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Eric Heisserer Joins Chris Yost as Co-Showrunner on Peacock’s Dungeon Crawler Carl

This hire moves the straight-to-series adaptation into active creative leadership, pairing genre prestige with a built-in audience.

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Overview

  • Peacock announced on Friday, August 21, 2026 that Eric Heisserer will serve as co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Chris Yost on the live-action Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
  • The show is produced by Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door with Universal Global Television and lists MacFarlane, Erica Huggins, Rachel Hargreaves-Heald as executive producers and author Matt Dinniman as a co-executive producer.
  • Jeff Hays is the only cast member publicly attached so far, set to voice Princess Donut, and Peacock has not announced a full cast, a start of production date, or a release timeline.
  • Peacock gave the adaptation a straight-to-series order in mid-June and the official logline describes survivors of an alien invasion forced to compete on a sadistic intergalactic game show paired with a talking cat.
  • The TV pick-up leans on the franchise’s commercial weight: Dinniman’s LitRPG series has sold more than 14 million copies and recorded over 140 million Audible listening hours, a factor cited in the streamer’s decision to move quickly.