The live-action adaptation of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series is officially in development at Peacock, according to a report from Variety. The project was first picked up by Universal International Studio back in 2025 without any sort of streaming service attached. The last we heard about the series was from an interview with Dinniman in March where he said the series was "still very much alive" despite no formal announcements about its status. The news that Peacock is officially developing the series is the first confirmation we've gotten that the project will actually be moving forward. The plot of the series is based on the massively popular LitRPG book series of the same name, which follows a guy named Carl and his ex-girlfriend's talking cat as Earth gets sucked into a twisted intergalactic gameshow. Here's the official logline for the show: “An alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show. Sounds bad, right? Now try doing it with bare feet and a stuck-up, self-centered, tiara-wearing talking cat as your partner. Welcome to Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, where the apocalypse
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Back in April 2025, Peacock revealed it had a Clueless TV series with Alicia Silverstone returning as Cher in development. Today, Variety reports that, for now, the project has been canceled. The report suggested that…
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Back in April 2025, Peacock revealed it had a Clueless TV series with Alicia Silverstone returning as Cher in development. Today, Variety reports that, for now, the project has been canceled. The report suggested that another network could…
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LitRPG is all the rage, but these books take a slightly different approach to the tabletop experience While Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl has arguably popularized LitRPGs —…
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