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.