Fox 21 lands 'Hung' co-designers

Fox 21 has signed a couple-year overall deal with Dmitry Lipkin and Collette Burson. The husband-and-wife duo that created the Cinemax series "Hung" are seguing utilizing their pact while using pay cabler, which brought to November, with a pod deal with the cable-centric arm of last century Fox TV, where they'll write and executive produce series and supervise other authors too. Pact is probably the to start a string of deals being designed this year by Fox 21 leader Bert Salke, who want to increase an array of in-house creatives in a position to penetrating the cluttered TV marketplace. "If you have a look at shows like (FX's) 'The Riches' and 'Hung,' these males go outdoors el born area with interesting figures and ideas,In . mentioned Salke. "Which describes why we feel those are the not too distant future for cable art galleries like us." Fox 21 has acquired cable hits in recent several days like Showtime's highly suggested "Homeland," within the studio-signed group of Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, and Kurt Sutter, who recently reupped on the potency of Foreign exchange hit "Sons of Anarchy." Lately, Salke also signed Andre Nemec and Josh Applebaum, the scribes behind "Jason Bourne 4," which he indicated the next admittance to his growing stable--he must sign around 6-7 pod deals this year--may be locked reduced a couple of days. Burson is represented by UTA and attorney Tara Kole at Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown. Lipkin is represented by CAA and attorney Ken Richman at Hansen, Jacobson. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com