North Carolina TV station working on its own Bill Belichick documentary after Hulu scraps $250,000 project

For those truly starving for on-the-scene footage of Bill Belichick’s highly polarizing — and trending toward disastrous — first season in Chapel Hill, you are in luck.WRAL News in North Carolina is planning to release a documentary about the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach’s first season at the collegiate level, while Hulu recently scrapped a season-long documentary that would have paid the university $250,000, per wralsportsfan.com.While Belichick’s “Do your job” mantra reigned supreme in New England, his brief time leading the Tar Heels has seemingly been focused on anything but the actual football.Beyond all the drama surrounding 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson, there’s been constant chatter about behind-the-scenes coverage.There had been rumblings about UNC being featured on HBO’s offseason version of “Hard Knocks,” but that did not come to fruition.Belichick, 73, later told his team it would be featured in a Hulu and EverWonder documentary that would stream this fall, as seen in an Instagram post in August.But that too would be scrapped.The contract between EverWonder Studio and the school said the docuseries was “contingent upon Coach Belichick’s participation,” wralsportsfan.com reported.Both parties reportedly could terminate the deal if Belichick did not provide the necessary permissions to EverWonder, if he pulled back his permission or if he opted not to participate.The documentary planned to film from Aug.11 through Oct.
31, per wralsportsfan.com.“Before the start of the 2025 NCAA football season, UNC and EverWonder Studio, LLC entered into an agreement allowing EverWonder access to film and produce a documentary about the UNC Football program with the intent it would be a multi-episode series streaming on Hulu,” a university spokesperson told wralsportsfan.com.“UNC and EverWonder have paused production but remain in contact with the possibility of continuing in the future.”Now, it seems that the only fo...