Hulu orders animated medieval comedy starring Nicholas Hoult
Matt Groening’s Disenchantment on Netflix didn’t set the world on fire, but apparently there’s a real hunger out there for animated comedies with a medieval/fantasy setting, because Hulu has just ordered 10 episodes of Crossing Swords, an animated comedy about a peasant who lands a cushy job at the local castle and realizes that the fancy lords and ladies are really just assholes. The series is coming from some veterans of Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, specifically writers John Harvatine IV and Tom Root, with Robot Chicken creators Seth Green, Matt Senreich, and Eric Towner all acting as executive producers.