‘Alaska Daily’ & ‘The Company You Keep’ To Be Removed Early From Hulu As Streamer Pulls Off More Licensed Series As Part Of Billion Dollar Write-Down
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Hulu is joining the latest round of programming purges. The streamer is pulling off a number of additional series from its service as part of Disney’s wider plan to cut streaming costs.
The company revealed last month in an SEC filing that it would take between $1.5B and $1.8B in write-downs associated with removing streaming programming from its platforms and expects to remove from more its direct-to-consumer platforms in the third quarter with another $400M in impairment charges.
Deadline can now reveal some of those titles. They include Alaska Daily andThe Company You Keep, which were both canceled at ABC after one season.
Both shows would normally have stayed on the service until September, or later if Hulu had struck a longer deal, but are to be removed earlier next month.
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