Bill Burr Signs First-Look Deal With Fox Entertainment via His North Hill Productions

Bill Burr has signed a first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios via his banner North Hill Productions.

Through the partnership, Burr and his producing partner, North Hill co-founder Mike Bertolina, will serve as executive producers and content originators for scripted and unscripted television. Fox will get first dibs on the projects.

Founded in 2024, North Hill’s first project is Burr’s 2025 Hulu comedy special “Drop Dead Years,” for which Burr was nominated for two Emmy Awards. The production company is also developing a half-hour comedy for Fox based on the life of comedian Earthquake.

The partnership marks a continued investment in comedy programming from Fox Entertainment. In March, the network signed a multi-year deal with Jamie Foxx for the first-look rights to scripted television material from Foxx’s Foxxhole Productions banner, and exclusive rights to his projects and producing services in the unscripted space.

“Bill Burr is one of the boldest, most original voices in comedy, and teaming up with him and Mike Bertolina at North Hill is exactly the kind of move that defines our studio,” stated Hannah Pillemer, head of scripted for Fox Entertainment Studios. “Fox has always been home for comedy that swings big, and at FES, we’re doubling down, championing creators with strong points of view who don’t play it safe. When our logo hits the screen, whatever the platform, we want audiences to instinctively think: daring, fresh and undeniably Fox.”

Burr and Bertolina are repped by 3 Arts Entertainment, WME and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.