• King of the Hill is returning for a brand new season greater than 15 years after its cancellation.
• Mike Choose, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon are among the many forged members reprising their roles.
• The ten-episode revival premieres this August on Hulu.

Crack open an alley beer and breathe in that propane-tinged air — King of the Hill is again.

Mike Choose and Greg Daniels' Emmy-winning animated collection bowed in 2009 after 13 seasons and over 250 episodes about Hank Hill (Choose), a propane (and propane equipment) salesman in Arlen, Tex. Because the world modifications round him, the conservative household man tries his greatest to be a very good husband to Peggy (Kathy Najimy) and father to Bobby (Pamela Adlon), whose sensitivity and theatrics incessantly baffle him.

Choose and Daniels have toyed with the thought of reviving the collection since as early as 2017, but it surely took till January 2023 for it to get a collection order.

So, when is it out? Will there be a time leap? Is there a trailer? Right here's every thing we all know concerning the King of the Hill reboot.

What’s the King of the Hill reboot about?

Hulu's official announcement reveals that the brand new season of King of the Hill will choose up "a number of years after we final noticed the Hill household."

It continues, "Hank and Peggy Hill are actually retired and return to a modified Arlen after years of working in Saudi Arabia; and Bobby is 21 and residing his greatest life whereas navigating maturity as a chef in Dallas and having fun with his 20s along with his former classmates Connie, Joseph, and Chane."

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The U.S. has seen speedy technological development and no scarcity of political and social turmoil over the previous decade and a half, and Hank's primed to be peeved by all of it. So says Choose, who spoke concerning the collection' return in the course of the ATX Tv Competition in Could 2025.

“Hank kinda preferred that ladies have been coated up and modest [in Saudi Arabia],” mentioned Choose (via Indiewire). “He comes again and there’s a motorcycle lane and a scooter lane. […] He’s all of the stuff that’s occurred within the final 15 years, and there’s an entire world of issues that may annoy Hank.”

Choose additionally spoke concerning the time leap, which he famous is what most him a few King of the Hill return. “The place it clicked for me was once we began speaking about growing old the characters,” he mentioned. “As a result of it’s such a grounded lifelike present, it simply felt proper that they’d be older.”

The showrunner additionally dropped just a few extra particulars about what Bobby's as much as in season 14, revealing that he's working as a chef at a "German sushi robata" restaurant that doesn't depend on propane, a lot to Hank's chagrin.

However that doesn't imply he's drifted too removed from his father. Adlon, who voices Bobby, added, "As an grownup, he’s change into extra centered and virtually just a little bit extra like his dad."

Is there a King of the Hill reboot trailer?

A short teaser highlighting Hank and Bobby's relationship (and Hank's encounters with craft beer tradition and ridesharing) dropped on Father's Day.

Hulu additionally launched the season's opening credit, which set King of the Hill's twangy theme over teases of what's to return, from masked-up bull periods and a mayoral run for Dale.

Who's within the King of the Hill reboot forged?

The unique King of the Hill voice actors reprising their roles are Choose (Hank Hill, Boomhauer), Najimy (Peggy Hill), Adlon (Bobby Hill), Stephen Root (Invoice Dauterive), and Lauren Tom (Connie Souphanousinphone, Minh Souphanousinphone).

Johnny Hardwick, who voiced Dale Gribble in the course of the unique run, returned to voice the character, however solely recorded six episodes earlier than his loss of life in August 2023, per Deadline. Toby Huss, who beforehand voiced Kahn, Hank's neighbor, stepped in as Dale for the remaining episodes. (The Every day Present's Ronny Chieng, in the meantime, took over the function of Kahn.)

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“That you simply guys trusted me to do his voice once more is absolutely humbling,” Huss mentioned in the course of the ATX panel. “I’m not attempting to repeat Johnny as a lot as I’m attempting to be Johnny and hope Dale comes out of that. … All I’m attempting to do is maintain onto that Daleness. We love our Johnny, and we’re so unhappy he’s not right here.”

Huss additionally elaborated on Dale's political pivot, as teased within the opening credit. “Dale now could be just a little bit left of proper, the place he was all the best way proper," he mentioned. "Now he’s been out-righted by the precise with the conspiracy idea stuff. We’ll see how Dale reacts to the brand new world."

In line with Variety, the collection additionally plans to acknowledge the passing of two different outstanding King of the Hill voice actors. Brittany Murphy, who voiced Luanne, died in 2009, and musician Tom Petty, who performed Luanne's associate, Fortunate, died in 2017.

“[We] discovered alternatives to allow them to be referenced within the present, I really feel, in a really respectful means," mentioned govt producer Saladin Patterson at ATX.

Jonathan Joss, the Native American actor who voiced John Redcorn for many of the present's run, died in June 2025. It's unclear if Joss will probably be featured posthumously within the new episodes.

Is there a King of the Hill reboot premiere date?

The King of the Hill reboot will premiere on Hulu on Aug. 4, 2025.

What number of episodes of the King of the Hill reboot will there be?

The brand new season of King of the Hill will include 10 episodes.

The place can I watch King of the Hill?

All 13 seasons of King of the Hill are streaming on Hulu.

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