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  • Hulu Original ‘Deadbeat’ Heads To DVD

    Hulu Original ‘Deadbeat’ Heads To DVD

    They don’t get as much media attention as Netflix’s, but Hulu has original shows too. One of them, Deadbeat, is reportedly heading to DVD later this summer.

    The official description from Hulu is as follows:

    Deadbeat is an all new original comedy series. Kevin Pacalioglu (series star Tyler Labine) may have no money and no clue, but he can see dead people, so that’s pretty cool. Faced with a constant stream of stubborn spirits, Pac goes to whatever lengths require the least amount of effort to help New York City’s most frivolous ghosts finish their unfinished business.

    John Squires at DreadCentral shares a snippet from the press release, which gives the series an August 26th DVD (plus digital) release from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

    The DVD will be available exclusively at Target for about $20, and will come with three bonus featurettes: “Meet Camomile and Sue,” “Meet Pac and Roofie,” and “Medium for Hire – What Is Deadbeat?”.

    You can of course watch the show on Hulu itself. Episodes 1-10 are available for free here.

    Image via Hulu

  • Amazon And Hulu Have New Original Shows In The Works

    Amazon And Hulu Have New Original Shows In The Works

    While Netflix has received a lot of attention for its original shows throughout the year (including fourteen Emmy nominations and a much talked-about speech from Kevin Spacey last week), don’t forget, it’s online streaming competitors are gearing up to offer more original content as well.

    Two of those competitors – Amazon and Hulu – both have new projects in the news today.

    Amazon announced that it is greenlighting a pilot for a new original children’s series called Maker Shack Agency, which is being produced by Electus Studios. Here’s how Amazon describes it:

    Maker Shack Agency follows the exploits of 13-year-old inventor Angus Wolfe, aka “Wolfie,” and his two best friends and fellow “makers,” Jo and Merle, in the hardscrabble town of Akron, Ohio. These three teenage thinkers and tinkerers use all the branches of science and personal ingenuity to solve their client’s problems by making a new invention every episode. Together, they make people’s lives better by coming up with science and technology-inspired inventions for their various problems.

    Deadline reports that Hulu and Lionsgate have teamed up on a thirty-minute comedy series called Deadbeat. It comes from co-creators Cody Heller and Brett Konner, as well as Lionsgate TV and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. Hulu reportedly ordered ten episodes, and it will debut next year on both Hulu and Hulu Plus.

    Deadbeat is apparently about a medium who helps ghosts settle unfinished business.

    Image: Amazon Studios