Jonah Hill will soon be stomping around Seth MacFarlane's territory. The comedian has signed on to co-write and contribute voice work to a new Fox animated series. The show will center on a rich seven-year-old kid who walks and talks like an adult and has trouble adapting to public school.

I'm looking forward to Hill's animated show, but I'm also a little wary. You'd think a show co-scripted by Hill would end up on a cable network. The young comedic actor has developed a reputation for his very blue comic rants and ad lib scenes in films like Knocked Up, Funny People and Superbad. It'll be interesting to see him hold his tongue for Fox and still deliver the laughs.

Hopefully, Hill's manchild character will turn out to be less like Family Guy's resident overexposed precocious kid, Stewie Griffith, and more like a young Max Fischer or a grade school Larry David.

Hill will share scripting duties with Yes Man and Hot Tub Time Machine scribes Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul.

[via Variety]