observational beats, which are attuned to its characters as they are—quirks, contradictions, and all.

What’s most...

In an era of reboots, sequels and seemingly never-ending franchises, the “why now?” of bringing a show like King of the Hill back is “the most important question,” says its new showrunner Saladin K. Patterson.

For the adult animated comedy, which debuted its story about a family living in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, on Fox in 1997, the “why?” begins at San Francisco Sketch Fest 2017. That’s when co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels did a table read of an episode from the original series, which had concluded its 13-season run seven years earlier.

“The fan response was just so strong that they realized there was still an appetite for these characters. People want to know what the characters are doing,” Patterson recalls to The Hollywood Reporter. “There are always memes online, [fans asking], ‘I wonder how Hank Hill will respond to this?’ That’s always a good sign.”

That journey...

Perhaps the most unhinged character on “King of the Hill” during that show’s original run from 1997 to 2009 was pest exterminator and out-there conspiracy theorist Dale Gribble. As originally voiced by the late Johnny Hardwick, Dale’s fringe viewpoints — which frequently centered on government cover-ups and doomsday prepping — were seen as a bit of harmless fun.

Cut to 2025, and “King of the Hill” is back on television for a long-awaited Season 14 on Hulu. A lot has changed, and perhaps most notably, Dale’s views are now more mainstream than many would care to admit.

“Nationally, we’ve made a turn towards Dale,” says Toby Huss, who took over as the voice of the character in Episode 7 of the new season, following Hardwick’s death. “I hope we’re all Ok with that.”

Of course, in its early-21st-century run on Fox, “King of the Hill” was never an overtly political show.

King of the Hill is back with new episodes after a 15-year hiatus, and so are some side characters who we never expected to make it out of 2010.

Earlier today, Hulu released the first season of its King of the Hill revival, which brought the beloved animated series into the present day with an ambitious time-jump that turned Bobby Hill into a 21-year-old professional chef, Hank and Peggy into retirees recently returned from Saudi Arabia and Dale Gribble into a slightly older but otherwise entirely unchanged Dale Gribble. King of the Hill has broken free from the floating timeline that trapped the child characters in a 13-year pre-pubescence, and half the fun of the stellar new season has been seeing how so many iconic characters matured into the modern era.

While Hank, Peggy, Bobby, Dale, Bill, Boomhauer and the Souphanousinphone family were all expected to return, this time-jumped version of Arlen,...

In the original version of Arlen, Texas, change was slow-to-nonexistent — but that was before they had a significant vay-gan community.

After a 15-year hiatus, King of the Hill is back with a new season on Hulu that aged-up its iconic characters in a bold and unusual departure from the show’s original floating timeline. Rather than transport the Hill family and their neighbors into the present day without addressing the decade-and-a-half break between seasons, Mike Judge, Greg Daniels and their writers decided to allow their characters to age and mature to the point where Bobby is a 21-year-old head chef at his own (partially owned) restaurant, Hank and Peggy are retirees fresh off an extended stay in Saudi Arabia and Dale Gribble is… well, still Dale.

The present-day characters of the King of the Hill reboot run the gamut from virtually unchanged to massively matured, and after binging all 10 episodes...

Before the legacy revival of "King of the Hill" hit the Hulu streaming waves, the hit animated sitcom from Mike Judge and Greg Daniels had been off the air for 15 years. Despite ending during the early years of the Obama administration, the series' themes feel strikingly relevant even today. "King of the Hill" took a satirical yet heartfelt look at American life through the lens of the Hill family; patriarch Hank Hill (voiced by Judge), a propane salesman with strong principles, lives with his multi-talented wife Peggy (Kathy Najimy), who works as a substitute teacher (among many other things), their eccentric and sensitive son Bobby (Pamela Adlon), their naïve niece Luanne (the late Brittany Murphy), and the rest of the denizens of the fictional Texas town of Arlen.

Often written off as just another show poking fun at Southern stereotypes, "King of the Hill" is much deeper than it appears.

King of the Hill is back, and thankfully, Hulu really nailed it by adding enough change to keep things interesting, but not so much as to make it a different show.

What’s most familiar about the show, of course, is its voice cast — namely, Stephen Root, who reprises his role as Bill Dauterive; Lauren Tom, who plays both Minh Souphanousinphone and her now-adult daughter Connie; and Toby Huss, who used to play Kahn Souphanousinphone (a part since handed off to The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng), but has now taken over the role of Dale Gribble after his original actor, Johnny Hardwick, passed away during production.

All three recently joined me via Zoom for a spoiler-ish talk about their return trip to Arlen, Texas.

So, what’s it like to be returning to King of the Hill?

Stephen Root: It’s like coming home and seeing your family.

Lauren Tom: Just a great,...

The following contains spoilers for the first episode of the "King of the Hill" revival, which is now streaming on Hulu.

Mike Judge's family sitcom "King of the Hill" was a near-perfect slice of animated Americana that showed audiences a sweet and silly side of Texas that felt like home, even if you'd never been there. It's sadly been more than 15 years since we last got to spend time with the Hill family and their neighbors on Rainey Street, but the new Hulu revival aims to give fans that same comforting feeling all over again (with a few fresh updates). Instead of just trying to continue where things left off, the show is essentially picking up in real-time, with pre-teen son Bobby Hill (Pamela Adlon) now in his early 20s. Similarly, Hank (Judge) and Peggy (Kathy Najimy) have been away for several years saving up a nest egg for retirement,...

Hulu is bringing back the animated classic King of the Hill — and it may look a little different than you remember.

Unlike The Simpsons, where Bart remains a grade-school prankster forever, King of the Hill decided to age up its characters for Hulu’s revival — premiering Monday, Aug. 4 — with Hank and Peggy’s son Bobby all grown up and Hank’s friend Boomhauer sporting a few new wrinkles. (The original Fox run wrapped up back in 2009.) So why did they decide to bring the good people of Arlen into the future?

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It isn’t easy to comedically turn the clock back to the 1990s. Just ask Happy Gilmore 2, a formless, two-hour blob of Adam Sandler’s family and celebrity friends, with no real creative drive to speak of.

But for several beloved animated shows, what had seemed so difficult for Sandler and company has been made to look relatively easy. Both Beavis and Butt-Head and Futurama, two series that premiered in the late ’90s and have earned multiple resurrections, made smooth transitions to a new era of television and will be premiering new seasons in September. I liked both shows originally, and like both revivals.

Returning first, though, is King of the Hill, which aired from 1997 to 2009. Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ Texas-set slice of life, which always seemed right on the edge of going full dramedy in a broadcast landscape that required an exclusive dedication to laughs, ran 250-plus episodes,...

When Johnny Hardwick, who voiced King of the Hill’s lovable conspiracy theorist Dale Gribble, died in August 2023, fans couldn’t help but wonder what that meant for the then-recently announced Koth revival. Would Dale, one of the core characters, be killed off? Would he be recast?

Two years later, they finally got their answer when Variety reported that Toby Huss would be taking over the character.

In the original series, Huss provided the voices for Hank Hill’s neighbor Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank’s father Cotton Hill and Hank’s co-worker Joe Jack. With Hank’s retirement and Cotton’s death in Season 12, it’s unclear if Huss will ever play those latter two roles again, but it’s been confirmed that he will not reprise the role of Kahn, as it was decided that the Laotian character should be played by an Asian actor. And so, The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng,...

While the reboot idea for ’90s and 2000s pop culture is already played out, there are some exceptions that come back as if they never went away. King of the Hill decided against coming back exactly as it was, allowing the series to age as if he had been away for nine years. The result is a more mature show that digs into the world as it is in 2025, while also exploring new dynamics between the Hills and their Arlen neighbors. While some shows have found a rocky reception upon their return, King of the Hill feels fresh and insightful in ways only this series ever could.

King of the Hill Season 14 Plot

After working for a propane company in Saudi Arabia, Hank (Mike Judge) and Peggy Hill (Kathy Najimy) return to Arlen, Texas. Their son, Bobby (Pamela Adlon), is now a chef at a German and Japanese fusion restaurant...

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Fake Profile is a Colombian erotic thriller drama series created by Pablo Illanes. The Netflix series follows Camila Román, a stripper who falls for a man with a fake Tinder profile, but when she discovers that he has a family,...

King of the Hill fans are heading back to Arlen after 15 years, as the hit animated series has been revived. An all-new season is set to drop on Hulu for a streaming release on Aug. 4, 2025.

Sadly, some members of the King of the Hill family have since passed away. This includes Brittany Murphy and Tom Petty, who respectively voiced Luanne and Lucky. It had been unclear if the characters would be featured in the revival, and fans were wondering if the two might come back with new voice actors in the roles. In a recent interview with IGN to promote the revival, showrunner Saladin Patterson confirmed that Lucky and Luanne weren't recast, as that just wouldn't have felt right.

"The analogy I use as a sports fan is, sometimes the best way to honor someone's work is to hang their jersey up in the rafters as a show of respect...

Julia Garner is on a roll, after the success of Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, where she plays Shalla-Bal aka the Silver Surfer. Her next release with Barbarian director Zach Cregger, Weapons, is getting critical appreciation. While her two roles can’t be far apart, the actor’s performances are winning hearts all around as critics have spoken on Rotten Tomatoes.

Weapons has garnered a 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score from the critics. The movie sees Garner as a school teacher investigating children going missing in the town. While it sounds like a regular supernatural horror the movie takes twists and turns unfathomable. With the resurgence of interest in the horror genre with movies like Sinners and Nosferatu, recently, fans are enjoying the diverse themes covered by new movies.

What to Expect From ‘Weapons’?

Weapons follow a fictional town that experiences a massive loss after 17 children seemingly disappear without a trace one morning.

After 15 years, King of the Hill is back with all-new episodes. A revival of the animated show is debuting on Hulu on Aug. 4, and days ahead of launch, early reviews from critics have declared the new King of the Hill to be a hit.

As of this writing, the revival, which essentially serves as the 14th season of King of the Hill, holds a perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Potentially, the number will drop when more reviews come in, but debuting with a rare perfect score is certainly an incredible start. Critics are praising the revival for bringing something new to King of the Hill while maintaining the classic charm of the original show.

"It's the rare revival that is able to age its characters and modernize the world, but still feel like the dang ol' king," as Collider critic Nate Richard put it.

Daniel Kurland of Den of Geek noted,...

King of the Hillseason 14 will include one big change from the animated comedy's original run. The revived King of the Hill will finally debut on August 4 on Disney and Disney+ with Hulu, and all episodes will be available to stream on that date. Several voice actors reprise their roles, including Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, and Pamela Adlon.

But despite the returning voice cast, not everything about the new King of the Hill will be the same. Executive producer and showrunner Saladin Patterson revealed to IGNthat there will be more cursing. Patterson, who executive produces alongside series co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, talks in the quote below about being advised by Hulu to include fewer swear words:

I mean, we certainly talked about that creatively. How much do we want to push it? And it was all about staying within the tone and character of the original show and the characters themselves.

2025 has already had some strong horror titles that have impressed both critics and audiences. Most notably, this included Ryan Coogler's Sinners, which came out in April of this year. The movie did well at the box office, and got great reviews, scoring a 97% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes.

One of the film's champions was ScreenRant's Mae Abdulbaki, who gave the movie 9 out of 10 stars. She praised the film's pacing and use of music, while also saying that it was "already one of the best films of the year."

Another of this year's well-rated horror films was Bring Her Back. Unlike Sinners, the movie did not do as well as it could have at the box office, but nonetheless managed an 89% Tomatometer.

Even with these initially strong titles, there is still a long year in horror to come. Tomorrow includes the release of Together, and the fall is slated for some exciting releases,...

Director Tony Tost reimagines the modern-day American west as a murderous game of cat and mouse in his new film Americana.

Filmed in 2022, Americana had its world premiere at South by Southwest in March 2023, and Lionsgate later acquired the distribution rights. It finally has a theatrical release date of Aug. 15, 2025. Based on early reviews, the crime thriller currently has a 100 percent score at Rotten Tomatoes, with film critics praising its "gallows humor, compelling performances, and a big heart" (IndieWire).

Who's in the cast?

Americana spotlights a talented ensemble including Sydney Sweeney as Penny Jo Poplin, Paul Walter Hauser as Lefty Ledbetter, Halsey as Mandy Starr, Eric Dane as Dillon MacIntosh, Zahn McClarnon as Ghost Eye, Gavin Maddox Bergman as Cal Starr, Simon Rex as Roy Lee Dean, Derek Hinkey as Hank Spears, Toby Huss as Pendleton Duvall, Harriet Sansom Harris as Tish, and Donald Cerrone as Sheriff Cole Pickering.

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With just a week left before the return of King of the Hill, the show’s loyal fandom is gripped with both fear and excitement. A great many beloved shows from yesteryear have returned recently with varying results — Beavis and Butt-Head rocked, but Frasier most decidedly did not. So how will the citizens of Arlen, Texas fare in 2025?

I waded through hell and high water in Facebook’s biggest King of the Hill fan group to better understand the hopes and fears of the show’s biggest fans.

The very first response I got from my initial post was from a user who expressed their fear that the show could “go completely Woke.” This is, of course, to be expected in our godforsaken political climate, but I was still surprised by the number of comments utterly consumed with this worry. One person even shared their brazenly ignorant hope that...

We may all be familiar with King of the Hill’s Dale Gribble, but embodying the pocket-sand-throwing, Manitoba-smoking spirit of Arlen’s most famous conspiracy theorist is no easy task.

During the King of the Hill panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, voice actor Toby Huss got candid about the challenge of taking on the late Johnny Hardwick’s iconic role in the show’s upcoming revival, revealing that no one did it quite like his former co-star. “I’m not going to improve on what Johnny did,” Huss explained when asked about his approach to Dale, per IGN. “But I hope he approves of it.”

Ahead of the show’s 14th season, which is set to hit Hulu on August 4th, it was announced that Huss, who voiced several characters, including Cotton Hill and Kahn Souphanousinphone during the show’s original run, would continue the role of Dale...

King of the Hill is making a return to the small screen after a 15-year hiatus, but the new episodes will come with a shakeup in the cast. This includes adding more diverse characters in the revival while recasting multiple characters.

These changes were discussed during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. Per Entertainment Weekly, the panel was attended by series co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels alongside voice actors Pamela Adlon (Bobby), Lauren Tom (Connie), Toby Huss (Dale), and Kathy Najimy (Peggy). Showrunner Saladin K. Patterson was also present, and he explained how the revival is comparatively more diverse given how times have changed since 2010.

"It was important in the show, the world has changed a little bit since Hank and Peggy have been gone," Patterson noted. "Casting has changed a little bit too since Hank and Peggy have been gone, as far as, actors fit the characters that they're portraying.

It's been nearly 16 years since "King of the Hill" originally went off the air but in the streaming era, everything old is new again. That being the case, Hulu has resurrected Mike Judge's beloved animated series about Hank Hill and the Hill family who reside in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas. Get ready to see an adult Bobby Hill, a retired Hank and Peggy, and oh so much more.

The original series aired for a whopping 14 seasons on Fox from 1997 to 2009, becoming a staple of the network's animation block right alongside "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy." Now, the show is headed to the world of streaming for a new series of adventures. For those who are looking forward to the show's return, we're here to give you everything you need to know about the "King of the Hill" reboot, from when you'll be able to watch it, what it's all about,...

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Alison Brie has had one of the most interesting and successful careers in the film industry. Brie began her acting career with a small role in the popular Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, but her career took off after her impressive performances in both Mad Men and the cult classic comedy series Community. So, if you love Brie’s performances, here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Alison Brie you should not miss out on.

10. Somebody I Used to Know (Prime Video) Credit – Amazon Studios

Somebody I Used to Know is a romantic comedy film directed by Dave Franco, who also co-wrote the movie with Alison Brie. The 2023 film follows Ally, a popular reality TV showrunner who returns to her hometown and meets her ex, who’s about to get married. She soon begins to question...

Ahead of its theatrical release this August, New Line Cinema’s newest supernatural horror movie Weapons has received its first reactions, teasing another massive hit for the Barbarian director Zach Cregger. Just like the acclaimed 2022 movie, Cregger is also directing from a screenplay he wrote.

As seen on social media, the first reactions to Weapons have finally arrived online from early screenings, with most critics praising Cregger’s vision and direction. On X, FilmSpeak's Griff Schiller called the movie “a horror masterpiece and the best film of the year,” while also comparing it to Denis Villeneuve and Paul Thomas Anderson movies. “It's Prisoners by way of Magnolia with some of the Coen's absurdist humor. An absolutely Brilliant commentary on the attitudes and institutions during the fallout of a communal tragedy.” He adds, “a chilling masterclass in suspense and Pov storytelling that exposes a society with dwindling empathy that tolerates dehumanizing acts.

“King of the Hill” is planning to pay tribute to late cast members Johnny Hardwick and Jonathan Joss via memoriam cards that will run during episodes of the show’s upcoming revival on Hulu. Both Hardwick and Joss appear on Season 14 of the show, having voiced their characters before their deaths.

“King of the Hill’s” executive producers revealed these tributes on Friday during the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel. The producers also shared a bit more about how they’re referencing the characters of Luanne and Lucky – voiced by the late Brittany Murphy and rock star Tom Petty – both of whom passed before the recent revival. And they noted the passing this week of musician Chuck Mangione, another “King of the Hill” staple.

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The Hardwick tribute (above) had previously been announced during the show’s panel last month at the Atx Television Festival in Austin. During that event,...