FOX Entertainment and its Emmy-winning animation studio Bento Box Entertainment are tripling-down on the upcoming animated comedy Krapopolis, ordering a third season renewal for the latest project from hitmaker Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty, Community). The news was announced at London Screenings by Michael Thorn, President, Scripted Programming, of FOX Entertainment.
From Emmy Award winner, creator and executive producer Harmon and produced by FOX’s Bento Box (Bob’s Burgers, The Great North, Krapopolis, Grimsburg), Krapopolis will make its series premiere during the 2023-24 Season. Propelled by early fan response, the series, wholly owned by FOX Entertainment and distributed by its worldwide sales and distribution unit, FOX Entertainment Global, earned a Season 2 renewal last October.
“The 2023-24 Season is the perfect launching pad for this highly-anticipated and very funny animated comedy, complete with multiple seasons of epic laughs for fans,” said Thorn. “The more we see from production, the more excited we are about their creativity, story arcs, flawless execution, brilliant voice cast and ability to pump out episode after episode of astonishing events and outrageous, unexpected hilarity.”
An outgrowth of Harmon’s direct animation deal with FOX Entertainment, Krapopolis is set in mythical ancient Greece and tells the story of a dysfunctional family of humans, gods and monsters that try their hand at running the world’s first cities — without trying to kill each other, that is.
The series stars the Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) as the voice of Tyrannis, the mortal son of a goddess. He’s the benevolent King of Krapopolis, trying to make do in a city that lives up to its name. Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso) plays Deliria, Tyrannis’ mother, goddess of self-destruction and questionable choices. Within her extended Olympian family — forged in patricide and infidelity — she’s known as the trashy one. Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows) is Shlub, Tyrannis’ father, a mantitaur (half centaur [horse + human], half manticore [lion + human + scorpion]). He is oversexed and underemployed, claims to be an artist and has literally never paid for anything, in any sense of that word, for his entire life. Pam Murphy (Mapleworth Murders) voices Stupendous, Tyrannis’ half-sister, daughter of Deliria and a cyclops. And Duncan Trussell (The Midnight Gospel) plays Hippocampus, Tyrannis’ half-brother, offspring of Shlub and a mermaid, and obviously a hot mess, biologically speaking.
Additionally, FOX’s Web3 media and creative technology company Blockchain Creative Labs operates krapopolis.com — a dedicated marketplace for the program, marking network television’s first animated series to be curated on the blockchain — which sells digital goods and NFTs that provide fans exclusive experiences, including access to token-gated content, exclusive show voting rights, private Discord channels and access to meet-and-greets with the cast and crew.
