{
  "id": 2411172,
  "title": "Chris Yost & Eric Heisserer Set As Showrunners For Peacock Drama Series ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/chris-yost-eric-heisserer-set-as-showrunners-for-peacock-drama-series",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T17:29:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/08/chris-yost-eric-heisserer-showrunners-dungeon-crawler-carl-1237047555/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dungeon Crawler Carl has found its showrunners. The Peacock drama series, which is an adaptation of Matt Dinniman’s popular science fantasy LitRPG (role-playing game) books, was handed a straight-to-series order in June. Chris Yost and Eric Heisserer have been named co-showrunners. Yost was previously named as writer of the project, which comes from Seth MacFarlane’s […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TheWrap",
        "title": "‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ Peacock Series Recruits Eric Heisserer as Co-Showrunner With Chris Yost",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/dungeon-crawler-carl-peacock-series-recruits-eric-heisserer-as-co",
        "published": "2026-08-21T17:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ TV Series Sets Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ Creator Eric Heisserer as Co-Showrunner",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/dungeon-crawler-carl-tv-series-sets-netflixs-shadow-and-bone-creator",
        "published": "2026-08-21T17:10:35.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}