Hulu
| Hulu | |
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| Founded | March 2007 |
| President | Jason Kilar |
| Company | 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal, The Walt Disney Company |
| Notable Series | Battleground
A Day in the Life The Morning After The Mindy Project The Path |
Hulu is an online TV service, a joint-venture of NBC Universal, 21st Century Fox, and The Walt Disney Company, offering streaming video of television shows and movies to the US public. The vast majority of its programming comes from US broadcast and cable networks, although original programming, under the Hulu Presents title, is growing.
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History
The first program to debut on Hulu was The Morning After, a 5-minutes news series, covering pop-culture phenomena, which premiered on January 17, 2011. It was later followed by dramatic series such as The Confession starring Keifer Sutherland and Paul the Male Matchmaker starring Paul Bartholomew.
On August 17, 2011 the first long-form Hulu original program premiered: Morgan Spurlock's docu-series A Day in the Life. It returned for season 2 in 2012, alongside Hulu's first original scripted show; mockumentary comedy Battleground.
2012 and 2013 saw the introuction of several unscriped series: Richard Linklater's docu-series Up to Speed, reality series Raising the Bar, and the Kevin Smith lead movie review show Spoilers, and in August 2013 two more scripted half-hour series premiered: the animated comedy The Awesomes and western comedy Quick Draw.
Additionally, several UK and Canadian series, e.g. Misfits, Endgame, Mongrels, Whites, Spy, and The Booth at the End, are also available for the US audience, exclusively through Hulu.
In-Depth
- Program Listing: A complete listing of shows that aired new episodes on Hulu.
Current Shows
- Difficult People (Season 3 — August 8, 2017)
- The Mindy Project (Season 6 — September 12, 2017)
Future Shows
- I Love You, America (Season 1 — October 12, 2017)
- Future Man (Season 1 — November 14, 2017)
- Marvel's Runaways (Season 1 — November 21, 2017)
- The Looming Tower (Season 1 — sometime in 2017)
- Last Chance U (Season 3 — sometime in 2017)
- Castle Rock (Season 1 — sometime in 2018)
- The Handmaid's Tale (Season 2 — sometime in 2018)
Shows in Limbo
- Dimension 404 (Season 1 — April 4-April 25, 2017)
