Hulu is launching a huge slate of original and exclusive comment for the summer months.

Hulu made its debut at the upfronts week in New York City today, and it brought a lot of new original projects with it to show off. As we noted earlier this week, Hulu was set to make its inaugural presentation at the annual ad week in New York City today.  It was suspected that it might

Hulu will be joining the ranks of cable channels and networks when it has its first ad buyer presentation on Thursday. Every spring the cable channels and over-the-air networks go through a dog and pony show called “upfronts.” This is where the comanies have big presentations for the ad buyers to show them what new

Netflix had better watch out as it appears Amazon is attempting to move in on their territory when it comes to device support. Earlier today, Barclays downgraded its rating on the Netflix stock citing concerns over growing competition for the company.  A few hours later that competition most certainly reared its ugly head as Amazon

Hulu announced today that it has released a brand new Hulu Plus app for seven Android tablets. For those of you with Android tablets out there, Hulu is hard at work making sure you get the best experience you can while using their streaming service.  The new app is currently available on the Google Play

Americans are going to watch a lot more movies at home this year, but the entertainment industry won’t be making nearly as much money from it. According to a new report from IHS Screen Digest, the number of films bought or rented online this year will grow by 135 percent in 2012 to 2.4 billion.  While

Hulu announced today that it is making some updates to the Web version of its player to make it a little bit more user friendly. We got a very brief note from Hulu this morning that they’ve made some much needed improvements to the Web video player.  For starters, the image area has grown by

Hulu Plus is now available on the Wii. If you currently have a Wii with broadband access you can download the application from the Wii Shop Channel and start watching now. Hulu Plus content has been optimized for the Nintendo console, so you can use your controller to navigate through menus and control content. If

Hulu has announced it has picked it up another original series in the form of the mocumentry comedy series, Paul the Male Matchmaker. Set to launch February 13, Hulu will again be dipping its toe into the original content pool with the new comedy series Paul the Male Matchmaker from Sex and the City‘s Liz Tuccillo and

For years now so-called experts have been crowing about how the world is going to turn more and more to “cord cutting,” the act of getting rid of your cable or satellite subscription and only watching what the Internet can deliver to you.  This has been a wonderful dream, but even as recently as 2008,

It seems that the streaming video providers are no longer just battling it out over what rights they can secure for existing content, but also how much of their own original productions they can release. Hulu has released the first trailer for its upcoming series, Battleground that follows the campaign team for a senator. Considering

For many of its early adopters, the Nintendo 3DS has been a little disappointing — hence its slow start. However, Nintendo is doing all it can to make the handheld a decent purchase. In addition to a very generous price cut some months ago, the company has also promised a number of updates that will

For a lot of people, Hulu Plus is like a necessary evil. No, you don’t get quite the same content through the mobile app that you would online, and your $7.99 per month for shows and movies still comes with ads. But it’s still at the top of the heap for streaming current content to

It seems that the first stage of the Hulu sale is due to come to an end next week with all potential buyers expected to turn in their initial bids by the end of the week.  While it isn’t known who the final companies submitting bids will be, it is expected that the number will

It seems that Hulu wants in on the original content game for itself.  Despite the fact that the streaming media service is currently up for sale, it looks like they are still in the mood to strike some content deals, and that includes signing a deal with a well known documentary filmmaker for an original series. It

First, there was Hulu.com. Then Hulu.com begat Hulu Plus for $9.99. Then Hulu Plus issued forth a reduction to $7.99 last fall. And ever since the new, non-browser paid option was introduced, the masses cried, “Why are you charging us and still sticking in ads??” And the question still stands, even in light of the

If you’ve been toying with the idea of cutting your cable – such as our own Noah Kravitz – you had better be ready to wait eight days to watch any Fox network shows via the Internet. Beginning Aug. 15th, just before the fall 2011 television season premieres in Sept., Fox will require you to

While Netflix is currently in hot water with subscribers due to its recent price hike, that event happened in the third quarter of the year, leaving the company free to have a massive second quarter. The first quarter of the year set record revenue and subscriber numbers for Netflix, and while the company expected subscriber

At last the missing element of the Hulu puzzle has fallen into place.  Since earlier this month it was known that the streaming service was looking into selling out to someone, and the list of potential buyers included tech luminaries such as Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Yahoo and more.  One name that no one had talked

Enough is enough. In my house we have cable TV with a few hundred channels, two DVRs, and a monthly bill that – when you figure in HBO/Encore and cable modem Internet service – pushes into three figures. Frankly, that’s just too expensive. Subtract for the Internet service and we’re still looking at $80 or

It appears that Hulu has become the most popular girl at the school dance all of a sudden.  As we all know by now, the popular streaming video service is up for sale.  While there were some reports last week of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all expressing interest, it now seems that so many big

With the news this week that Hulu is up for sale, I just can’t help but wonder if we won’t be writing the service’s obituary in the not so distant future. Launched in March of 2008, Hulu seemed like the perfect solution for the networks that owned a chunk of the programming as well as

Moving from rumor to hard fact today, Hulu is up for sale.  ”Why?” seems to be the big question, and we can’t say as we blame anyone for asking that. It all started with a report from The Wall Street Journal that the company had received an unsolicited offer to buy it out.  No names have

The age of the giant DVD collections in our homes certainly appears to be coming to an end. According to Deadline, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman was speaking at the Nomura Securities U.S. Media Conference when he said that all of Viacom’s divisions – which include Paramount Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon and many more – were going to have to review

Hulu has signed a multi-year agreement with Miramax so show its films on the Internet streaming service. Starting today, Miramax films such as Good Will Hunting, Clerks and Pulp Fiction will be available to Hulu Plus subscribers. Hulu will also rotate 15 Miramax films per month onto Hulu.com, for non-Plus subscribers, with ad breaks to