family guy will return with its annual Halloween and holiday specials exclusively on Hulu this year, with Academy Award winner Kieran Culkin joining the cast to voice the Devil in a first announcement made during the San Diego Comic-Con panel.
Showrunner and executive producer Rich Appel revealed the news on stage, alongside actors Alex Borstein, Arif Zahir and Jennifer Tilly, and co-executive producer and supervising director Peter Shin.
The Halloween section, entitled happy hellsees Brian and Stewie find themselves trapped in Hell, “paying for 24 seasons of bad behavior”, according to its official diary.
Culkin’s Devil ends up so annoyed with the couple that he ends up handing them the keys to the underworld.
Borstein joked during the panel that casting Culkin as Satan was tantamount to casting given his Emmy-winning turn as the ruthless Roman Roy in Succession, calling it “the role he was born to play”, while his co-star Seth Green acknowledged it was “not a stretch” and said the team was “very excited to have him on board”.
A second special, on the theme of holidays The Peter Clausewill follow shortly after.
Its logline shows Peter competing against the rest of Quahog to be named the town’s official Santa; when he inevitably loses, viewers are promised that he chooses to deal with the disappointment of family guy way rather than the mature one.
The announcement continues a series of exclusive Hulu specials for the animated sitcom, now entering its 25th season, which returns to Fox in early 2027 before premiering the following day on Hulu.
Culkin’s casting follows a difficult period for the actor, following his Succession finale and before his next role in the hunger games franchise.
The family guy the news arrived alongside a broader slate of Hulu animated announcements at Comic-Con, including a new holiday short for Bob’s Burgers and a trailer for FuturamaThis is the 14th season.
