Fox Leisure Studios has inked a brand new first-look take care of Invoice Burr’s North Hill Productions.
Underneath the partnership, Burr and his producing accomplice Mike Bertolina will function government producers on scripted and unscripted tv collection, with a specific emphasis on comedy.
“Invoice Burr is likely one of the boldest, most unique voices in comedy, and teaming up with him and Mike Bertolina at North Hill is precisely the type of transfer that defines our studio,” Fox Leisure scripted head Hannah Pillemer mentioned in an announcement. “Fox has at all times been dwelling for comedy that swings massive, and at FES, we’re doubling down, championing creators with robust factors of view who don’t play it protected. When our brand hits the display, regardless of the platform, we would like audiences to instinctively suppose: daring, recent and undeniably Fox.”
Based in 2024 by Burr and Bertolina, North Hill Productions’ first mission was the previous’s Emmy-nominated, one-hour Hulu stand-up particular “Invoice Burr: Drop Lifeless Years.” It is usually growing a half-hour comedy for Fox primarily based on the lifetime of the comic, Earthquake, and has a improvement slate that spans a number of genres and media, together with function movies, scripted and unscripted codecs, animation and documentaries.
Burr and Bertolina even have produced collectively at one other manufacturing firm, All Issues Comedy, which was co-founded by Burr and which Bertolina led as president and CEO. Initiatives they’ve produced there embody the function movies “Previous Dads” and the Esther Povitsky-led “Drugstrone June,” the function documentary “Patrice O’Neal: Killing is Straightforward,” the Emmy-nominated dark-comedy sketch present “Immoral Compass” on Roku, in addition to many standup specials for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Comedy Central.
Burr and Bertolina are repped by 3 Arts Leisure, WME and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.
Fox Leisure Studios’ unscripted credit embody “The Masked Singer,” “I Can See Your Voice,” and “Identify That Tune,” whereas scripted credit embody the comedies “Animal Management,” “Going Dutch” and “Greatest Drugs” and dramas “The Devoted,” “The Approach Residence” and “The Hen Sisters.”
The division additionally oversees Bento Field Leisure, which is behind animated comedies “Krapopolis,” “Grimsburg,” “Hazbin Resort” and “Common Fundamental Guys”; TMZ; impartial movie label Tideline Leisure; and the culinary and life-style content material enterprise Studio Ramsay World in partnership with chef Gordon Ramsay, whose credit embody “Subsequent Stage Chef,” “Kitchen Nightmares” and “Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service,” Disney+’s “Chew, No Style Like Residence,” Apple’s upcoming “Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars” and a brand new untitled Gordon Ramsay documentary collection on Netflix in early 2026.
Along with Burr and Bertolina’s North Hill Productions, Fox Leisure Studios inked a first-look deal with Jamie Foxx’s Foxxhole Productions earlier this 12 months.
