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Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched “The Bob’s Burgers Movie.”

For over 10 years, Loren Bouchard has been telling the stories of the Belcher clan on a weekly basis. Created by Bouchard, “Bob’s Burgers” premiered in 2011 as an animated sitcom about married couple Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda Belcher (John Roberts) and their three kids — Tina (Dan Mintz), Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Louise (Kristen Schaal) — as they operate their small family owned burger shop and navigate the mundane absurdity of everyday life.

Initial reviews of the show when it premiered were mixed; for Variety, Brian Lowry wrote that it “too often falls on the wrong side of the ‘entertaining’/’annoying’ divide.” But over the course of the first and second season, the show began revealing both its characters’ more idiosyncratic quirks — whether it’s Linda’s boundless optimism or Tina’s obsession with butts — and a...

Animation producer Nora Smith has signed a multiyear overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television, Variety has learned.

Under the deal, she will serve as co-showrunner and executive producer of “Bob’s Burgers” alongside creator and showrunner Loren Bouchard. Smith’s deal is the fourth that Twentieth TV has announced since the studio joined the Walt Disney Company last week, after “Pretty Little Liars” producer I. Marlene King,“Daredevil” creator Drew Goddard, and “Fresh Off the Boat” executive producers Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar all inked deals.

“Nora is an amazing talent and we are so excited to build upon our relationship with her,” said Twentieth TV Animation Evp Marci Proietto. “She’s extremely collaborative and loved by anyone who gets to work with her. I’ve watched her grow from a staff writer in season 1 of ‘Bob’s’ into an incredible creative force. But most of all, I’m...

Bob’s Burgers executive producer Nora Smith is expanding her relationship with 20th Century Fox TV, signing a multi-year overall deal with the studio behind the hit Fox animated comedy series.

Under the pact, she will continue on Bob’s Burgers where she has been since Day 1, starting as a staff writer in the first season and rising through the ranks to an executive producer. She will now serve as co-showrunner alongside creator/executive producer/showrunner Loren Bouchard. Smith, a veteran animation producer, also will serve as an executive producer on Bouchard’s new Apple animated series Central Park, which she co-created with Bouchard and Josh Gad.

Smith also co-wrote the upcoming Bob’s Burgers feature film with Bouchard and previously worked on his series Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil.

“Nora is an amazing talent and we are so excited to build upon our relationship with her,” said Marci Proietto,...

In 1999, Lauren Bouchard and Brandon Smalls teamed to create Home Movies, a charming cartoon about an eight-year-old would-be auteur. It was canceled after a season on Upn before being rescued by Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Bouchard’s next show, Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil was canceled by Adult Swim after a single season, but he’s back with Bob’s Burger’s as part of Fox’s Animation Domination....