Three-Year Deal Nets Hulu Exclusive Rights To South Park 138
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.
Dear Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Score:5, Funny)
What about Canada, you uncle fuckers?
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What about Canada, you uncle fuckers?
I'm simply happy someone out there is giving Netflix some fucking competition already.
I was getting rather sick and tired of the Internet slowly being divided into two forms of traffic: Netflix and everything else. Hell, even porn was getting jealous.
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AFAIK Hulu isn't giving Netflix any competition outside of the U.S.A.
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Oh wait...
Re:Dear Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah. But it's Hulu.
Sorry, but Hulu's add-supported format sucks so hard you're expecting it to eat a bird and explode like a jet engine.
And any sub fees for Hulu Plus don't make those stupid, repetitive ads go away or decrease in frequency. You're just paying for access to more ad-infested content.
If that's competition, I'll stick with Amazon Prime and Netflix.
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If only I had mod points....
Yeah I tried out all three of the services.
Netflix is wining because it's the best for the amount of content and it works on everything down to the Wii.
Amazon has newer content than Netflix but overall has less content. So to me getting Netflix and Amazon is a good fit they compliment each other.
Hulu.... When I was able to get it working...(PC,PS3,Wii-U,Wii,Android.) Technical difficulties aside, too many commercials, too much weird "content" IE previews of shows they don't actua
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Regular Hulu is great, if you are poor like me, and streaming to a connected Big Screen TV isn't even an option. If you're poor like me, even with the ads, hands down it beats all other TV options, just to be able to schedule one's TV schedule randomly and at-will. Then there's the folks with so much money I can't comprehend, and subscriptions for these folks isn't gonna hurt them, but in their case, why would all the ads be acceptable? Netflix and Amazon Prime don't have any ads, and can easily be shared a
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They aren't really comparable. Netflix and Amazon won't get shows until they are about a year old. Hulu get's shows when they are as little as one day old.
Which these other services could do if they weren't trying to be hamstrung by Old Media.
Then when they do get shows, they release the whole season at once, and you will binge watch them. I don't want to concentrate my shows like that.
If you binge, that's on YOU, not the medium. Sorry, but I find this a fairly pathetic argument. The medium is bad because you can't control yourself?
Plus you can't talk about the shows with anyone else, and you have to constantly watch out for spoilers.
I guess. I tend to work, a lot. And I'm fairly antisocial to begin with. So this isn't even a problem for me.
I pay for Hulu Plus, because it's way convenient. No need to turn the computer on to stream it, keeps track of which episodes you've watched, has high quality video, includes closed captions, etc.
And you can stream Amazon and Netflix from various devices as well. Hell, I have my parents' smart TVs hooked up to Amazon through their own account and to Netf
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Troll or not, I do agree with him about the closed captioning. Not everyone speaks english natively and some actors are harder to understand than others. Or sometimes, there's too much music/FX in a scene to easily understand what they say too.
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Yes, captions are key in my household of two non-native English speakers. Though it is interesting to note that VLC subtitle handling is *far* superior to Hulu, Netflix and Amazon combined. Fan-written subtitles tend to be of much higher quality much of the time.
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I was getting rather sick and tired of the Internet slowly being divided into two forms of traffic:
Popcorn Time.
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What about Canada, you uncle fuckers?
I'm simply happy someone out there is giving Netflix some fucking competition already.
I was getting rather sick and tired of the Internet slowly being divided into two forms of traffic: Netflix and everything else. Hell, even porn was getting jealous.
They're not. Hulus just a conglomerate owned by all the networks. Don't expect any innovation to come out of there... the sole purpose of Hulu is to try and prevent anything better from coming along.
Re:Dear Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Score:5, Insightful)
You could put this comment on any other article and it would be (-1, Troll) instead of (5, Funny.)
Thanks, South Park!
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It's also informative, since technically Canada isn't supposed to get Hulu Plus (though it's not too hard to get around that limitation).
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We also get another version of Netflix the majority of which is shit tier compared to the US. Though that's also trivial to get around.
Re: Dear Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Score:2)
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I'm not your buddy, pal!
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You need a cable subscription to be able to use a streaming service.
That's how insane the old media pigs have become. It's not that they don't have a clue, it's that they don't even live in the same fucking century as the rest of the planet.
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Which is why Hulu paid a premium for the exclusive.
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All you can really do is boycott Hulu in protest.
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...or we can all get in a pile and have gay sex.
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...too late. I already avoid Hulu because commercials are something that belong back in the 50s with embedded sponsor testimonials.
Tivo liberated me from commercials in the 90s.
Not going back.
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Honestly, I don't use Hulu either. And I just have to hope this results in a net loss for South Park, so others don't follow suit.
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Net loss for South Park? They already got their $80 million and that was all pure profit as they were already well in the black just from airing on Comedy Central. But I don't really expect even a D grde level of economics from most /. posters.
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It is not about opportunity costs, it is about economic surplus.
Consumer surplus is trimmed because consumers now have to pay more - either directly or indirectly.
Supplier surplus is increased as they shift their profits up.
In theory this could might increase total surplus or even total consumer surplus. With increased profits suppliers would supply more shows. Look at the shows that Netflix and Amazon are putting out. Would these shows have been made with these exclusive deals?
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All this will increase is torrent traffic.
I can't stand the 'exclusive' bullshit that networks and providers are playing lately. You try to edge out other providers so people 'have' to use your service? Nahhhhhh....
It's kind of funny that Netflix/hulu/etc. won't compete on service or ease of use or price or etc. but instead play exclusivity games. If you want XYZ you HAVE to use us. (ok, they phrase it differently)
Screw you guys, I'm goin home.
Re:Why? (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, but Amazon and Netflix don't give you the privilege of watching several minutes of unskippable commercials for your $8/month. It's a bonus you only get with Hulu!
Re:Why? (Score:4, Informative)
I'm not sure why they had your money at all. IT was free at southparkstudios.com .
It's like saying, don't bother with the free content, I want to pay for everything so go ahead and start charging.
I guess I will have to start watching from torrents again
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I guess I will have to start watching from torrents again
Is it even worth bothering at this point? I can't think of the last time South Park was really clever.
There's better stuff to watch on Netflix.
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Imagination Land and the recent Black Friday trilogy were good.
But Key and Peele are where it is at with regards to Comedy Central lately.
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Cartman riding Cthulu was clever.
Re:Good for them (Score:4, Insightful)
define sold out, they're fairly wealthy, adding another distribution channel isn't really selling out, its reaching a wider audience, they sell out when they start censoring themselves.
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define sold out, they're fairly wealthy, adding another distribution channel isn't really selling out...
No, but taking away distribution channels for money is. You could, as of last check, watch all the episodes online on southparkstudios.com. Now you will only have select episodes and new episodes. That sounds like selling out to me.
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I like a different definition of "selling out" that I came across recently. Selling out is when an artist decides to make money instead of starving. By that definition, they sold out pretty much from day one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Sorry. This is the one you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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They're not. They're removing. You used to be able to watch the back catalog on SPS whenever you wanted. Now you just get a limited rotating selection.
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Is this possibly why the 'south park channel' on Plex suddenly stopped working? :(
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Hulu doesn't cost money other than watching the ads which were on southparkstudios.com as well. All the episodes right now are on regular Hulu. You don't need Hulu Plus.
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From http://variety.com/2014/digita... [variety.com]:
Starting Saturday, July 12, the entire “South Park” library — 244 episodes in all — will be available for free on Hulu, and will continue to be free on SouthPark.cc.com (the address that is replacing SouthParkStudios.com) until Sept. 24. At that point, both Hulu and SouthPark.cc.com will have day-after-air access to new episodes from season 18. In addition, each of the sites will offer a revolving selection of 30 free episodes at any given time.
It sounds like they will not require Hulu plus until Sept 24, after that you will only get a "revolving selection of 30 free episodes" if you are not a member of Hulu Plus.
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It's a shame really. I refuse to pay for Hulu Plus because of the obnoxious ads. I don't have cable for a reason, and that reason is I have a problem paying monthly for something and still being bombarded by advertisements.
For me I'll probably just stop watching South Park. Not that I would reall
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Hulu doesn't cost money other than watching the ads which were on southparkstudios.com as well. All the episodes right now are on regular Hulu. You don't need Hulu Plus.
Not yet you don't. Come September 24th you will. Hulu Plus does cost money. Watching most South Park episodes will cost money *in addition* to commercials. That's a net loss for the viewer.
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they finally sold out.
You seem to be thinking that Trey Parker and Matt Stone had a cause. Or maybe that selling SP to HULU just to piss you off is somehow out of character for them. Haha. If a hooker offered them blowjobs for the rights to SP I wouldn't be surprised if they took the deal laughing.
Obligatory South Park Quote (Score:5, Funny)
Randy Marsh: Well yeah, but I just had one question about how it works. Well, it seems all the buttons on these front and rear flexi-grips are also found on the side of the vehicle.
Mr. Garrison: Yep.
Randy Marsh: So, they don't really do anything.
Mr. Garrison: Right.
Randy Marsh: So then, couldn't I just order one that works without going in and out of my ass and mouth?
Mr. Garrison: [pause]
Customers: Huh? What's that? What'd he say?
So... they give us Hulu...
You Know Who Else Has Rights to South Park? (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Well, how about that? (Score:3)
Not worth it (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Not worth it (Score:5, Informative)
That was my basic opinion of it as well. I'm not paying money to watch commercials, especially when I can watch amazon or netflix without commercials.
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Some people like cereal that tastes like bran, because they NEED to taste the punishment it requires to be healthy and nut just eat a salad or a pine cone.
If I can't see a Progressive commercial 20 times in one Hulu show, I don't feel like I've earned the movie. I might as well turn off the computer and take a walk.
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Squirrels eat pine cones; i've never heard of a person doing that.
And you can't have salad for breakfast; that's just wrong!
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They noted "This is a natural partnership for us" and I was thinking, "what, the Hulu executives are a bunch of foul-mouthed caricatures?" As you noted, they are the brainchild of broadcast networks, so perhaps, yes. I think the characters on South Park may have demonstrated more business savvy than these executives, though.
But, same deal here, I'll never pay for Hulu anything. If Netflix doesn't offer it or I can't otherwise find it, I just don't need to watch it.
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I like hulu plus. There are show wouldn't have found otherwise.
Sure, maybe you aren't interested in there subscription shows, but that doesn't make it bad. It makes it bad for you.
Brooklyn 99, Life on Mars to just name 2
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Because naming 3 would be difficult without saying; "South Park is XClusive!"
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-Chris
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I look at it this way: I can pay $100+ a month to watch cable TV with commercials or I can pay $9 for Netflix, $8 for Hulu Plus, and nothing for my TV antenna for local shows. Yes, the ads on Hulu Plus are annoying, repetitive, and can't be skipped. But, I grew up in the 70s and 80s and have developed the skills to cope with ads and the lack of time shifting for local news. Millennial's milage may vary...
The problem is, how much of that $100 is your internet bill? Adding the TV channels to my Comcast bill added ~$30/mo to my bill, and that included all of the sports channels we would use (e.g. ESPN family, B1G, Tennis Channel, &c.) as well as HBO. Granted, we used a cablecard w/ an HDHR unit to avoid another $20-$30/mo and the headache of using their DVR (why the hell can't it output the video in a fixed format instead of switching between 480P/720P/1080i when channel surfing???), but spending $30/mo
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You don't have to watch cable TV with commercials.. Get a DVR.. or jeez, a VCR. I was skipping commercials well over 20 years ago with my own VCRs, close to 30 with my parents' VCR... and now with DVRs..
(Note, I *do* use On Demand once in a while, and that DOES have unskippable commercials for SOME channels.. Though after a couple of days, the commercials are often skippable [for non-broadcast stations], but even broadcast stations sometimes, e.g. Enlisted, had shows with NO commercials on On Demand.)
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Hulu's not Plus, they're just big-boned...
Seriously, same opinion here: I won't pay to watch commercials.
Trey and Matt: have fun with the money.
Hulu: screw you guys, I am going home...(or rather, to Netflix)
Not worth it (Score:1)
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Screw the biggest, most idiotic kind of that.
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I don't have it yet but was going to get it somewhat soon for some shows I want that I want to watch the current season of. However I do NOT want hulu, I want to watch on my tv and not my computer. The commercials are a pain but I'd get to see the programs maybe a year or two before Netflix.
At least I can try it out for a month to see if it works (unlike amazon where you have to pay for a full year).
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Do you twitch uncontrollably when someone mentions JitB?
You know you can click the "This commercial applies to me" button in order to use aversion therapy to remove any desire to buy a specific product, don't you? It's not commercials -- it's a FEATURE. If you want to lose weight, just choose the fast food category. If you want to stop sending money to starving people, choose one of the charities. The Army Recruiting aversion therapy may yet end war mongering in this country...
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Well they're not censored such as "Red Hot Catholic Love" and frankly the commercials (average about 10 sec) only occur 2 to 3 times an episode. I like Hulu Plus because they also have shows out there like "The Young Ones" and others that aren't on Netflix. It beats the shit out of fucking cable where every fucking channel is full of commercials. At our house we've gotten rid of HBO/Showtime etc. and now it's Hulu Plus, Netflix and Amazon Prime.
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Hey, watch your mouth buddy.
You should have written "It beats the shit out of fucking cable where every fucking channel is full of fucking commercials."
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That would be the vivid or playboy channel if you want fucking commercials.
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What's the big deal? I mean, there are people who LIKE having a search bar to make Windows 8 Tiles functional and Hulu Plus is for people who would like to pay for Netflix but they miss commercials.
There are also people who like toll booths. Stop being a Toll Booth, Win 8, Hulu Plus hater!
Oh, and I want Xbox One to bring back the restrictions on selling old games and being always online, because I'm a patriot!
Wait.... (Score:2)
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Wait, people still use the Internet?
Salute (Score:3)
Broadcast Syndication (Score:1)
I miss when South Park was on Netflix. (Score:2)
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 th
Unskippable commericals? No thanks. (Score:1)
Including censored episodes? (Score:3)
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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Also censored now is pooping out your mouth...
I too am curious what episodes will still be censored. Super Best Friends? Cartoon Wars? ...the aforementioned pooping episode?
Hulu Plus: Paid subscription with ads (Score:2)
To me, it's as if they WANT to drive everyone to don an eye-patch.
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Hulu: Television for Women (Score:2)
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 attrac
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disappointed by this (Score:1)
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.
Let me guess (Score:2)
They don't give a shit anymore.
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Yeah, that is pretty much how I view it too. I was thinking it seemed like they weren't really interested in South Park any more after they started doing broadway shows.
Wise Move by South Park Creators (Score:1)
The creators of South Park are very clever, and they see the writing on the wall - South Park isn't going to last forever.
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At least it'll free up a slot in my DVR's programming list.
Kids Don't Do Commercials ... (Score:1)
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
Ohh the Humanity (Score:1)
The Pirate Bay will be devastated.
"Exlusive" deal (Score:2)
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!
DAMNIT! (Score:1)
Hulu Blows (Score:1)
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 conte
Worrying Trend: (Score:1)
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.
ALL episodes? (Score:3)
Does this mean we'll finally get to see episode 201 again? Seeing as how it's not allowed to show on southparkstudios.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2... [wikipedia.org]
Promoting piracy (Score:1)
Re:Sacreligious Spew (Score:4, Insightful)
You mean, in the pilot?
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God started it, when he made Miley Cyrus rich and famous.
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So they were funny up until the pilot?
Granting the was only Jesus vs. Santa wrasling.