{"id":448457,"date":"2026-05-18T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/448457\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:10:10","slug":"chew-tv-series-is-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/448457\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chew&#8221; TV Series Is In Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chew-tv-series-is-in-development.jpg\" data-caption=\"Image Comics\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chew-tv-series-is-in-development.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"chew-tv-series-is-in-development\"\/><\/a>Image Comics<\/p>\n<p>A live-action TV series based on the acclaimed Image Comics title \u201cChew\u201d is reportedly in development at Blumhouse and Atomic Monster.<\/p>\n<p>The comic\u2019s co-creator Rob Guillory revealed the news in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rob.guillory\/posts\/pfbid0of7xinSAXzmHzM3mkqQKS93T3FwAAc1b8m7kqyezb9FK8pUWAT41kwQaUetqUK65l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> this weekend, indicating the deal is officially in place:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been kind of a secret, but the paperwork is done, so might as well start telling people. The Blumhouse\/Atomic Monster folks are fantastic, so we\u2019re excited to be working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Released from 2009-2016, the story focuses on Tony Chu, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agent who solves crimes by receiving psychic impressions from whatever he consumes as food \u2013 no matter what that might be.<\/p>\n<p>The news will be welcome for fans of the work, as multiple failed efforts to adapt the property were made between 2010 and 2017 including a half-hour Showtime comedy series, and an animated film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>That animated film reportedly got quite far with Steven Yeun, Felicia Day and David Tennant tapped to provide voices and reportedly completed their work on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/new-trailer-hbo-dcs-lanterns-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Trailer: HBO &amp; DC\u2019s \u201cLanterns\u201d Series<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/disney-developing-an-ella-enchanted-tv-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney+ Developing An \u201cElla Enchanted\u201d TV Series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Comics A live-action TV series based on the acclaimed Image Comics title \u201cChew\u201d is reportedly in development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[63746,146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-448457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}