Overview
- Peacock officially greenlit a live-action adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl with a straight-to-series order announced on Friday, June 19, 2026.
- Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door and Universal Global Television are producing, Chris Yost adapted the books for television and will serve as an executive producer, and Dinniman will be a co-executive producer.
- Peacock supplied a logline that frames the show as a darkly comic, game-show-style apocalypse in which survivors compete after an alien invasion and protagonist Carl is paired with a talking cat named Princess Donut.
- Dinniman confirmed the pickup on social media and said he and Yost will appear at San Diego Comic-Con to give more details; casting, a production schedule, and a release date have not been announced.
- The straight-to-series order follows recent Peacock greenlights and illustrates a wider streamer strategy of fast-tracking adaptations of indie and LitRPG titles, a move that could accelerate development but leaves key creative and scheduling questions unresolved.