Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNBCUniversal is clawing back streaming rights for its current-season TV shows from Hulu — in order to keep them for its own Peacock service.
The Comcast-owned programmer officially terminated its next-day TV streaming deal with Hulu, which is majority-owned by Disney.An NBCU rep confirmed that the Hulu agreement has been terminated.
Reps for Disney did not respond to requests for comment.The change will not go into effect until the next broadcast TV season, starting in late September for next-day and library content.With the change, new episodes of NBCU shows such as “Saturday Night Live,” “The Voice” and “Law & Order: Organized Crime” — along with the rest of NBC’s broadcast and cable lineup for the 2022-23 season — will no longer be available on Hulu.
That said, a wide selection of many popular NBCU titles will remain on Hulu. For example, Hulu will continue to have rights to NBCU’s catalog content for several more years, including “Law & Order: SVU,” “This Is Us,” “The Mindy Project,” “30 Rock,” “Parenthood,” “Friday Night Lights” and “Will & Grace.” In December, Hulu added two new international series from NBCU, “Bloods” and “Creamerie.”More to come.
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