Taking its cue from Kong: Skull island, there’s going to be a new CG animated series from Netflix titled Skull Island, which sounds like it’s more or less going to take part of the premise of the 2017 movie Kong: Skull Island and stay locked on it: a group of characters have been shipwrecked on that mysterious island and have to try and survive various creatures, among them dinosaurs and, of course, the Kong who would be king. Not sure yet whether this is going to be geared for kids, adults or somewhere in between. This is far from the first time that Kong has appeared on television in animated form:
King Kong Show (1966-69)
Produced in Japan, this show ran on ABC Saturday mornings for 26 episodes. Basically, Kong decides to befriend a family and ends up going on their wild adventures involving mad scientists, robots, and other monsters. Even when it originally aired you'd likely sit there and say, "Hey, this ain't King Kong!"
Kong: The Animated Series (2000)
Wikipedia describes the series this way: “‘Kong’ is cloned by a scientist named Dr. Lorna Jenkins who also used the DNA of her grandson Jason to bring it to life. Jason uses the Cyber-Link to combine with Kong in order to fight evil, allowing Kong to draw on Jason’s knowledge of hand-to-hand combat.” Wow! That’s another show making quite the left turn from the film that inspired it.
Kong: King of the Apes (2016)
From Netflix comes this description: “Set in 2050, Kong becomes a wanted fugitive after wreaking havoc at Alcatraz Island’s Natural History and Marine Preserve. What most humans on the hunt for the formidable animal do not realize, though, is that Kong was framed by an evil genius who plans to terrorize the world with an army of enormous robotic dinosaurs. As the only beast strong enough to save humanity from the mechanical dinos, Kong must rely on the help of three kids who know the truth about him.” Sounds more like a toy line than a TV series, but whatever.