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Three-Year Deal Nets Hulu Exclusive Rights To South Park
First time accepted submitter gunner_von_diamond writes with news about a deal between the creators of South Park and Hulu. If you're a fan of South Park, you better be a fan of Hulu as well. Specifically, Hulu Plus. The creators of the funny, foul-mouthed animated TV show have signed a deal with the online streaming service. Valued at more than $80 million, the three-year deal grants Hulu exclusive rights to stream the 240+ episode back catalog of South Park in addition to all new episodes (as soon as they've aired on Comedy Central). "This is a natural partnership for us. We are excited that the entire library will be available on Hulu and that the best technology around will power South Park Digital Studios," said creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, in a statement.
What about Canada, you uncle fuckers?
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They would have had my money through Amazon Instant Video.
they finally sold out. At least it took almost 20 years.
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So... they give us Hulu...
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Super sweet
They should have said "Hulu sucks balls, but they will pay the most" instead of this PR b.s.
I just tested the dutch version and it doesn't seem to be going through hulu.
Bittorrent. And PopcornTime. And every other filesharing network and file host on the entire planet.
Keep walling those gardens. It's all wasted effort. The walls are transparent when the garden is digital.
Screw you guys. I'm going home!
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Yohoho and a bottle of rum!
I tried Hulu Plus for a couple months, but it's just ridiculous. We were forced to watch the same unskippable commercials as we'd seen in the free version, and every week I subscribed it seemed like either the individual commercial breaks got longer or the number of breaks increased (and perhaps both). If I wanted to scroll back to re-view some critical part of the show, and that part happened just before a commercial - I get to watch the commercials AGAIN. And there wasn't anything I wanted to watch that was on Hulu Plus but not on regular Hulu! So basically they wanted me to pay their subscription fee just to remove the artificial restriction that prevents non-Plus subscribers from watching Hulu on devices other than their computer.
So if you haven't experienced it, here's the executive summary: The Hulu Plus experience is pretty much exactly what you'd expect, given the company was the brainchild of a couple broadcast networks.
I don't care what exclusives they get - I will never subscribe to Hulu Plus again.
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People still watch South Park.....
As a long time SP fan, anything that keeps it going is fine with me.
Good news for Trey and Matt, the show is on multiple times per day here and I don't know how I can do much more watching. Comedy Central technology works OK for me.$80 mil? Really?
I watched an episode of it on Hulu the other night. It wasn't an all out terrible experience. While Hulu is far more agressive with their anti-adblocking, they have far fewer ads than South Park Studios did. (South Park Studios often had more ads than watching on Comedy Central.)
That said, since it's going behind the paywall and I don't watch anything else behind Hulu's paywall, I guess I'll just find some other show that makes decent background noise. (Or just pirate it, but I suspect I'm too lazy to do that.)
Hulu Plus became a non-option for me when they decided to show unskippable commercials in their content. I'm amazed that they had 80 dollars to spend on new content, much less 80 million.
Super Best Friends?
Comedy Central censored out Evangaline (female Butters) talking about getting her snootch pounded on friday nights.
I'm guessing, no. Gutless Hulu.
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I just tried to watch South Park yesterday thru Hulu (actually on southparkstudios.com but it is now branded by "Powered By Hulu!" everywhere, yuck). But hey I tried it. The video glitched several times and kept crashing flash player (never happened before!). It also showed like 4 commercial breaks per episode, each one about 70-90 seconds long. I don't ever remember it being that long. It's like network TV, which is what I tried to avoid by watching online. Why don't managment/whoever ever understand this?!?! It's completely unwatchable and pisses me off and I probably won't be watching South Park online for the next few years.
Does that mean VPNs won't work anymore D: ?
You mean, in the pilot?
God started it, when he made Miley Cyrus rich and famous.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
To me, it's as if they WANT to drive everyone to don an eye-patch.
I agree the commercials suck. Also, having to watch the same commercials over and over again make me want to NOT buy that product because of the extreme annoyance that is now associated with the product. HOWEVER, between Hulu Plus, Netflix, and an OTA antenna I can satisfy all my TV needs without paying for the greater evil, Comcast or DirecTV. So whereas I hate the commercial breaks (and fortunately, some shows have none) I like the small step in cord-cutting that Hulu Plus provides me. Also, even though there are a lot of commercials, there are still fewer commercials while watching Hulu Plus than there are watching it on cable.
So they were funny up until the pilot?
Granting the was only Jesus vs. Santa wrasling.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
tl;dr: southparkstudios.com will still carry everything for free according to the article.
They must be trying to attract a male audience. I took a look at Hulu. All I saw was the crappy, prime time network crap that has been engineered for middle aged women of below average IQ. Revenge, Hell's Kitchen, The Kardashians, etc. The shows that might be interesting (Doctor Who and a few others) aren't exclusive and can be seen sans annoying commercials on Amazon and/or Netflix.
When I think of the South Park audience I don't think Hulu. That's probably what Hulu was thinking - what a way to attract new subscribers! Here's the thing. People who want to watch South Park still aren't going to Hulu. They'll just torrent the episodes (sans commercials) for free. I can't imagine that 80 million is going to net much for Hulu, but good for Parker and Stone.
i noticed this earlier. i sent them an email. as an expat i always watched new episodes on their website. now with hulu region-ing everything that option is gone.
Since it's free to watch to begin with, I don't see any value here.
DVD sales of South Park increase
They don't give a shit anymore.
RIP South Park Studios, I guess I'll have to find South Park episodes on YouTube or other streaming sites, or download them.
South Park is long past the glory days when it was the saving grace of Comedy Central. Here's a perfect way to bring further revenue in for new episodes and paywall content from better seasons past.
The creators of South Park are very clever, and they see the writing on the wall - South Park isn't going to last forever.
Hulu is a joke, Hulu Plus is an insult. The broadcast industry in general is an insult. Protected Entitled Industry is Entitled ... well, Entitled to NOTHING.
My Son, who is 20, simply hasn't watched "Commercial Infested" Entertainment for 4+ years? Most of his friends are the same way. The "commercial" model is not sustainable for much longer, then it will be dead ... good bye and good riddance. Hulu Plus? Utter Joke and isn't competition for NetFlix in the least. Hulu is the titanic of the Broadcast industry ... it's going to go under and take a lot of entities with it.
So tired of the "Entertainment Industry" wagging the dog so-to-speak. Once Ala-Carte pricing hits, and it will hit sooner or later, the "whoosh" of money leaving the entire industry will be deafening and long over due.
The Pirate Bay will be devastated.
If I did not know how to bypass their ads I'd never use them.
It's an exclusive deal that kicks in this Fall.
At the moment, downloaded "purchases" from the iTunes Store, Netflix, and Amazon don't have ads. Replayable, scrubbable, etc.
With this deal, viewers pay three times to watch. Once for cable/internet service, second by watching on Comedy Central, and then third via Hulu plus un-skippable ads, if you like an occasional re-run. Yeech!
I'll stick to the free HD TV rips that've always gone up shortly after airing.
Paying a monthly fee for streaming service that has commercials? Defeats the entire fucking point. If I wanted to do that, I'd just watch it on TV. Fucking morons
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I'm Netflix...
Others have already said this but I am weighing in here so if Hulu is reading this they get why I am no longer a customer and won't be coming back until they change. I am not paying for a service that has advertisements, period. I don't care if you add South Park or not. I would rather buy a box set of DVDs than pay for commercials on a streaming service. Besides, isn't asking me to pay and then watch commercials double dipping? They said, when I left, that the commercials allowed them to offer better content. How about charging me another buck or two for a commercial free service? End rant.
I'm disappointed with this direction all the Streaming Services seem to be taking...
Instead of excelling by providing a stellar service, they're locking their users in by obtaining "exclusive rights" to content.
Hulu is the worst of the bunch, their Plus service is a joke - the sole benefits of which are:
1. You can watch episodes of the most popular running shows the day after airing. (even though you used to be able to do this without Plus and can still watch without plus, a week or so later.)
2. You can use Hulu on other Devices.
You still get Ads (which are increasing in both number and frequency - yes, I noticed Hulu!)
And you still don't get a lot of prime content, like most CBS shows.
I have a Plus subscription, pretty much for the convenience factor of running Hulu on my XBOX which is my media hub. But I'm really starting to question it's value now that they're yet again increasing Ad load. I didn't drop Cable because Hulu lets me watch shows when I want (that's a nice extra), I dropped cable because there were too many Ads and Hulu had less (way less at the time.) Now Hulu is pretty much Cable-on-demand, so perhaps it's time to drop it too - I'll save the $8 /mo and buy the season on VOD/DVD or BluRay instead.
Does this mean we'll finally get to see episode 201 again? Seeing as how it's not allowed to show on southparkstudios.net
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It is actions like this that cause an increase in piracy of content. Taking what used to be free to watch and now charging for it. The content providers are thus promoting the piracy of their own products.
First of all, I doubt they'll post the "entire library." The Muhammad episodes have been censored for years now. Second, watching SP for free online is one of the keys to its success. No one will buy Hulu for this (or Comcast, Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO, etc). The pay model for on demand TV shows is dead, dead, dead.
Matt and Trey are laughing all the way to the bank. Good for them.
They GUI on an XBox (and I assume other platforms) is downright awful. They suggest content in an inferior way and it takes far, far, far too many button presses to do what you want. On top of that, it's laggy. You click, you hear a noise of acknowledgment, *then* the system draws the fade out to next screen. Seriously?!? Yes.