Hulu Plus Adds 14% More Programs

What does paying $9.99 for Hulu's premium service -- Hulu Plus -- give consumers? Apparently only 14% more TV episodes.

That comes to an extra 3,564 TV episodes on top of the 24,854 that are available from from the free Hulu.com service, per One Touch Intelligence. The research company says the entire Hulu site has a total of 991 TV series.

Many of the extra episodes are no longer on the air. For example, Hulu Plus has 52 episodes of ABC's "8 Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter"; Fox has 77 episodes of "Prison Break"; and NBC has 74 for "My Name is Earl." None of those shows are available on the regular Hulu site.

For current shows -- such as ABC's "Castle" for example -- Hulu Plus gives consumers access to 23 episodes, while the regular Hulu.com, gives consumers access to 5 "Castle" episodes. NBC's "30 Rock" has five episodes on Hulu versus the 75 on Hulu Plus. Fox's "House" has five episodes on Hulu and 21 on Hulu Plus.

Hulu Plus also has some current TV show episodes -- none of which are available on Hulu. This list includes ABC's "Modern Family"; Fox's "Master Chef" and NBC's "The Biggest Loser."

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Fox's "Bones" has among the most episodes of any current TV show running on the basic Hulu services: 10. On Hulu Plus, 27 "Bones" episodes are available.

One Touch says Hulu Plus has access to three networks, ABC, NBC and Fox (those three networks' parent companies are investors in Hulu), as well as 154 other TV content providers. One Touch says its Hulu Plus research was conducted Aug. 12-17.

Of the 14% of more TV episodes that are available, 66% or 2,349 TV episodes came from Hulu's three big broadcast network partners.

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  1. Douglas Ferguson from College of Charleston, August 27, 2010 at 10:07 a.m.

    Percentages don't matter. If the shows in the extra sliver are the MOST desirable (most recent) shows, then the price paid reflects the greater value of that final sliver, no matter how tiny it is. People pay for the premium sliver, not the rest of the pie that they deem ordinary and thus free.

  2. Jonathan Mirow from BroadbandVideo, Inc., August 31, 2010 at 1:21 p.m.

    Anybody got any early numbers on the adoption of Hulu as a pay service? I've got money riding on this one in Vegas.

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