Overview
- Peacock officially added Eric Heisserer as co-showrunner on Friday, pairing him with previously attached writer Chris Yost and giving Heisserer an executive-producer role.
- The series was greenlit as a straight-to-series order in mid-June and is produced by Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door with Universal Global Television.
- Author Matt Dinniman is credited as a co-executive producer and Jeff Hays, who narrates the audiobooks, is the only announced cast member so far and will voice Princess Donut.
- The adaptation follows the books’ logline about survivors forced to fight on a sadistic intergalactic game show, and the series remains in early development with no filming dates or wider casting announced.
- The books offer a built-in audience — eight of ten planned novels are published, sales top 14 million copies, and the Hays-narrated audiobooks have logged more than 140 million hours on Audible — which may help attract further talent and investment.