Dan Harmon’s NFT series has already been renewed for a third season
Krapopolis, Fox’s animated series from Dan Harmon about a family of gods, monsters and humans trying to keep an ancient city going, seemed like it might never see the light of day judging by the way Fox kept pushing back its release date. But according to a new report, Fox remains committed to the project and its accompanying NFT market — so much so that it’s already given Krapopolis an order for a new season.
Deadline reports that Fox has ordered a third season of Krapopolis ahead of the new scheduled premiere date sometime in the fall/winter television season, which bridges late 2023 and early 2024. Originally, a small preview of Krapopolis was supposed to air last November, but those plans were shelved and the series was pushed back to May this year. Now, however, Fox plans to premiere the show during the football season in hopes that people will be inclined to stay parked on the channel and try new programming.
Talking to Deadline at this year’s London TV Screenings exhibition, Michael Thorn, Fox’s head of scripted programming, was extremely confident Krapopolis‘ chances of success and said that internally the show has been something of a hit.
“The 2023-24 season is the perfect launch pad for this highly anticipated and very funny animated comedy, complete with several seasons of epic laughs for fans,” said Thorn. “The more we see from the production, the more thrilled we are with their creativity, story arcs, flawless execution, brilliant voice cast and ability to pump out episode after episode of astonishing events and outrageous, unexpected hilarity.”
Of course, this is exactly the kind of thing you’d expect an entertainment executive to say about one of their shows at an event where the network is hoping to land international distribution deals. Along with the show itself, Fox’s Blockchain Creative Labs will launch an NFT-based store where people can purchase digital goods and access exclusive content as well as a private Discord channel for fans.
Because Fox has retained Krapopolis on ice for so long and not making much of an effort to share much about it with the public, it’s hard to tell how much interest there is in the series or the idea of buying into an NFT ecosystem related to it. But if and when Krapopolis ends up airing, it’s going to be very interesting to see if the whole thing takes off like Fox hopes, or if it all withers on the vine.
