History[edit]

The District was started on June 24, 2014 by film director Ruben Fleischer and Rip Cord Productions employee David Bernard, and it will kick off with a two-year overall deal at Universal Television, allowing it to produce comedies and dramas.^[1]


The studio's first production, Superstore, was picked up to series by NBC on May 7, 2015.^[2] It eventually become a hit series.^[3] Its next project was The Bold Type, which was picked up by Freeform on January 10, 2017.^[4]