by Stevie Smith
Hey, Stephen... don't look now, but I think we're being dropped from Hulu. Image: Hans
you’re a Hulu user with unwatched episodes of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report presently sitting in your queue, we’d suggest you get ‘em watched by Wednesday of next week because Comedy Central is pulling the shows from the popular online streaming service.
According to Hulu, the hit political satires are being taken from its virtual shelves due to the service’s current inability to secure the rights to the shows beyond midnight of March 09.
“In the past 21 months, we’ve had very strong results for both Hulu and Comedy Central, in terms of the views and revenue we’ve generated,” commented Andy Forsell, senior vice president of content and distribution at Hulu.
“After a series of discussions with the team at Comedy Central, though, we ultimately were unable to secure the rights to extend these shows for a much longer period of time,” he added.
Although The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (and several other Comedy Central library shows) will soon depart, Forsell was keen to point out that Hulu is still in talks with the broadcaster regarding content opportunities and is confident that the two outfits will be working together again in the future.
A related Reuters report has indicated that Comedy Central’s decision to pull its leading properties from Hulu comes as a number of broadcasters and online content deliver services continue to squabble over programming fees.
No comments:
Post a Comment