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Here’s the latest announcement of a Hulu distribution deal that doesn’t include basic information including price, launch date or a precise description of what’s being offered. In this case, Hulu’s “subscription streaming service” — it’s no longer being called Hulu Plus — will serve as a VOD service for AT&T “later…

UPDATE, 6:40 AM: Jerry Seinfeld, looking tanned and rich, closed out Hulu’s NewFront/UpFront presentation this morning with a few reminiscences about his show, all nine seasons of which will begin streaming exclusively on the channel. “That was a long, long time ago,” he said. “For a long time, people didn’t think…

The Long Island-based cable operator presents us with a head-scratcher. Cablevision says it has an agreement to “offer Hulu’s subscription streaming service to Optimum customers,” making it the “first cable or satellite provider” that will provide Hulu’s “comprehensive on-demand content.” That could be a big deal if…

Hulu Plus has acquired exclusive streaming rights to Emmy-nominated Sleepy Hollow. The complete first season is now available on Hulu Plus ahead of the Fox drama series’ second season premiere on September 22. After the premiere, Hulu Plus will have day-after-air access to new episodes and will have all season two…

The changes might not surprise those who closely follow the streaming video deals that seem to hit every day, but it’s illuminating to see a statistical measure of the shift in the top providers’ content libraries. That’s what Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson served up this week in a look at how Netflix, Amazon, Hul…

Under the exclusive deal with Shine International, all episodes of the first season of FX‘s The Bridge will be available on Hulu Plus beginning today. Limited promotional episodes also will be available on Hulu.com. Starring Demian Bichir and Diane Kruger, the present-day crime thriller explores tensions on the…

“Our goal is to continue to lead the online video advertising market,” CEO Mike Hopkins says in a blog post — echoing the message he delivered this morning at Hulu‘s Newfront presentation in NYC. The TV network backed streaming service says that its Hulu Plus subscription service has more than 6M subscribers — nice…

The exclusive licensing deal announced today makes Hulu Plus the exclusive destination for all previous seasons of Universal TV's The Mindy Project and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, with Bravo series like The Real Housewives and Top Chef franchises and E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians also available exclusively in the…

The 2,600 new episodes going to the streaming service in the non-exclusive arrangement will include Undercover Boss, United States Of Tara, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Ghost Whisperer, the companies just announced. Also in the package are hits from the CBS vaults including Taxi, The Brady Bunch, Laverne & Shirley, Mel…

Disney/ABC Television Group has inked an exclusive multi-year licensing agreement with Hulu Plus for SVOD rights to the drama series. Beginning now, all past Nashville episodes and clips  are available on the subscription service. Currently in its second season, Nashville, produced by Lionsgate, ABC Studios and Opry…

CBS has signed a non-exclusive content licensing agreement with Hulu Plus for Blue Bloods, the CBS TV Studios drama that earlier this week landed off-net deals with ION and WGN America. The news of an SVOD partner is the final piece of the multi-platform syndication pie for the Friday cop procedural, now in its fourth…

Hulu Plus has acquired subscription video on demand rights for CBS’ Elementary. This is an SVOD component of the exclusive off-network rights deal announced last week by WGN America for the drama series. Under the deal, Hulu Plus has the rights to offer complete past seasons of episodes of Elementary to its…