RIP: Hulu! The streaming service goes dark at the end of the year.

[thewayne]

Disney is shuttering Hulu. They're migrating its content to Disney Star, which is apparently its home for more adult-themed content.

Hulu began almost twenty years ago in 2007 as one of the older streaming services. But, of course, Disney can't leave good enough alone and has got to absorb it into its own branding. We began watching Hulu a while back with Only Murders In The Building and a couple of other shows, but we haven't been watching much in the way of television of late. I've been wanting to cut down on our streaming subscriptions, and ABC/Disney cancelling Kimmel was a good excuse. Their bringing him back wasn't nearly enough for me to consider paying again for a service that we don't watch enough.

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2025/10/disney-to-officially-shut-down-hulu-after-20-years.html

Comments

[silveradept]

That doesn't surprise me. After all, Hulu was originally conceived of and operated as a partnership between Disney, Fox, and Paramount, I believe, but since everyone now believes they can charge premium dollar for access to just one of those networks' offerings, the partnership was bound to fall apart.

Greedy cusses.

[thewayne]

I did not know that it was originally formed by a troika, interesting!  I know some people were quite fond of it, but we never subscribed until a few months ago when my wife wanted to check out Only Murders In The Building.

[silveradept]

It was actually NewsCorp and NBCUniversal, but Disney bought in and eventually bought enough to push NBC out when it acquired Fox, then bought out Warner and Comcast's stakes.

It's been solely Disney since 2023.