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Back to the Future Trilogy Will Stream Exclusively on Amazon Prime In October

Are you ready for October 21, 2015? That’s the date that Marty McFly arrives in the future — at least according to the second Back to the Future movie. But if you’re planning on watching the trilogy to celebrate, you’ll only have one streaming option: Amazon Prime. Starting October 1st, Amazon has the exclusive rights…

Finally: Hulu Offers No Ads, for $12 a Month

This was well overdue: Hulu is finally joining Netflix and Amazon to offer streaming without ads. But in order to get it, you’ll have to pay $4 extra. For $12 a month, you’ll be able to watch Hulu without having to sit through ads. If you don’t mind the ads so much, $8 a month…

Netflix Is Losing Lots of Big Movies Next Month, and Hulu Picked Them Right Up

Over the weekend, Netflix announced the service would be losing tons of big ticket blockbusters next month. Within hours, Hulu announced it would be scooping up those very movies. The streaming wars continue. Netflix announced the sad news on its company blog yesterday. Though the company leads by taking potshots at the studio system, the…

Hulu Doesn’t Want to Feed Your Binge-Watching Habit

Hulu sees the crumbs on your rumpled t-shirt, your bloodshot eyes, and your diminishing will to live—and it does not approve. Unlike Netflix, which drops whole seasons of new original shows at once, Hulu won’t be letting you binge watch its new original programming. The Mindy Project, Difficult People, Rocketjump: The Show, The Hotwives Of…

The WSJ saysthat Hulu’s plotting a no-ads version of its premium service that’ll cost $12-$14 per month. Pricey! But ads are terrible. We hate them. What’s to be done?

Every Episode of Seinfeld Is Now On Hulu

Back in April, we got the wonderful (terrible for corporate productivity) news that Hulu had bought up every single episode of Seinfeld. Well, binge-watchers, your time is nigh: hulu.com/seinfeld is now live. https://gizmodo.com/hulu-just-paid-nearly-180-million-for-every-episode-of-1700869520

You Can Now Add Showtime to Your Hulu Subscription for $9. Not Bad!

The a la carte TV options are expanding. If you’re a Hulu subscriber paying $8 per month, you can add Showtime for another $9 now, which is cheaper than Showtime’s recently announced $11 standalone option. Obviously this isn’t an earth-shattering deal, but it’s also not bad, especially if like me, you’re a Hulu subscriber already.…

Myst To Become A Hulu Series, But Only If You Can Solve This Puzzle

Beloved computer game Myst is getting a Hulu series. We’re not sure whether or not this means we’ll be forced to solve puzzles in each episode, but we are interested. Also, puzzles are cool. TV Line is reporting that Matt Tolmach of The Amazing Spider-Man and Evan Daugherty from Divergent are co-producing along with Hulu…

Two-Fifths of American Households Now Use Video Streaming Services

A new report by the media measurement organization Nielsen reveals that more than two-in-five American households now subscribe to an online video streaming service such as Netflix or Amazon Prime. Of the streaming services used around the country, Netflix wins out by a clear margin. In its Total Audience Report, Nielsen claims that around 36…

James Franco Will Try To Save JFK in Hulu’s 11/22/63

Time travel: it’s not just for films and TV anymore. Hulu’s adapting Stephen King’s 2011 story 11/23/63. And it’s just cast its star, who is also going to produce: James Franco. 11/23/63 will be an “event series” — which, seriously, is miniseries such a dirty word? Why have the last two years been inundated with…

Kevin Hart and SNL Shame Terrible Instagramers With a Wall Dungeon

The internet, and all the social media apps tethered to it, are amazing examples of our freedom of speech. You can pretty much post what you want, when you want, and that’s amazing. But on Instagram, that can lead to a lot of digital detritus filled with blurry landscapes, questionable selfies, and endless pictures of…

Mike Myers Returns to SNL as Dr. Evil To Make Fun of North Korea

The Sony hack is now more confusing that ever. The FBI says that North Korea is involved, yet the country denies involvement and is asking for a joint investigation into the matter. The whole situation has devolved into a game of “he said/she said,” and there’s only one person who can help set it all…

Hulu’s Former CEO Just Launched a Subscription-Based YouTube Rival

YouTube pretty much won the video war years ago, but there are still plenty of people vying for some of the action. Remember Viddy? Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar thinks that his new startup video site Vessel offers a unique subscription-based model ($3/month) that can pull YouTube stars over to a new platform. Long story…

Nexus Player Review: Android TV Isn’t Ready For Primetime

Android TV is exciting. It’s beautiful. The idea makes sense. And you should probably steer clear till Google gets its shit together. Until it does, the $100 Nexus Player just isn’t a good buy. What is it? The $100 Nexus Player is the first set-top-box to run Android TV, a new fork of the Android…

Redbox Instant Will Shut Down Streaming Video on October 7th

Redbox Instant, Verizon’s Netflix-battling streaming movie service and the companion to the automated DVD rental kiosk in your grocery store’s entryway, is shutting down on October 7th at 11:59PM. Better get your binge-watching out of your system now. Redbox Instant first hit the scene in December of 2012, tempting users with lower-than-Netflix pricing and a…

This Is the First Weekend in America With No Saturday Morning Cartoons

Saturday morning American broadcast TV was once animation’s home field. Filling a cereal bowl with artificially colored sugar pebbles and staring at the tube was every kid’s weekend plan. Not any more: For the first time in 50-plus years, you won’t find a block of animation on broadcast this morning. It’s the end of an…

What Bad Movies Have You Streamed Online That You Secretly Love?

We spend a lot of time talking about all the great films that are always a quick click away on our particular streaming platform of choice—and rightfully so. Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime do an admirable job of curating a rotating cast of blockbusters, art house sweethearts and critic-praising cinema. But to be honest, I…

J.J. Abrams Adapting Stephen King’s Time-Travel Novel 11/22/63 For Hulu

It’s official: Stephen King’s 11/22/63, about a man who is able to travel back in time and attempts to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is going to become a series. But instead of coming to a TV set near you, the series will stream on Hulu. There have been rumblings for a…

Hulu Is Producing a Stephen King/J.J. Abrams Miniseries About JFK

Creators of creep Stephen King and J.J. Abrams were destined to pair up at some point, and now Hulu is going to be one to bring them together. The site scored a huge coup in booking the duo for a new miniseries about the John F. Kennedy assassination, Hulu’s first big original content win. Although…

Rabbit Lets You Watch Videos With Friends, No Matter Where They Are

Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube all let you watch whatever you want, whenever you want. But if you wanted to watch with friends or family, you had to figure out when and where to meet in real life. Rabbit fixes that with a browser-based video chat service that lets you watch whatever you want with friends,…