Oct 12, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
Campers and Counselors gather around the campfire for Volume 6! Jones gets you dialed-in to EVERYTHING you need to know re: the release of Season 1 of 'Crystal Lake' on Peacock!
So for better or worse, like we often do on this show, we are going to read the IMDb premise for Crystal Lake.
And this time, I'm going to say it is for worse.
Here we go.
Prequel series to Friday the 13th follows a doomed small town where camp counselors come to die.
I have not seen the show, but that does seem like an incredibly poorly written and bare bones summation of what this show is going to be.
The credited creator of this show is Brad Kane, who recently worked on Welcome to Derry, other shows like Tokyo Vice and Warrior.
Now, Brad is replacing Brian Fuller, who very publicly was fired from the project a few years ago.
But Brian was hired on this project over four years ago, and he was coming off a very successful run on a television show called Hannibal, which you might imagine seemed like a great blueprint for Crystal Lake.
Existing in a larger horror IP, but telling a more specific story.
Really well done, great performances, incredibly unique.
I totally understand the instinct to hire this guy to take over the show.
So four years ago, when Brian Fuller was given the reins to take on this show, this is a quote he gave about his take on the project.
We can use everything.
We can go to hell, we can go to space.
That's not to say we will do those things.
Although if we do do 10 seasons, I will be lobbying hard to go to space.
A24 and Mark Toberoff, who is Victor Miller's lawyer, have beautifully and excruciatingly assembled all of the Friday the 13th rights.
As a streaming series, we have the rights to do everything underneath the Friday the 13th umbrella.
The movie rights are a completely different thing.
They are tied up in new line and are super, super messy and probably won't be untangled anytime soon, but as far as us chickens in the television industry, uh, roost.
We have access to anything and everything that Friday the 13th has done up until this point.
They cited creative differences, budget disputes, and production concerns.
But I wasn't really super dialed in to some of this pre-production stuff.
I had never read this quote.
So for better or worse, like we often do on this show, we are going to read the IMDb premise for Crystal Lake.
And this time, I'm going to say it is for worse.
Here we go.
Prequel series to Friday the 13th follows a doomed small town where camp counselors come to die.
I have not seen the show, but that does seem like an incredibly poorly written and bare bones summation of what this show is going to be.
The credited creator of this show is Brad Kane, who recently worked on Welcome to Derry, other shows like Tokyo Vice and Warrior.
Now, Brad is replacing Brian Fuller, who very publicly was fired from the project a few years ago.
But Brian was hired on this project over four years ago, and he was coming off a very successful run on a television show called Hannibal, which you might imagine seemed like a great blueprint for Crystal Lake.
Existing in a larger horror IP, but telling a more specific story.
Really well done, great performances, incredibly unique.
I totally understand the instinct to hire this guy to take over the show.
So four years ago, when Brian Fuller was given the reins to take on this show, this is a quote he gave about his take on the project.
We can use everything.
We can go to hell, we can go to space.
That's not to say we will do those things.
Although if we do do 10 seasons, I will be lobbying hard to go to space.
A24 and Mark Toberoff, who is Victor Miller's lawyer, have beautifully and excruciatingly assembled all of the Friday the 13th rights.
As a streaming series, we have the rights to do everything underneath the Friday the 13th umbrella.
The movie rights are a completely different thing.
They are tied up in new line and are super, super messy and probably won't be untangled anytime soon, but as far as us chickens in the television industry, uh, roost.
We have access to anything and everything that Friday the 13th has done up until this point.
They cited creative differences, budget disputes, and production concerns.
But I wasn't really super dialed in to some of this pre-production stuff.
I had never read this quote.
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