Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are working on a horror-comedy for TV

According to Variety, Pegg and Frost are behind Truth Seekers, a half-hour horror-comedy about a team of paranormal investigators. (This is not to be confused with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do In The Shadows spin-off, Wellington Paranormal.) Pegg says Truth Seekers, which is expected to have a monster-of-the-week angle, will “start as a very parochial idea, a very small business venture for these people, but it will expand as the series goes on to be something far more global.” He cites the popularity of Shaun Of The Dead, which “was a very parochial story set in North London and somehow it managed to get this global reach because everyone understands the language of zombie movies.”

As for why they decided to commit to a full TV series, Frost says “in terms of where the money is being made, and creatively, making episodic television is now no less nourishing than a two-hour movie.” And in other Pegg-Frost horror-comedy news, Slaughterhouse Rulez is already in post-production. Pegg tells Variety his upcoming film is “very satirical, very much about the U.K. selling itself off.”