With Nickelodeon bringing back 17 classic ’90s shows to their own network beginning this week, the incredibly popular shows Doug, Rugrats, and many more will soon be available on the streaming network Hulu.
TeenNick’s new The Splat ’90s shows airing each night have many fans excited about seeing some of their favorite shows they grew up watching back on television. In addition to adding the content back to their channel, Nickelodeon is giving exclusive rights to some shows to Hulu.
A launch date for Doug and Rugrats wasn’t announced today.
While we wish it would have been Netflix (no offense, Hulu), it’s exciting to see that Nickelodeon has realized it has a massive backlog of ’90s shows that would most likely do very well with a crowd that is currently enjoying their ’90s nostalgia.
Doug and Rugrats will be available for streaming on Hulu, which might be more exciting than the recent TeenNick announcement, as fans of the shows can binge on entire seasons of their favorite childhood shows.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sanjay and Craig, Breadwinners, and a few more Nickelodeon shows will be available on Hulu, but we imagine Doug and Rugrats will be the most popular for Hulu users looking for a bit of ’90s nostalgia.
For those unfamiliar with Hulu’s pay streaming, which is similar to Netflix’s, it gives viewers loads of exclusive content, which includes Viacom’s shows on Comedy Central, MTV, and now Nickelodeon for $7.99 per month with limited commercials and $11.99 per month with no commercials.
It’s a bit pricier than Netflix. We have to be honest: They haven’t reached the original success that Netflix has (yet), but this is the way of the future for streaming content.
If you want to binge watch every season of Doug or Rugrats, using Hulu is the only way you’ll be able to enjoy the popular ’90s shows other than watching a few at a time whenever they show them on TeenNick’s newly announced The Splat.
While it’s disappointing to see shows and movies split on so many different streaming services, it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing everything we want to watch in one place for quite some time for online streaming.
At least more content is becoming available on-demand, and hopefully it leads to higher quality shows, where Netflix has seen such success with in the last few years. We’ve included a portion of the official press release below:
“SANTA MONICA, CA (October 06, 2015) – Hulu and Viacom today announced a renewal and expansion of their content partnership that grants Hulu the exclusive subscription video on-demand rights to selected top-rated series from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV. The deal continues their existing relationship under which full episodes of late night shows including The Daily Show with Trevor Noah are available to stream on Hulu the day after airing on linear broadcast, and current seasons of selected shows from Viacom’s media networks remain available to stream on delay after airing on linear broadcast. All Viacom series will be available to stream on Hulu with a subscription for $7.99 per month with limited commercials and $11.99 per month with no commercials.
“Starting today, the multi-year agreement makes Hulu the exclusive SVOD home to past seasons and future seasons of certain popular titles from Comedy Central including Emmy® Award-winning comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, Broad City, Drunk History and Key & Peele, as well as MTV hits Faking It and Finding Carter. Additional seasons of Workaholics, Awkward and Catfish: The TV Show are also now available to stream on Hulu.”