‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Based On Books Ordered By Peacock

Peacock has given a straight-to-series order to Dungeon Crawler Carl, a live-action series adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s popular science fantasy LitRPG (role-playing game) books. The project, which had been in development at the streamer, comes from Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door and Universal Global Television where the company is based. Dinniman, who serves as co-executive producer on the series, announced the pickup on social media.

In Dungeon Crawler Carl, written for television by film, TV and comic book writer Chris Yost, an alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show. Sounds bad, right? Now try doing it with bare feet and a stuck-up, self-centered, tiara-wearing talking cat as your partner. Welcome to Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, where the apocalypse will be televised … and Coast Guard vet Carl finds himself stuck with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning show cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they try to survive the end of the world, fighting monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even other survivors … all for the sake of good TV. Survival is optional. Entertainment is not.

Yost executive produces alongside Fuzzy Door’s MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald.

“Me, Chris Yost and Seth MacFarlane and his team at Fuzzy Door are all really excited to get to work,” Dinniman wrote. “In the coming weeks I’ll have more details, and if you’re going to SDCC be sure to catch me and Chris on our DCC panel.”

The series pickup caps a wild seven-year journey for Dungeon Crawler Carl, which originated in 2019 with vignettes Dinniman self-published on a digital platform as a hobby while not busy with his main job as a sketch artist at cat shows.

This is the second series order in the past two weeks at Peacock, which also greenlighted limited series The Break-In, a female thriller from the team behind the streamer’s hit All Her Fault.