Hit-Monkey Archives

About eight months after most folks wrote off the adult animated series as being "dead show walking," turns out the joke's on us because Josh Gordon & Will Speck's Jason Sudeikis-starring Hit-Monkey will be returning for a second season The series focuses on a Japanese snow monkey whose clan meets Bryce (Sudeikis), a stranded hitman, and nurses[...]

We asked in November 2021 if fans of Josh Gordon & Will Speck's Hit-Monkey and Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt's Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. should start worrying about the series not returning Earlier today, we got an answer with Variety reporting that "M.O.D.O.K." has been canceled after one season and that Hit-Monkey "is not expected to return." At the[...]

So let's time travel back in time to December 2020 so we can see how all of this connects to Hit-Monkey and Marvel's M.O.D.O.K., shall we? That's when Hulu's Tom Austen & Sydney Lemmon-starring Helstrom was canceled after one season, marking the final live-action project that ex-Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb had under the Kevin Feige-led[...]

Before we get to a look behind the scenes of Hulu's Hit-Monkey, it might be time to address the 800-lb gorilla assassin in the corner of the room because it's something we've been covering for a while now First, a little history. In December 2020, an important milestone happened in the world of Marvel Studios[...]

Our line-up of news & opinion topics for today include a Dave Chappelle-Netflix update, ABC's LA Law, STARZ's The Continental/Mel Gibson, Amazon's Good Omens 2, The CW's Smallville, HBO's The Last of Us, Hulu's Hit-Monkey, Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring, and more! And then we wrap things up with our review of Paramount+'s[...]

Based on the Marvel Comics character, Hulu series creators & showrunners Josh Gordon & Will Speck's Hit-Monkey focuses on a Japanese snow monkey whose clan meets Bryce (Jason Sudeikis), a stranded hitman, and nurses him back to health But after Bryce passes, it's up to the simian (guided by Bryce's ghost) to follow in Bryce's[...]

Today's line-up of news and opinions includes Amazon's The Wheel of Time does a recast, Ric Flair responding to Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring allegations, AEW tag-teams with the Owen Hart Foundation, Netflix's The Queen's Gambit makes beautiful music, The CW's DC's Stargirl deals with guilt & remorse, The CW's Batwoman goes mad[...]

Last week, we learned that Marvel Studios and Hulu's Hit-Monkey would be hitting the streaming service on November 17th Now we're learning a lot more about series creators & showrunners Josh Gordon & Will Speck's upcoming animated series. Based on the Marvel Comics character, the series focuses on a Japanese snow monkey whose clan meets Bryce,[...]

Today's line-up of news and opinions includes a double dose of Amazon's The Boys, the fallout for Ric Flair & Tommy Dreamer from Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring, a poster for The CW's Nancy Drew Season 3, David Tennant going Around the World in 80 Days, Hulu's Hit-Monkey drops some intel, The CW's[...]

and Hit-Monkey in play, with the Patton Oswalt-starring former having finally hit streaming screens earlier this year Well received by critics and viewers alike, the series is awaiting news of a possible second season. Image: Dazzler, Tigra, Hit-Monkey, and M.O.D.O.K (Hulu) So what about Hit-Monkey? Well, some good news courtesy of EW and their annual fall preview[...]

Reports are that Marvel has terminated the overall deals with showrunners Steve Lightfoot (The Punisher) and Paul Zbyszewski (Helstrom).

That's a problem when you have someone like Jeph Loeb (Marvel Television's resident mastermind: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, Jessica Jones, etc.) – especially with a new slate of animated series set up at Hulu (Howard the Duck, M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, Tigra & Dazzler Show, and The Offenders). Apparently, that problem was solved in October – with[...]

Over the course of the past several months, Hulu and Marvel Studios have reaffirmed their commitment to Marvel's Helstrom with a number of major casting announcements – names that carry some serious "geek street cred" with them (see below) – and now the streaming service is offering updates on not only that series but also[...]

That was seen as a potential problem for someone like Jeph Loeb, Marvel Television's resident mastermind (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, Jessica Jones) – especially with a new slate of animated series set up at Hulu (Howard the Duck, M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, Tigra & Dazzler Show, and The Offenders) – but more on that from Kevin[...]

Production on M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, and Howard the Duck remains unchanged for now – as does plans for the four-show crossover The Offenders. We won't start pretending there weren't rumblings of this happening once it was announced Kevin Feige was taking on the role of chief creative officer for all things Marvel Entertainment[...]

This is one of those magical stories we never thought we'd be writing, but it appears that Kevin Smith is developing a tv series for Hulu based on Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck. During Hulu's TCA (Television Critics Association) Winter Press Tour panel today, it was discovered by Variety that a slew of four Marvel-based series[...]