\n\tFox is dramatically upscaling its creator lineup, adding seven new creators \u2014 and a host of new shows \u2014\u00a0to the company\u2019s creator-focused division in a bid to create \u201clong-lasting, durable\u201d intellectual property,\u00a0the head of the division told Variety.<\/p>\n
\n\tFox Creator Studios<\/a> has signed deals with Canadian influencer Josh Richards<\/a>, racing influencer Emelia Hartford, the trio behind Speeed Co, food creators Sorted Food and MyHealthyDish, Christina Richardson\u2019s microseries franchise and Alice Ma\u2019s Mad Realities company. The group, whose combined social footprint spans 65 million followers, joins the division\u2019s roster of stalwarts such as chef Gordon Ramsay and comedian Tom Segura.<\/p>\n \n\tFox Creator Studios head Billy Parks told Variety that the new batch of partners represents \u201cdifferent types of creators who are trying different things for their audiences.\u201d He selected the latest crop of creators after various conversations with Fox, agents and the creators themselves.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe want to show up for different sizes of creators, different types of content and different formats,\u201d\u00a0Parks said in a phone interview from Austin, where he was visiting the set of one of Segura\u2019s projects. \u201cThose are all important to us, and so we thought a good swath of all those things would be good, and they\u2019re just stuff we\u2019re really excited to make, and stuff more importantly that they\u2019re really excited to make.\u201d<\/p>\n