Fire up the propane grill: King of the Hill is staying around for a while longer.
Hulu has ordered two more seasons of the revived animated series, the 16th and 17th overall and third and fourth seasons as a streaming original (King of the Hill aired on Fox for its 13-season original run). Season 14 premiered in August and is the first half of Hulu’s initial two-season, 20-episode order; season 15 is set to debut in 2026.
The show’s return brought in big viewing numbers for Hulu: During the week of season 14’s premiere, King of the Hill racked up 1.21 billion viewing minutes, according to Nielsen, with more than three fourths of that coming from the new episodes (the remainder was for the show’s prior seasons). It spent four weeks on Nielsen’s top 10 original streaming series chart, accumulating 2.91 billion minutes (485 million hours) of viewing over that time. Disney says King of the Hill has now passed 1 billion hours of watch time worldwide on Hulu and Disney+.
After several years of on-and-off speculation about a revival of King of the Hill, Hulu gave the show a straight-to-series order in 2023. Creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels are part of the revival, as are original castmembers Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, the late Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Lauren Tom, and Toby Huss.
Judge and Daniels executive produce King of the Hill with showrunner Saladin Patterson, Michael Rotenberg and Howard Klein of 3 Arts Entertainment and Dustin Davis of Judge and Daniels’ Bandera Entertainment. Disney’s 20th Television Animation is the studio.
