

Mike Judge conceived the idea for the show, drew the main characters, and wrote a pilot script.įox teamed the cartoonist with an experienced prime-time TV writer. Judge was a former resident of Garland, a suburb of Dallas, Texas considered the basis for the setting of the series, the fictional Arlen. In early 1995, after the successful run of Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, Mike Judge co-created King of the Hill with former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels. In January 2023, it was announced that Hulu picked up the revival. The show was renewed for a second season on October 18, 2019.

However, story editors Christy Stratton and Emily Spivey for King of the Hill are involved in the show. Despite this, Mike Judge is not involved in the series. King of the Hill has won two Emmy Awards and has been nominated for seven since its inception.Īnother animated series, Bless the Harts, takes place in the King of the Hill universe, and features Mega-Lo-Marts in the script. The title theme was written and performed by The Refreshments. In 2007, it was named by Time magazine as one of the top 100 greatest television shows of all time.
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The show has risen to become one of Fox's longest-running series, and after its end is currently the fourth longest-running American animated series on Fox behind The Simpsons and Family Guy. On November 1, 2018, all episodes became available for streaming on Hulu (sister of Disney-ABC). The series joined FXX's lineup on Septemshortly thereafter, Adult Swim regained partial syndication, and so FXX and Adult Swim share the syndication rights as of November 22, 2021. The series then aired reruns on Comedy Central from Jto November 2019, when the series was pulled from the lineup. The series' popularity has also led to syndication around the world, formerly running every night on Adult Swim from Januto June 29, 2018.

Judge and Daniels conceived the series after a run with Judge's Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, and the series debuted on the Fox Network on January 12, 1997, becoming a hit early on. It attempts to retain a realistic approach, seeking humor in the conventional or mundane aspects of everyday life and friends' lives. It centers on the Hills, a small-town Methodist family in Arlen, Texas. King of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from Januto Septemon FOX and Syndication only on May 3 to 6, 2010 which only leave it to a finale for FOX part separately from since FOX ended in 2009.
