FOX ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES MULTI-YEAR HULU CONTENT PARTNERSHIP
FOX Entertainment and Hulu have entered a multi-year content partnership, encompassing in-season streaming rights for FOX’s expansive programming slate and an extensive multi-platform strategic marketing alliance, it was announced today by FOX Entertainment and Hulu.
Under the terms of the agreement, all FOX primetime entertainment programming – including The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, The Great North — will continue to stream on Hulu the next day following its linear telecast. Additionally, the deal includes a major alliance, whereby FOX and Hulu branding will jointly share presence across all FOX owned and external marketing touchpoints to align live and on-demand viewing messaging of FOX content.
Today’s announcement follows the major program output deal between the two companies unveiled last February that allows Hulu to stream all out-of-season episodes of key FOX animated programs like animated comedies HouseBroken and all-new Krapopolis, from Dan Harmon, and Grimsburg, starring and executive produced by Jon Hamm, which produced by FOX Entertainment’s Emmy Award-winning Studio, Bento Box Entertainment.
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?