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Peacock has given Dungeon Crawler Carl a straight-to-series order, tapping Chris Yost to write and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door to produce, as Matt Dinniman’s popular RPG novels head to TV with production set to begin without a pilot.
Peacock has ordered a straight-to-series live-action adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl, produced by Universal Global Television and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door. Chris Yost will write and executive-produce, with Dinniman and Yost set to lead a Comic-Con panel. Rights to the books were acquired in 2024. The logline centers on an alien invasion and a televised survival game show starring Carl and a self-absorbed talking cat as they fight for survival in a televised apocalypse.
Peacock has given a series order to Dungeon Crawler Carl, adapting Matt Dinniman’s bestselling books for TV with Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door producing alongside Universal Global Television. Chris Yost will write and serve as an executive producer, with Dinniman as a non-writing EP and MacFarlane also an EP. The logline centers on a post-apocalyptic Earth where survivors are forced to compete in a savage intergalactic game show, partnered with a talking cat; the book series has sold over 10 million copies, and the project originally landed at Peacock after Universal International Studios acquired it in 2025.