family man 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 at the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel.
Showrunner and executive producer Rich Appel revealed the news onstage, alongside cast members Alex Borstein, Arif Zahir and Jennifer Tilly, and co-executive producer and supervising director Peter Shin.
The Halloween installment, titled happy hellsees Brian and Stewie find themselves trapped in hell, “paying for 24 seasons of bad behavior,” according to their official logline.
Culkin’s devil eventually becomes so upset with the couple that he ends up giving them the keys to the underworld.
Borstein joked during the panel that casting Culkin as Satan was tantamount to typecasting him given his Emmy-winning role as the ruthless Roman Roy in Succession, calling it “the role he was born to play,” while co-star Seth Green agreed that it was “not a stretch” and said the team was “very excited to have him on board.”
A second special, the Christmas-themed one. The Peter Clausewill follow shortly after.
His logline finds Peter competing against the rest of Quahog to be named the town’s official Santa Claus; when he inevitably loses, viewers are promised that he chooses to process the disappointment that the family man way more than the mature one.
The announcement continues a series of exclusive Hulu specials for the animated comedy, now heading into its 25th season, which returns to Fox in early 2027 before airing the next day on Hulu.
Culkin’s casting comes on the heels of a breakout streak for the actor, following his Succession finale and before his next role in the Hunger Games franchise.
The father of the family The news came alongside a broader slate of Hulu animation announcements at Comic-Con, including a new Christmas short for bob’s burgers and a trailer for FuturamaThe fourteenth season.
