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Yahoo
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘King of the Hill' Announces Guest Stars, Recasting for Upcoming Hulu Revival
Earlier this month, Hulu announced that the upcoming 'King of the Hill' revival will see Ronny Chieng take over the recurring guest role of Kahn Souphanousinphone from the show's original run. The decision meant that the Asian character, previously one of several parts voiced by Toby Huss, would be voiced by an Asian performer for the first time. Now, IndieWire can exclusively reveal five new guest stars for the show's long-awaited 14th season, several of which are similar recastings of old recurring characters with actors of color. In addition, Keith David and Anthony 'Citric' Campos have joined the series as new characters. More from IndieWire Join IndieWire and Disney for 'Paradise' Panel at Vidiots Foundation on August 12 'Wednesday' Is Renewed for Season 3 David will play new character Brian Robertson, who rented the house of main character Hank (series co-creator Mike Judge) in between the events of the show's original seasons and the revival, and integrates into Hank's friend group. Campos will play Emilio, a chef at the Dallas restaurant of Hank's grown son Bobby (Pamela Adlon). Returning characters Ted Wassanasong, Chane Wassanasong, and Joseph Gribble have all been recast with new performers. Ted, a Laotian businessman and the financial backer of Bobby's restaurant, will now be voiced by Kenneth Choi, after having previously been voiced by Huss in the show's original run. Chane, Ted's son and Bobby's former childhood bully and now business partner, will be voiced by Ki Hong Lee; previously, he was voiced by Adlon. Joseph Gribble, Bobby's half-Native best friend, will be voiced by comedian Tai Leclaire, after originally being voiced by Breckin Meyer. The creative team of 'King of the Hill' have previously been open about the possibilities of recasting for the revival. In 2023, while the season was still in development, co-creator Greg Daniels said in an interview with TVLine that he wasn't sure if Kahn would return for the revival, but, in the event that he did, 'We would most likely replace Toby's voice for Kahn. Like, if we were casting today, we wouldn't have cast him. But we cast it in 1997. 'Most animation casts play multiple roles, and Toby Huss initially played [Hank's father] Cotton Hill and was cast for that, and then Kahn came up later,' Daniels told TVLine. 'And most productions, especially back then, didn't have the budget to to hire a special performer for each voice. But it's different now.' In the years since 'King of the Hill' went off the air, the topic of casting racially appropriate voice actors for animated series has become a more contentious issue. 2017 documentary film 'The Problem with Apu' ignited conversation over Hank Azaria voicing the Indian 'Simpsons' character, which led to Azaria stepping down from the role. In 2020, a wave of voice acting recastings occurred after the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer: Jenny Slate stepped down from the role of Black middle-schooler Missy in 'Big Mouth' and was replaced by Ayo Edebiri, Kristen Bell was replaced by Emmy Raver-Lampman in voicing mixed-race teen Molly on the Apple TV+ series 'Central Park,' and 'Bojack Horseman' star Alison Brie publicly apologized for voicing a Vietnamese character in the series. The original 'King of the Hill' first premiered in 1997 on Fox, and ran for 13 years before its final season wrapped in 2010. Starring Judge as propane salesman Hank Hill, the series revolves around the everyday lives of Hank, his family, and their friends and neighbors in the small city of Arlen, Texas. Praised for its realistic and grounded humor, the show developed a cult following, and won two Emmys over the course of its run. The upcoming Season 14 follows Hank and his wife Peggy (Kathy Najimy) as they return and readjust to Arlen, after spending years living in Saudi Arabia selling propane to earn their retirement money. Their son Bobby, previously a child in the original series, is now an adult running a restaurant in Dallas with his childhood friends. Alongside Judge, Najimy, and Adlon, the revival also features Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, and Lauren Tom in the main cast. In addition, Huss will take over the role of Dale Gribble, previously voiced by the late Johnny Hardwick. Deceased voice actors Brittany Murphy and Tom Petty, who voiced the characters of Luanne and Lucky, will not be recast for the revival. In addition, Season 14 will feature the late Jonathan Joss, who was shot and killed this June, in his final appearance as the character John Redcorn. 'King of the Hill' comes from 20th Television Animation, and is executive produced by original co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels. Saladin Patterson serves as showrunner and executive produces, alongside 3 Arts' Michael Rotenberg and Howard Klein and Bandera Entertainment's Dustin Davis. All 10 episodes of the season premiere August 4. Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie Nicolas Winding Refn's Favorite Films: 37 Movies the Director Wants You to See
Daily Mail
19 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Arkansas county set to become America's next boomtown
A county in Arkansas that has been poor for decades could see a revival as President Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign steel create more incentives for domestic producers. Over the past decade US Steel and other manufacturers have poured billions of dollars of investment into Mississippi County, an area along the major river bearing the same name. The county is now set to produce 12 million tons of steel each year, just behind northwest Indiana, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. That is thanks to the three major steel mills in Osceola, the county seat. Two of those facilities, one owned by US Steel and the other by Hybar, were finished within the past three years. While the growth largely predates Trump's tariffs, the president's controversial policy may provide a further boon for the area. Despite this sign of hope, towns across the county are still full of rural decay and abandoned buildings, serving as a depressing reminder of the area's glory days in the 1950s. Back then, the area was known as an agricultural powerhouse for cotton and soybeans. Many steelworkers who work in Mississippi County still see it as too remote to live in and choose to commute long distances. They often travel in from neighboring states like Tennessee. Some who have homes out of state opt to live in RVs near their worksite when they are on one of their dayslong shifts. US Steel estimates that only 38 percent of its workforce in the county also reside there. The county still has a long way to go to regain the status it enjoyed 80 years ago when it was considered a middle-class haven. The median household income for the county is $53,428, and about one in four people live in poverty, according to 2023 census estimates. The medium household income across the US as a whole was $80,610. 'We used to have churches but now they're almost all empty,' Clif Chitwood, the county's economic-development officer, told The Wall Street Journal . 'There's been just a collapse of the whole social structure.' The county seeks to address this by taking advantage of the steel boom at the moment and offering home buyers money toward down payments on new or existing properties. The initiative, called 'Work Here. Live Here,' is available to anyone who chooses to live and work in the county for at least four years. The long-term viability of the program is not yet clear, but Chitwood said it has already started to bring in new residents. Mervin Jebaraj, an economist at the University of Arkansas, cast doubt on this plan, citing growing efforts from companies to automate away jobs. Steel manufacturers are certainly not immune to this growing workplace trend, Jebaraj told The Journal. Big companies like US Steel or General Motors were once able to launch hospitals and schools to help build a community around their factories. They now operate on much thinner margins, meaning large-scale efforts to create a functioning, thriving region have been replaced with small donations to local initiatives. The burden has largely fallen on local and county governments to revitalize their areas with the tax money they still have in their coffers. Part of the spend from officials goes toward luring the companies. Over a period of years over the past two decades the Great River Economic Development Foundation invested about $25 million to attract steel-related businesses. The taxpayer funds helped steel companies buy land and equipment. They also went toward training workers. This strategy paid off, with Big River Steel building its first plant, worth $1.4 billion, in 2014. US Steel took over Big River in 2021, then launched a separate $3 billion mill in 2022, the largest private investment into Arkansas in the state's history. Finally, in 2023, Hybar announced it would build a $700 million mill to make rebar, along with a solar farm to power its machinery. Mississippi County now boasts 7,000 and 8,000 steel or steel-related jobs, which is about a quarter of all the jobs in the county. But even with all the investment, the county still needed to get people to actually live there to fuel its tax base. The 'Work Here. Live Here' initiative was born for that exact purpose. The county worked with Farmers Bank & Trust, a local bank, to develop a financing plan. Under the framework newly constructed homes and existing homes would come with forgivable loans of 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Steel companies and other employers have been asked to contribute to the program. That money was later lent back to their own employees. So far, a dozen private employers in the county have invested, allowing about 160 families to buy homes in the county. US Steel said it has contributed $3.4 million to the program and has benefitted 148 employees, according to Daniel R Brown, chief operating officer of the company's operations in the county. Chitwood said about 250 new homes have been built in the past 14 months, with more than half of them bought under the 'Work Here. Live Here' initiative. 'It doesn't sound like many until you realize it's more than we had in 20 years,' he said. With help from the initiative Barrett Fisackerly bought a $240,000 house with his wife in Blytheville, Arkansas, he told The Journal. Fisackerly and his wife are both employed at Lexicon, a steel fabricator and construction company that is a short drive south from their new home.
Daily Mail
20 hours ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Sleepy Arkansas county set to become America's next boomtown as new steel plants and Trump tariffs fuel revival
A county in Arkansas that has been poor for decades could see a revival as President Donald Trump 's tariffs on foreign steel create more incentives for domestic producers. Over the past decade US Steel and other manufacturers have poured billions of dollars of investment into Mississippi County, an area along the major river bearing the same name. The county is now set to produce 12 million tons of steel each year, just behind northwest Indiana, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. That is thanks to the three major steel mills in Osceola, the county seat. Two of those facilities, one owned by US Steel and the other by Hybar, were finished within the past three years. While the growth largely predates Trump's tariffs, the president's controversial policy may provide a further boon for the area. Despite this sign of hope, towns across the county are still full of rural decay and abandoned buildings, serving as a depressing reminder of the area's glory days in the 1950s. Back then, the area was known as an agricultural powerhouse for cotton and soybeans. Many steelworkers who work in Mississippi County still see it as too remote to live in and choose to commute long distances. They often travel in from neighboring states like Tennessee. Some who have homes out of state opt to live in RVs near their worksite when they are on one of their dayslong shifts. US Steel estimates that only 38 percent of its workforce in the county also reside there. The county still has a long way to go to regain the status it enjoyed 80 years ago when it was considered a middle-class haven. The median household income for the county is $53,428, and about one in four people live in poverty, according to 2023 census estimates. The medium household income across the US as a whole was $80,610. 'We used to have churches but now they're almost all empty,' Clif Chitwood, the county's economic-development officer, told The Wall Street Journal. 'There's been just a collapse of the whole social structure.' The county seeks to address this by taking advantage of the steel boom at the moment and offering home buyers money toward down payments on new or existing properties. The initiative, called 'Work Here. Live Here,' is available to anyone who chooses to live and work in the county for at least four years. The long-term viability of the program is not yet clear, but Chitwood said it has already started to bring in new residents. Mervin Jebaraj, an economist at the University of Arkansas, cast doubt on this plan, citing growing efforts from companies to automate away jobs. Steel manufacturers are certainly not immune to this growing workplace trend, Jebaraj told The Journal. Big companies like US Steel or General Motors were once able to launch hospitals and schools to help build a community around their factories. They now operate on much thinner margins, meaning large-scale efforts to create a functioning, thriving region have been replaced with small donations to local initiatives. The burden has largely fallen on local and county governments to revitalize their areas with the tax money they still have in their coffers. Part of the spend from officials goes toward luring the companies. Over a period of years over the past two decades the Great River Economic Development Foundation invested about $25 million to attract steel-related businesses. The taxpayer funds helped steel companies buy land and equipment. They also went toward training workers. This strategy paid off, with Big River Steel building its first plant, worth $1.4 billion, in 2014. US Steel took over Big River in 2021, then launched a separate $3 billion mill in 2022, the largest private investment into Arkansas in the state's history. Finally, in 2023, Hybar announced it would build a $700 million mill to make rebar, along with a solar farm to power its machinery. Mississippi County now boasts 7,000 and 8,000 steel or steel-related jobs, which is about a quarter of all the jobs in the county. But even with all the investment, the county still needed to get people to actually live there to fuel its tax base. The 'Work Here. Live Here' initiative was born for that exact purpose. The county worked with Farmers Bank & Trust, a local bank, to develop a financing plan. Under the framework newly constructed homes and existing homes would come with forgivable loans of 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively. Steel companies and other employers have been asked to contribute to the program. That money was later lent back to their own employees. So far, a dozen private employers in the county have invested, allowing about 160 families to buy homes in the county. US Steel said it has contributed $3.4 million to the program and has benefitted 148 employees, according to Daniel R Brown, chief operating officer of the company's operations in the county. Chitwood said about 250 new homes have been built in the past 14 months, with more than half of them bought under the 'Work Here. Live Here' initiative. 'It doesn't sound like many until you realize it's more than we had in 20 years,' he said. With help from the initiative Barrett Fisackerly bought a $240,000 house with his wife in Blytheville, Arkansas, he told The Journal.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Current condition of closed Oasis pool revealed as TikTokers 'explore'
Video footage from inside the dilapidated Oasis Leisure Centre has revealed how the swimming pool looks now, amid new hope for the site's revival. The Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon has been closed since November 2020, after Better shut the site during the Covid-19 pandemic and then later handed the keys back to leaseholder Seven Capital, claiming it was impossible to make enough profit. On Saturday, July 19, a group of urban explorers entered the empty leisure centre and began live streaming to hundreds on TikTok from the account which boasts 13,000 followers. Now a new video, shared by on TikTok, has given an inside tour of how the Oasis currently looks. It comes just days after Swindon Borough Council approved plans to rebuild the Oasis without a sports hall. TikTok footage shows inside the Oasis (Image: (Image: The decision now gives the faintest of hopes that the centre might be open at some point in 2026, 50 years since it was opened. However, the council's planning committee then went on to refuse permission for 700 flats on the site, which could be crucial to the funding of the leisure centre refurbishment. Urban explorer footage of the site shows a drained pool with some dirt and debris scattered across the ground. When asked how they entered the site, a spokesperson for the TikTok account said: "It took hours and was very sketchy." Recommended reading: Urban explorers live stream from inside Oasis pool as 'police descend' Council leader labels misconduct allegations against him as 'nonsense' Potential reopening of beloved Oasis Leisure Centre plunged into doubt Old water slides 'Storm', 'Great white' and 'Sidewinder' have faded in colour and graffiti is visible on the walls, suggesting these urban explorers aren't the first to have entered the site since it closed. Urban explorers have confirmed entry to the site was 'sketchy' (Image: Nostalgic comments left under the video state: "This was my childhood" and "I can hear the sounds and everything." Another added: "My childhood and my children's is there. Shame it's closed." For those who have spent years campaigning for the reopening of the leisure centre, the 'behind-the-scenes tour' was not welcomed. Taking to X, a spokesperson for the Save Oasis Swindon campaign group said: "Someone's live inside the Oasis. Presumably Seven Capital aren't bothering with security at the moment?" Urban exploring, which is defined as the exploration of manmade structures that are typically abandoned or inaccessible to the public, is not in itself a crime. It only becomes a criminal offence if damage is caused to property or items are taken. A Wiltshire Police spokesperson, previously commenting on urban exploring, said: "Our advice to these people would be to stay out of these structures because if they injure themselves, it could be hours or even days before help arrives. "If something does happen, it also puts the lives of those people in the emergency services at risk when they have to rescue these people as well."
CBS News
2 days ago
- Business
- CBS News
Stockton mayor pitches national shipbuilding hub idea to Trump administration in D.C.
Stockton Mayor Christina Fugazi is in Washington, D.C. right now putting on a shipbuilding show for the Trump administration as she pushes for the city to be the next national hub for shipbuilding in the U.S. "So right there, the Capitol, I wish I could show you the White House because actually we're having meetings in the White House as well," Fugazi said. Mayor Fugazi spoke to CBS Sacramento from her hotel room in Washington, D.C., where she is traveling to tout her city to the Trump administration. "We're ready to go," Fugazi said. "Some people have said this could take years, but we're talking about a year." "The west complex is where all the shipbuilding happened back in World War II," Port of Stockton Director Kirk DeJesus said. DeJesus drove CBS Sacramento around the Stockton port in March, showing the possible new prime real estate for a U.S. maritime revival. Some of the old Navy buildings are still standing. The port also sits on 4,000 acres of land. "We have the acreage, we have the docks, we have access to the freeways, to rail, I mean, we're just a prime location," Fugazi said. "How do you think the relationship between the President and the Governor could impact this decision?" CBS Sacramento's Steve Large asked. "I think it has the potential to impact the decision," Fugazi said. "We can't rule out the politics. We definitely need to make sure that we are selling them on the location, that we have the workforce, that we have the space available." San Joaquin County voted for President Trump in the November election. Mr. Trump issued an executive order in April calling for a "maritime action plan" to be in place by the end of the year, with the goal of relaunching the U.S. shipbuilding industry. He cited data showing the U.S. currently builds only 1% of the world's ships. Mayor Fugazi's message to the president is that Stockton is ready to build ships now at full steam ahead. "So if we had an opportunity for a face-to-face, man, I'm bringing my 'A game,' and they're going to want to come out to Stockton, they're gonna want to visit our area because I'm going to sell it." On the mayor's itinerary in Washington, D.C., she is meeting with the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Security Council, the Navy, and a U.S. shipbuilder. She said the next step would be the Trump administration taking a tour of the Port of Stockton so they could see the shipbuilding possibilities themselves.
