On Friday, Front Office Sports reported a docuseries following the University of North Carolina football program under first-year head coach Bill Belichick will be airing on the Disney-owned streaming service Hulu, and that pre-production for the series is already underway as contracts are being finalized.
Earlier this year, there were reports that Belichick and his UNC program had reached a deal to be a part of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” universe, and were slated to be the stand-in for the second edition of their “offseason” spinoff.
With NFL teams unwilling to participate after a disastrous showing from the New York Giants in 2024, the Tar Heels and Belichick had reportedly stepped up to showcase the six-time Super Bowl champion attempting to build a winner at Chapel Hill.
But shortly after these reports began to surface, additional reporting revealed that this deal had fallen through due to “creative differences” involving Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson.
No word in this recent round of reporting as to what level of editorial control will be given to Belichick, Hudson or anyone from North Carolina for this Hulu series. The main producer of this project will reportedly be EverWonder Studio - a company whose primary investor is RedBird IMI, a joint venture led by former NBC and CNN president Jeff Zucker.
“If this ends up being a thing, what's your interest level?” WEEI’s Rich Keefe asked producer Billy Lanni on Friday’s Jones and Keefe.
“I'm gonna say that my interest level is going to be very similar to ‘The Clubhouse,’” said Lanni, referencing the Netflix docuseries released earlier this year following the 2024 Red Sox.
“I'll watch a couple episodes, see where it is, and then take it from there. Because I think I got through maybe three episodes of ‘The Clubhouse,’ and I'm like, ‘OK, I know how the season ends, this isn't really for me to see the rest of it.’ So I'm gonna approach it the same way. I'll give you a couple episodes, see what I learned, and then take it from there.”
“I wonder - is this gonna be one of those things [where] Hulu agrees to it, and they allow Jordon [Hudson] to have final sale and all this stuff?” said Keefe. “They're like, ‘Hey, we just want the content. We'll take it.’”
“I'd be curious how quick into it you realize that she has her fingerprints all over it,” said Lanni.
“Yeah, because you'll be able to tell,” said Keefe. “You know, it was like watching ‘The Dynasty,’ where you were a couple episodes in [thinking it’s] pretty good, and then it completely turned and you're like, ‘Oh, this isn’t right.’”
“Yeah, [Robert] Kraft was in the editing room on that one,” Lanni joked about the Apple TV+ series from last year.
This quick back-and-forth is a great reminder of just how many Boston sports related docuseries have been released in recent years.
In addition to “The Clubhouse” (2025) and “The Dynasty: New England Patriots” (2024), you also have Netflix’s “The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox” (2024), HBO’s “Celtics City” (2025), and ESPN+’s “Man in the Arena: Tom Brady” (2021). And I’m sure there’s others I’m missing - there’s so much content out there these days, it’s incredibly hard to keep up.
And while Belichick’s first season at North Carolina is not technically of the Boston sports genre, his foray into college football will be of immense interest to this region.