History Creator / Hulu

!!FX On Hulu

** Creator/{{CBS}} [[note]]Unlike ABC, NBC and Fox, Hulu's CBS library is limited to archive programming and does not include current-season shows, which instead stream on Creator/ParamountPlus.[[/note]]

** Creator/{{Max}}[[note]]via add-on only. Creator/{{HBO}} content available in-app; Max content accessible via the Max app.[[/note]]

In 2014, in a significant deal with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Hulu managed streaming of all ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episodes. Where they used to be available for free via South Park Studios' own website, unedited, the episodes are now on a [[http://southpark.cc.com new site]] on Comedy Central's domain which is managed by Hulu. Older episodes are now bleeped for language and now have commercials inserted like other Hulu programming. When Season 18 of ''South Park'' premiered in September 2014, the entire show ceased being available at the old site and from that point now only 30 episodes are available for free on a rotating basis on Hulu (Hulu subscription subscribers, naturally, have access to the entire series). Needless to say, fans were not [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/SouthParkonHulu happy]] (The show left Hulu for Creator/HBOMax in June 2020 as part of a deal between the service and CC).

On December 14, 2017, Disney announced that it would acquire Fox's stake in Hulu as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox's entertainment properties, giving Disney majority control of Hulu. The deal was finalized in March 2019, and in April of that year AT&T divested its 10% stake in the service. A few weeks later in May, Comcast and Disney announced that Comcast had relinquished its say in the operation of Hulu in exchange for a potentially above market-value buyout in 2024, giving Disney full ownership of the service; NBCU will no longer provide content to Hulu beginning September 2022. While Disney-owned content is largely being directed to the Creator/DisneyPlus streaming service and first-run 20th-branded film content is licensed to Creator/{{HBO}} for the time being (though said channel, along with Creator/HBOMax, is available as an add-on under Hulu), Hulu's new ownership is becoming increasingly apparent through a new crossover brand initiative with Creator/FXNetworks, titled "FX on Hulu," which will see a large amount of new FX and FXX content premiere on Hulu just a day after airing on cable, and even some new FX-produced original series becoming Hulu exclusives (beginning with Creator/AlexGarland's ''Series/{{Devs}}'').[[note]]They also conducted a similar arrangement with [[Creator/NationalGeographicChannel National Geographic's]] ''Series/{{Barkskins}}'' and ''Series/{{Genius}}'', presumably due to those series being deemed inappropriate for Disney+.[[/note]] It has also been announced that Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios and Creator/SearchlightPictures will create films explicitly for the streamer, beginning with Searchlight's ''Film/SummerOfSoul'' in July 2021. Hulu has allowed some of its higher-profile third-party deals, such as ''Seinfeld'' and ''South Park'', to be snatched by [[Creator/{{Netflix}} other]] [[Creator/HBOMax services]], though they have made no indication that they are abandoning third-party material entirely (They snatched the rights to ''Series/SchittsCreek'' in October 2022, a swipe from Netflix).

** Creator/HBOMax[[note]]via add-on only. Creator/{{HBO}} content available in-app; Max content accessible via the HBO Max app.[[/note]]

** With Creator/HBOMax in 2021, when the service came to an agreement with Disney to extend their US first pay-TV window rights to Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios and Creator/SearchlightPictures films to the end of 2022 (rather than expiring mid-year). The deal also allowed HBO Max to accelerate the release of these films on their platforms, rather than waiting around 9 months from release; in exchange, however, HBO Max will share streaming rights to half of the Disney-owned slate with Disney+ and Hulu. The first film released under this arrangement was ''WesternAnimation/RonsGoneWrong'', which premiered on both HBO Max and Disney+ the same date as its general home video release. A few months later, ''Film/{{Nightmare Alley|2021}}'' would premiere on HBO Max and Hulu '''before''' arriving on standard home video platforms.

* NetworkDecay: Hulu started out in October 2007 as a partnership between Creator/{{Disney}} (Creator/{{ABC}}), Creator/NBCUniversal (Creator/{{NBC}}) and News Corp. (Creator/{{Fox}}), later adding other partners (most notably Time Warner[=/=]Creator/WarnerMedia), in order to provide free, ad-supported streaming of recent episodes of those networks' series. In June 2010 they added Hulu Plus (a name they'd abandon in April 2015), an ad-supported subscription service which allowed access to full seasons, day-after access to current season content and more episodes of shows available. One month later they announced they were thinking of international expansion (which would happen in Japan under their name in September 2011, and in February 2021 in other regions under the Creator/{{Star|DisneyPlus}} name). In September 2015 they added "No Commercials" and "Limited Commercials" options. In August 2016 they spun off the original free service to Platform/{{Yahoo}} View (which was discontinued in June 2019). In December 2017, Disney announced they bought News Corp. spinoff 21st Century Fox and, with it, its stake on Hulu. In April 2019 it was the turn of [=WarnerMedia=] and one month later [=NBCUniversal=] relinquished control and is planning to sell its share in 2024. (The latter has launched its own competitor, Creator/{{Peacock}}, which has its own free membership plan where one enjoy a partial selection of the library with limited ads.) Nowadays Hulu is one component of Disney's direct-to-consumer strategy, alongside Creator/DisneyPlus and [[Creator/{{ESPN}} ESPN+]].

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