It was just Thursday when we reported on Seth Meyers' new movie, Home for the Holidays, and how it was set to go into production later this year. And now comes word that he has a new series in the pipeline for Hulu. I guess he just get super bored being the head writer and Weekend Update anchor at SNL. Gotta keep the ol' brain active somehow! In any case, the show is called The Awesomes and is being produced by SNL/Fallon producer Michael Shoemaker. It'll be about "an unassuming superhero and his cohorts who battle diabolical villains, the ever-present paparazzi and a less-than-ideal reputation as second-class [...]
While recapping Saturday Night Live episodes for the past year or so, it has come to my attention that Hulu — the primary source for SNL viewers who watch episodes online (an increasing number of people under 30, it turns out) — typically leaves out a sketch or two when it uploads an episode. The reasons usually concern music licensing. NBC has to pay a large amount of money to get the rights to use a copyrighted song in a sketch, and that amount increases significantly if that sketch will be posted online (NBC’s website and sites like Hulu, which has a contract with NBC). So any part of [...]
Battleground’s first crime is that it’s unfunny, and sometimes painfully so. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s Hulu’s first attempt at original programming, and is not very good. It’s an Office knock-off, which, sure, fine. The setting is what made me watch it in the first place: a political campaign. I’ve worked a few campaign cycles (that’s what we call them, cycles! Lingo! And ‘08 Obama and a bunch of Congressional races, if you must know) and it's an environment just begging to be mocked: a high-pressure workplace of mostly strangers thrown into practically living together, working seven days a week and trying to sleep with each other [...]
There comes a time in the life of a comedy television superviewer when the offerings of the home country are no longer enough to satisfy. One struggles, one strains at the boundaries, every episode of the American Office a bucket of nails furiously pounding themselves into one's head with each line of dialogue. It is at these times more than any other when we must expand our gaze beyond the national horizon and to the brilliantly glittering world overseas, to Scotland and to Australia, via that most auspicious of all transporters, Hulu.
Here's a nice surprise for your Friday lunch break: the first episode of Portlandia is available on Hulu a full week before it's set to air on IFC. It's embedded right there above! How convenient!
