Yahoo News King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt-Head tipped to return
Uhhhhh, Hey Beavis…. some of our favourite animated comedies could soon be back on telly.
Not many animated shows have maintained their following like Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill, which makes it kind of unbelievable that neither have been brought back in this era of TV revivals (aside from Beavis and Butt-Head's brief re-emergence in 2011).
The good news is that co-creator Mike Judge has been thinking a lot about bringing back both shows, but with some big changes to bring them up-to-date.
"It would have to have a passage of time," Judge said of a King of the Hill revival. "People have grown up. I think The Simpsons are so iconic just the way they're drawn, you can keep Bart that same age for 60 years.
"Our characters, it was starting to strain a little bit to have Bobby still be that age for that long."
As for reviving Beavis and Butt-Head, he said: "That's possible too. It came up two months ago. It's just a matter of coming up with an idea that feels like it's worth doing. They've talked about a movie possibly."
His interest in a revival echo comments made by Fox CEO Dana Walden, who said last year that she was keen to meet with Mike Judge and co-creator Greg Daniels to make more of King of the Hill.
"We had a very preliminary conversation given what's going on in the country, they had a point of view about how those characters would respond," she teased. "But again, it was one meeting and I hope to revisit it.
"The meeting was probably two and a half months ago. They're both very busy and it was really just a first exploratory, 'Are you excited about this? Is there potential in that future?' And they were both excited about it but they're working on a lot of different things individually, so it's about finding time."
King of the Hill originally aired from 1997 to 2010 on Fox in the US, while Beavis and Butt-Head's original run on MTV lasted from 1993 to 1997. A film spin-off, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, was released in 1996.
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