Having created Beavis and Butt-Head for MTV and King of the Hill for FOX, Mike Judge is working on a new animated series for ABC, according to Daily Variety. The Network has ordered 13 episodes of The Goode Family, with King of the Hill exec producers John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky on board. The show will be produced by Media Rights Capital, the company behind ABC’s short-lived animated Clerks series and a number of successful independent live-action films.
Judge launched King of the Hill in 1997 and moved on to live-action films with the 1999 cult favorite Office Space and last year’s comically prophetic Idiocracy, while continuing to oversee King and travel with The Animation Show, a festival he launched with fellow animator Don Hertzfeldt.
The Goode Family will revolve around a family that tries to do the right thing in all facets of life. In addition to being Judge’s first new toon venture in more than a decade, the series is also ABC’s first animated show since Clerks debuted in 2000. Lately, FOX has been the only major U.S. broadcast network to make animation work in primetime in a big way, boasting such hits as The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad, as well as King of the Hill.
Media Rights Capital has also reportedly inked a deal with HBO to create 10 episodes of a new animated series titled The Life and Times of Tim, about a single New Yorker who wrongly follows his instincts. HBO’s first animated series since Todd MacFarlane’s 1997 dark superhero actioner, Spawn, the show is created and voiced by former ad exec Steve Dilderian. Initially developed by FOX and Warner Bros. TV, Tim is slated to begin airing this summer.
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