HULU EXPANDS ORIGINALS SLATE AND ANNOUNCES NEW CONTENT DEALS AT TELEVISION CRITICS ASSOCIATION PRESS TOUR

Today at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Hulu announced a couple shows:

Catch-22 – A new order for Limited Series. Based on the seminal 50 year old Novel Catch-22, will release as a Six-Part Hulu Original Series. George Clooney will portray Colonel Cathcart, and will direct the series alongside his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov. The series will go into production in 2018.

Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian, a US Air Force bombardier in World War II who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid his military assignments, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specifies that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers which are real and immediate is the process of a rational mind; a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but a request to be removed from duty is evidence of sanity and therefore makes him ineligible to be relieved from duty.

ER – Streaming debut on Hulu today. All 15 Seasons of Emmy Award-winning and Fan Favorite Series, 331 episodes, are now streaming.

Since its premiere in 1994, ER has gone on to become the most-nominated drama in Emmy® Award history. The iconic series also helped launch the careers of actors such as George Clooney, Noah Wyle and Julianna Margulies. The show follows the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital in Chicago and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history, and has won a total of 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. ER has received a total of 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most-nominated drama series in history.

The Handmaid’s Tale – Season 2 will premiere on April 25th with two new episodes, and subsequent episodes released every Wednesday only on Hulu. The 13-episode second season will be shaped by Offred’s pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead.

March of The Penguins 2: The Next Step – Coming to Hulu Documentary slate. On March 23rd, Hulu will present the sequel to one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. After its theatrical release in 2005, March of the Penguins went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Filmmaker Luc Jacquet and narrator Morgan Freeman will return to the Antarctic to revisit the Emperor Penguins who call the frozen continent home.

Jacquet spent two months shooting in the Antarctic winter using the new technology of 4K cameras, airborne drones, and under-ice diving to show the astonishing lives of these mysterious creatures in an entirely new light. March of the Penguins 2 tells the story of two penguins, a father and son, as they face and overcome the almost unimaginable challenges of life in this hostile land.

National Treasure: Kiri – A second installment of National Treasure. All four parts will premiere on April 4th. After its record-breaking debut on Channel 4 in the UK, season two “Kiri” will make its US-debut only on Hulu. The new season will unfold around the abduction of a young black girl, named Kiri, who is soon-to-be-adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety that follow.

Casual – The fourth and final season will premiere on July 31st. Since its premiere in 2015, Casual has gone on to become the first Golden Globe nominated original series for Hulu, and has earned acclaim from fans and critics alike.

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