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There's sad news for Coronation Street fans in America who are no longer able to watch their favourite show via Hulu.
With thanks to Corrie fan Flo in the USA for alerting us to this. It appears that Hulu is not showing any more new episodes of Coronation Street.
The Hulu.com website for Coronation Street states: "New episodes will be unavailable as of April 7th, 2016" .
Hulu has been showing Coronation Street in the USA since 2013. Fans have taken to social media to complain but as yet, there is no statement on the Hulu website to say if Coronation Street will be back in the US, or not.
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Please please please - if you are in the US and watching Corrie on something other than Hulu, do not mention where as that will be the next to go. Hulu is the third or fourth place to be warned to pull Corrie from their channel due to copyright infringement.
ReplyDeleteHulu paid ITV for the rights but based on the feedback I've seen from Hulu, the negotiated fee may have been higher than Hulu was willing to pay and make it a profitable property to carry. No copyright infringement here, sounds more like ITV wanted more than Hulu thought it was worth.
DeleteRumor has it that part of the problem is due to a negotiation currently going on between ITV and the BBC in regards to starting a subscription service. Hopeful it will turn up there along with additional UK programming, I would love that. But not holding my breath as it is just a rumor with no additional details.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Anonymous is right, please do not discuss other options here as to watching alternatives. I started out watching on YouTube since there were no other options until it started on Hulu, but ITV has made darned sure that is no longer available there as well, yanking episodes as fast as someone puts them up.
Hulu has done the same with Hollyoaks as well, leaving that group of fans high and dry, which makes me think this was an issue with ITV. I feel Hulu handled this horribly, it was very sudden with no advance warning. I for one will never subscribe to their service just because of how they handled this. They won't even answer questions about it, just telling everyone to make sure to add it to their "favorites".
Glad I don't live in America then!
ReplyDeleteWhew, and I was angry that CBC had moved the show for the Stanley Cup Playoffs!
ReplyDeleteOnce again I am very glad I don't live in America!
As a British expatriate living in California, I was enjoying Corra on Hulu for a couple of years until it all got bogged down with the eternal Callum plot. I've found myself not bothering with it for a few months now, but it would be nice to still have the option. I'm hoping to move back to the UK within the next year. It remains to be seen whether or not I'll reconnect with Corra.
ReplyDeleteOh, I am bereft!! I used to watch it on the CBC from Western New York, missed it for years when I moved away, and was thrilled to be able to watch it again through Hulu! So unfair!
ReplyDeleteBeing a Canadian and hearing what is going on down there with LGBT in certain states recently and the evangelical influence throughout the entire country I am not surprised to hear this at all. If we watch a program that has come from the states every naughty word is beeped and even a baby's bum is blanked out so no one can see such a terrible thing. US censoring is absolutely ridiculous. This does not happen with British or Australian or South Africa programming only stuff that comes from the states. So the fact that there are two lesbians and two gays on C street what can you expect.
ReplyDeleteI could be totally wrong but their entire country is going bug shit. Also we can not get Hulu in Canada so I am not sure what the censoring is like on that network. So the rumour of negotiations between BBC and ITV does not ring true to me at all.
Here's an article about the talks:
ReplyDeletehttp://informitv.com/2016/03/10/bbc-and-itv-in-online-video-talks/
There are several other articles about it as well.
As far as censorship, your information is wrong. You make it sound like we are all bat crap crazy conservatives. Sorry, but no. Only certain channels do that, and it's been like that FOR YEARS. It's not really any different than what they do in the UK during what is known as "watershed". We also have many lesbian and gay story lines on shows here. One of the biggest talk show hosts in this country is a very open lesbian, and her show is on 5 days a week. It is also hugely popular and has been on for quite a while. Your assumption is horribly inaccurate.
Then how do you explain Modern Family being the number one comedy show with a gay couple on regular network Prime time TV? Or Shades of Gray featuring gay sex scenes not blanked out, or the very popular lesbian love stories on Grey's Anatomy? The US has plenty of gay friendly shows. Ellen is still number one for daytime. And when you get into cable shows, there is an even bigger presence.
ReplyDeleteMaking broad generalizations about an ENTIRE country going bug shit just gives people the wrong impression. Do you honestly think that Canada does not have it's share of anti-gay issues. I live in the Gayborhood in Toronto and let me tell you...YES, it does.
The Hulu Corrie debacle has nothing to do with homesexuality but as always...it is about MONEY.
Have you ever seen the male couple on modern family kiss? All the other couples do. All the other couples are shown as normal sexual couples; not the gay couple, though. They show very little affection, and no sexual involvement. So the fact that a gay couple is included means nothing if they're not shown having a typical married relationship.
DeleteWell no longer going to be subscribing to Hulu then and will for sure let them know this is the reason why! This makes me so upset!
ReplyDeleteLynne from Ottawa -- CBC.CA has episodes of Corrie. I don't know if it's accessible to people from the US -- maybe worth a try.
ReplyDeleteClicking on the viewer makes it go black and says, "This content is currently unavailable"
ReplyDeleteIs there not a legal way to pay for access to a UK Internet hub that can then legally take you to ITV to watch Corrie?
ReplyDeletefilmon.com will get you corrie live and all terrestrial channels - if you don't want to wake uр at 'stuрid o'clock' in the morning to watch it on ITV, then try ITV2 the next day :)
ReplyDeleteI think Hulu may have "cut their nose off to spite their face" with this one. Seems as though plenty of people are finding other ways to watch AND those who were paying customers are cancelling their subscriptions over it. Bad business move on someone's part. This is becoming an increasing issue with streaming services, shows there one day and gone the next. That's why I didn't renew Amazon Prime.
ReplyDeleteFirst they stopped Neighbours and Home and Away now this. Both Hulu and the original producers should have done more to promote these shows. I watched Corrie for many years thru illegitimate methods but I happily paid Hulu to watch foreign sopas here in America. The only reason I signed up for Hulu was to watch foreign content. Without any new foreign content HUlu is useless to me.
ReplyDeleteLucky enough to be an American living on the Canadian border. Thank you Canadians for your excellent taste in British soaps. I've been considering moving for work, but where could I keep up with my Corrie obsession?
ReplyDeleteWe're about 2 weeks-ish behind now, but at one point it was more. I went to London and it was surreal to see 2 months ahead Corrie. I may have shouted "Turn it off! Turn it off!" a little too loudly :-)
I guess The Mirror should actually be crediting your source - Flo. They could just as easily have contacted Hulu themselves to obtain confirmation and not needed to cite you as a source at all. All for the all-mighty dollar (and ego).
ReplyDeleteI simply e-mailed the blog editor to make her aware of it and she chose to write the story. So no, the credit these other sources give does not go to me. She credited me in her article, and the other places who used her article as their source should be crediting Coronation Street Updates. Sure, they could contact Hulu (and some have) but Hulu and ITV are both choosing to remain silent. The simple fact that many of the ones corrected their article to give CSU credit acknowledges the fact that it was published here first.
ReplyDeleteFor those with an iPad, you can subscribe to a geo-blocker and then download he ITV Player app from the UK iTunes Store.
ReplyDeleteBothering to quite multiple people here...
ReplyDeletePlease please please - if you are in the US and watching Corrie on something other than Hulu, do not mention where as that will be the next to go. Hulu is the third or fourth place to be warned to pull Corrie from their channel due to copyright infringement.
I would think telling someone who may live in the northern US to see if they could pick it up from a nearby CBC station in Canada wouldn't be a bad idea, and I've done that for years. I still have that option but I can also watch it on cable too! Hopefully ITV doesn't ask for exhuberent payments from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or that could go away as well, but at least the CBC has kept it on the air for decades.
Hulu paid ITV for the rights but based on the feedback I've seen from Hulu, the negotiated fee may have been higher than Hulu was willing to pay and make it a profitable property to carry. No copyright infringement here, sounds more like ITV wanted more than Hulu thought it was worth.
Those in the anime community have probably heard that one too many times when it came to expensive licenses for shows or movies that were either that popular or not. These things never get straigten out.
Hulu has done the same with Hollyoaks as well, leaving that group of fans high and dry, which makes me think this was an issue with ITV. I feel Hulu handled this horribly, it was very sudden with no advance warning. I for one will never subscribe to their service just because of how they handled this. They won't even answer questions about it, just telling everyone to make sure to add it to their "favorites".
I never trusted sites like Hulu, Netflix or anyone else for my 'entertainment'.
Lynne from Ottawa -- CBC.CA has episodes of Corrie. I don't know if it's accessible to people from the US -- maybe worth a try.
Unknown you know how to use VPN/Proxy services, that's your only avenue.
First they stopped Neighbours and Home and Away now this. Both Hulu and the original producers should have done more to promote these shows. I watched Corrie for many years thru illegitimate methods but I happily paid Hulu to watch foreign sopas here in America. The only reason I signed up for Hulu was to watch foreign content. Without any new foreign content HUlu is useless to me.
I can see your point there, seems like sites like Crunchyroll are getting the people over simply due to the foreign or "Niche" offerings past the mainstream. As a kid, just being able to tune a TV to a station out of town or out of the country was fascating enough, and it wasn't illegit given the way that worked out (not like America would jam CBC's signals out of Windsor from being picked up locally on my cable dial). Those that live close to the border often got that second home for things past their local offerings I find.
Lucky enough to be an American living on the Canadian border. Thank you Canadians for your excellent taste in British soaps. I've been considering moving for work, but where could I keep up with my Corrie obsession?
We're about 2 weeks-ish behind now, but at one point it was more. I went to London and it was surreal to see 2 months ahead Corrie. I may have shouted "Turn it off! Turn it off!" a little too loudly :-)
There was a time when Canada was far behind the UK on the show, of course that goes back about 30-40 years ago. Reminded one time America did get it on cable TV through USA Network, but of course that probably didn't have quite a huge outreach either.
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/28/arts/coronation-street-comes-to-cable.html
For those with an iPad, you can subscribe to a geo-blocker and then download he ITV Player app from the UK iTunes Store.
There you go, end of story!