Warner Bros. Tv Group has signed a first-look cope with author, director and producer Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, Freaks and Geeks) and his producing associate Laura Fischer.
Underneath the multi-year settlement, Feig’s first on the Warner Bros. Discovery studio, he’ll develop and create authentic programming in all genres — live-action scripted, unscripted, animation — to be produced by his Feigco Leisure manufacturing firm for all platforms, together with WBD’s HBO and Max in addition to exterior streaming providers and the printed networks.
Whereas he has branched into options, most just lately directing and producing One other Easy Favor, starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Full of life, for Amazon, Feig’s roots are in tv the place his profession was launched by the 1999 cult favourite Freaks & Geaks, which he created.
Extra just lately, he collaborated with Lionshate Tv on a number of collection, together with Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Minx, Love Life and Welcome To Flatch as an extension to his movie deal on the indie studio.
“I’ve lengthy been a fan of Warner Bros. Tv Group due to their very various and far-reaching slate of high quality TV programming,” Feig stated. “So, it’s an absolute honor for Laura Fischer and me to be becoming a member of forces with [Creative Affairs President] Clancy [Collins White], [Head of Drama] Parul [Agrawal] and [Head of Comedy] Adrienne [Turner] to create new and progressive exhibits to entertain viewers in a time once we all desperately want some nice escapist fare. Lengthy dwell WBTVG!”
For his work on Freaks & Geeks, Feig was nominated for 2 Emmy Awards within the Excellent Writing for a Comedy Sequence class. He additionally was a co-executive producer and directed greater than a dozen episodes of the Emmy-winning The Workplace, successful a DGA Award, incomes an Emmy nomination for Excellent Directing for a Comedy Sequence, and sharing in an Emmy nomination for Excellent Comedy Sequence. His extra tv credit embody directing a number of episodes of Arrested Improvement, Nurse Jackie and Weeds.
In options, Feig additionally just lately directed and produced The Housemaid, starring Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar, which might be launched by Lionsgate in theaters on Christmas Day 2025.
Feig is repped by CAA and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern.
