Destroy All Humans! TV show

By Ellie Gibson Published 26 October, 2005

Coming to US screens soon.

Fox Broadcasting Co. has secured the rights to produce a TV show based on hit THQ title, Destroy All Humans!

That's according to the Hollywood Reporter, which also reveals that the show will take the form of a 30 minute long CGI animated comedy. It's being developed by Jim Dauterive, who was previously a writer and co-executive producer on top animated series King of the Hill.

It'll be the first time a videogame has been used as the source material for a primetime network series, and it'll make a nice change from all the cinematic adaptations we've been hearing about of late. Best of all, there's very little chance that Uwe Boll will get the opportunity to muck the whole thing up.

Expect a familiar 1950s-inspired theme and lots of laughs, if the TV show is even half as funny as the videogame. And since there's still clearly life left in the DAH license, we wouldn't be too surprised if THQ announced a sequel in the near future, either.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Razz #1 6 years ago

    w00t! BRING BACK INVADER ZIM!!!!!! ;_;

  • Blerk #2 6 years ago

    I quite liked DaH. Yes, you read that right. Quite liked.

  • w00t #3 6 years ago

    Salted.... NUTS!

    Gir was the coolest robot helper EVAR. Except maybe R2-D2. But it's close...

  • L42yB #4 6 years ago

    There is a time for thinking and there is a time for action... AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES!!!

  • Fatfish #5 6 years ago

    Why does Invader Zim ring a distant bell with me? Anyone got a linky to remind me please?

  • symmetry #6 6 years ago

    Yes but will they actually destroy all humans?

  • Razz #7 6 years ago

    Fatfish : Invader Zim

  • Fatfish #8 6 years ago

    Scratch that - just found something on the web about it. Not what I thought it was.

    Thanks Razz. I'll check it out properly tonight when I get home - no sound on my works PC!!
    Edited by 1 at 26/10/05 @ 13:22

  • Sko #9 6 years ago

    "It'll be the first time a videogame has been used as the source material for a primetime network series,"

    Didn't Earthworm Jim have some sort of cartoon spin-off?

  • Razz #10 6 years ago

    And Mario, and Zelda, and sonic

  • Razz #11 6 years ago

    Digimon, pokemon... etc

  • Razz #12 6 years ago

    A lot of the news in eurogamer is usually late and sometime slighty inaccurate. Always take em with a pinch of salt mate. :/
    Edited by 1 at 26/10/05 @ 13:31

  • ralphwolfenstein #13 6 years ago

    "They found earth women to be young and... nubile... Well, soldiers on tour, needing to let of steam, one thing lead to another... the fact is, all humans carry a strand of Furon DNA"

    "I love a man in uniform... wait.... I AM a man in uniform!"

  • Xerx3s #14 6 years ago

    Zim 4 tha Wim? ^_^

  • Freek #15 6 years ago

    They're still covered by the Prime time part of the statement, every other spin off was just a saterday morning kids show.

  • RabidMonkey #16 6 years ago

    YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The cut-scenes were certainly the best part of the game, so I look forward to this.
    Also good call on Invader Zim, definitely one of the most underrated cartoons ever...well it's up there, along with Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life.

    Hey, anyone remember that - GENIUS!

  • kangarootoo #17 6 years ago

    "A lot of the news in eurogamer is usually late and sometime slighty inaccurate"

    "A lot", "usually", "sometime slightly".

    So roughly translated into real english you are saying the news is very rarely late or inaccurate? I agree.

    p.s. If I have missed some sarcasm here I will train hard until I can kick my own ass.

  • Talha #18 6 years ago

    Hey world, let off on Uwi Boll, let the guy breath! CVG's headline on Uwi's decision to make movie based on Postal: "Crappy director dramatizes even crappier game" or something like that. C'mon, crap movies are half the fun!!! House of the Dead is the funniest movie of all time.

  • Noogle #19 6 years ago

    Is this goingto be a kids cartoon or a prime time title? Other articles report it in the same vein as Tripping the Rift, so this is a first since a game has never been an animated feature during Network Prime Time, only kids prime time.

    I don't care about Uwe Boll. I've never had to pay to see his movies and I shall keep doing so!