The inventive minds behind the King of the Hill reboot are excited to introduce followers to "some new individuals" that've joined the household.

The whip-smart animated sitcom chronicling the suburban exploits of the Hill household and their mates and neighbors within the fictional small city of Arlen, Tex., is returning after 15 lengthy years off the air. Throughout a Friday panel at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025, showrunner Saladin Okay. Patterson, unique sequence creators Mike Decide and Greg Daniels, and returning stars Pamela Adlon, Lauren Tom, Toby Huss, and Kathy Najimy mentioned their return to Arlen, together with a few of its model new residents.

"It was necessary within the present, the world has modified a bit bit since Hank and Peggy have been gone," Patterson mentioned. "Casting has modified a bit bit too since Hank and Peggy have been gone, so far as, actors match the characters that they're portraying."

The King of the Hill panel started with a screening of the complete second episode of the brand new season. Whereas some issues concerning the Hills, the alley gang, the residents of Rainey road, and the world round them are comfortingly acquainted, there are many contemporary new additions. And tweaks too — King of the Hill season 14 not solely introduces new characters, however recasts the voices behind a number of characters of coloration.

Probably the most thrilling new addition to the King of the Hill forged is the legendary Keith David, who performs a personality named Brian Robertson. Brian moved into the Hill home whereas Hank (Decide) and Peggy (Najimy) decamped for Saudi Arabia on an Aramco challenge in the course of the present's hiatus.

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The Hills haven’t solely moved again to Arlen, however into their previous home, and Brian's blissful to hitch Hank, Dale (Johnny Hardwick/Toby Huss), Boomhauer (Decide), and Invoice Dauterive (Stephen Root) in the course of the alley gang's alley hangs.

Although it was at all times savvily written alongside cultural strains and already boasted a forged of characters from a various array of backgrounds, King of the Hill was criticized throughout its unique run for casting a number of white actors to voice characters of coloration.

The reboot recasts a number of of those characters, with Kenneth Choi taking up for Huss because the voice of Laotian-American businessman Ted Wassanasong, Ki Hong Lee changing Adlon as his boastful son, Chane, Ronny Chieng relieving Huss of the function as Kohng Koy "Kahn" Souphanousinphone, the Hills' Laotian-American subsequent door neighbor, and Native American actor Tai Leclaire taking up the function of Bobby's buddy Joseph Gribble from Breckin Meyer, who himself took over for Brittany Murphy in 2000.

Patterson enthused that the reboot's inventive staff "received very fortunate in having the ability to have so many individuals who had been massive followers of the present, like Ronnie Chieng, who grew up watching the present. He was a fan of it and got here and joined us."

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"Such a pure Kahn," Daniels added. Patterson mentioned that the switch-ups have "been actually enjoyable. That's added to a number of the pleasure, the household feeling, simply inviting some new individuals to the household."

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