• Hollywood Reporter, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:15 AM

Fox is turning to dysfunctional animated families next season, developing at least three projects. Among them are an animated version of its 2003 live-action comedy "The Pitts" by Simpson vet Mike Scully and "Relative Insanity," to be produced by Jack Black. Also on tap is "Mothballs," from the creators of "Drawn Together." The net has ordered up two scripts for "Pitts," and it could be sent straight to series, skipping the usual months-long process. The live-action version, about the unluckiest family in the world, lasted just four weeks before being canceled by Fox. But Scully kept pitching it nonetheless.

"It will be a new show to America, because so few people saw it outside of our immediate family," says Scully. "It's [a] show we've always been very fond of." He notes that "it was so close to a cartoon. . .we were talking how much easier it would be to execute it if it were animated." And he hopes the format change will give hope to other dead or dying shows: "Maybe it will set a precedent for canceled live-action series," he says. "Maybe next year 'Studio 60' will come back as a cartoon."

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