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THE ORVILLE Season Three...

^^ Hulu Original Series have been (so far) 'one-a-week' releases. Going to be more like the CBSAA model.
One exception being Marvel's Runaways season 2, which dropped all in the same day. So, I guess the actual answer to the question would be "a little from column A and a little from column b".
 
A lot of people would like to see the entire season released at once, to binge on as that does seem to be a new habit nowadays - especially for serialized shows. If ratings aren't good we all know the show will be dropped like a Latchcomb but not passed like a hot potato, though the ratings for modern day television were ultimately respectable despite season 2's opener's plummet.



I was always planning to check Hulu out once the show is put out to view. The narrator's too-crisp voice sounds like he's fresh off a B-grade fantasy, helped by appropriate backing muzak.

The real news starts at 2:10 in. By 4 minutes in one can guess adequately that the amount of ads would not be enough to sustain the show, so they'll put it behind the paywall where we still get the same amount of episodes, which may or may not run as long, and will have commercials for lower-tier subscriptions. It's not that much of a change when all is said and done. We already pay for any shows with commercials when we buy the sponsors' products. Television has never been directly or indirectly completely free (nor do we pay for all of it). Then again, Hulu's library section has the low-ad and no-ad tiers. To get at the fresh new content, there's only one tier ("Hulu + Live TV) and it costs a little bit more per month and might be worth it if one show is so good or if there are enough shows to really dig into, time prevailing. As yet we don't know where the new Orville will be on, I'm just guessing it will be in the "Live TV" section. Then again, even some shows in the top-most tier still have ads - like SHIELD, Gray's Anatomy... Nothing esoteric about any of this, their website as of 19 August 2018 lays it out and it's all subject to change. It takes less time to write articles than to make pied piper videos anyway.
It's not going be in the Live TV section, all of their original series are available to all tiers. Whether or not something is in the Live TV stuff is based on the network it's on.
 
The old contracts are probably null?

Look at preexisting relationships.

Hulu makes Harlots with ITV, where it airs on ITV Encore.
 
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^ But it's the studio that owns and produces the show, that's responsible for selling it to various outlets beyond the originating country. And those contracts shouldn't be nullified because the show gets shunted from one network to another at home.
 
If Hulu bought the global distribution rights, then they have the global distribution rights

TV and streaming used to be different, but they seem more muddled up now.
 
Bah, the good guys didn't win, the tax payers of CA took another wallop so a show could have a third season. If those tax breaks people always complain about when other companies get them, hadn't happened, there wouldn't be a third season. That break was one Twinkie so big not even Ed and Gordon could split it.

Sure, a new reason to be pissed off, but there's nothing to be done about it now -- show's going on.
They would have spent it on paper straws and vintage clothing. This is money better used. Jason
 
For those of you still on the fence about the move to hulu:

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Hmm, wonder if these guys were among the Orville fans who dogged DSC for not being "good" enough to warrant a spot on CBS's network schedule.

And ironically, most of the reasons they're listing as to why the move to streaming is a good thing for Orv, are the same reasons DSC fans listed as to why streaming was a good thing for Star Trek.

For any Orv fans who are reluctant to buy Hulu, I highly recommend it. I love that Trek is on a streaming service. No worrying about weekly ratings or how other shows in the same time slot are doing.

But what's really going to be funny is watching all the Orv fans who used to trash the Parrot streaming ratings (that always showed DSC doing well}, suddenly find them oh so credible now -- I mean assuming Orv does okay on Hulu.

On behalf of DSC fans, may I say,"told ja". :)
 
Hmm, wonder if these guys were among the Orville fans who dogged DSC for not being "good" enough to warrant a spot on CBS's network schedule.

Couldn't tell ya.

And ironically, most of the reasons they're listing as to why the move to streaming is a good thing for Orv, are the same reasons DSC fans listed as to why streaming was a good thing for Star Trek.

Yes, now if only CBS was making Star Trek instead of Discovery...

But what's really going to be funny is watching all the Orv fans who used to trash the Parrot streaming ratings (that always showed DSC doing well}, suddenly find them oh so credible now -- I mean assuming Orv does okay on Hulu.

I'm sure it will do fine. You know...cause it's actually good.

On behalf of DSC fans, may I say,"told ja". :)

On behalf of Orville fans who already subscribed to Hulu before this news, we didn't need your input.
 
From their releases so far, it seems like the intent is Disney+ is Disney Family, Hulu is Disney Adult.

Yes, but Hulu is a U.S. based only network. Outside of the U.S. shows that air on Hulu, air either on local television stations or local streaming services.
 
This will proably change now that Disney owns Hulu. Jason
If it does, it means that Hulu would move to the Netflix model where shows change depending on your country. When I was in Africa, even some Netflix originals were not available because the distribution rights were owned locally.
 
I just found out that Halston Sage got a new gig, she's the main character's sister in the new Fox mystery series, Prodigal Son.
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Looks like the third issue of Orville has appeared. Like the first two, the art is great and the dialogue all rings true. In this one, the story concerns some unexpected side effects of that information brought back by Ed and Gordon from the Krill ship.
 
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