Fandango, mostly known for its ticketing service on the web and for mobile devices for cinema viewings, has also been creating its own TV shows. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday last week, their service announced that its TV shows will soon, in the coming months hopefully, be showing on the Internet streaming service Hulu on a dedicated channel.

This is Fandango’s first partnership with an on-demand video streaming service that runs on subscriptions.

Fandango’s movie focused shows will be featured on a new channel on Hulu. The awards-focused interview show called Frontrunners will also be included. Within the first three months of 2015, the new channel is scheduled to go live. It is not only available to paying subscribers, but to anyone who visits Hulu’s site.

The vice president of business development and strategy, Mark Young, said that this is the next step in the company’s strategy to create videos that can be played on “any form factor or platform”.

“Our goal is to be wherever there’s conversations about movies, with partners that have scale and are in the right context,” he said.

Fandango could strike similar deals with other similar Internet TV streaming services. Since Hulu is largely about TV discovery, Young said it makes sense for Hulu to be a starting point. Fandango is owned by NBCUniversal which also backs Hulu.

Young said that by creating shows Fandango can move beyond being a simple utility. It gives certain benefits as it leads people to buy movie tickets from the company and helps bring in some money from ads.

Fandango say that views of original video content on the service has increased by 38 percent year-over-year.
So even though that is a really impressive growth figure, this new strategy might be paying of, and with new partnerships they might increase the views even more.

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The canceled TV show Selfie has found a new home on streaming powerhouse Hulu.

Emily Kapnek, Selfie‘s creator and show-runner, announced on Monday that the remaining six unaired episodes will be available for streaming on Hulu.

The Warner Bros. Television comedy was canceled in November, with its seventh episode last broadcasting on the 11th. The show starred Karen Gillan and John Cho.

Kapnek took to twitter to inform fans that the first of the six unaired episodes will be released on Tuesday on Hulu, Hulu Plus and ABC.com. For the next five weeks, the remaining episodes will release, one for every week.

Selfie and Manhattan Love Story were part of an hour-long spot of romantic comedies on ABC. Both were cancelled with the latter being axed first.

Selfie opened up to a mediocre 5.3 million viewers and a 1.6 rating among adults 18-49. In the weeks that followed, the series failed to keep the attention of its few viewers, whose number shed by the week.

After Manhattan Love Story got the ax, ABC gave Selfie a bigger shot and  doubled its originals on election night.

Hulu has been known for picking up unaired episodes of an ABC cancelled series before. In April 2013, Hulu gave James Van Der Beek and Krysten Ritter’s Apartment 23 a new home.

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While Netflix’s recent surge of content acquisition has been comparatively frantic when put against past industry developments, one of their closest rivals, Hulu have been decidedly more relaxed over the idea of original content, stopping off only the odd few times to pick up something new that they like, such as Casual.

Following on from a pick-up of an adaptation to Stephen King time-travel novel 11/23/63, the planned new single-camera comedy is to begin production this year with their new full season order commissioned this week.

The series comes from the mind of Jason Reitman (Juno, Men Women & Children), who has laid out a story that looks to delve into ‘the complications of the family dynamic’. The premise will see a bachelor and his divorced sister living under the same roof whilst raising the latter’s teenage child, with the pair offering each other support and guidance in re-entering the dating game after their respective troubles.

Viewers in 2015 will be able to see 10 episodes of the show when it is launched, with Reitman confirmed as the director of the pilot. He will be teaming up with Zander Lehmann as a co-writer for the format. Lionsgate TV will produce the series, following on from their work on Hulu breakout series Deadbeat.

Reitman summarised the project, stating, “I’ve long looked for the right first step into episodic storytelling. In Zander Lehmann, I have found the perfect collaborator. His writing is hilarious and provocative.”

Head of content for Hulu who have just renewed a content deal with Viacom, Craig Erwich said, “Jason Reitman uniquely blends comedy and drama in a way that touches the human spirit. We are honored to work with him to bring the next distinctive voice, Zander Lehmann, to television.”

Well not quite television, but definitions don’t really matter all that much when the show itself has a name like, well…

Hulu have teamed up with Viacom to bring thousands of classic cartoons from the 1990’s. Hulu Kids can now enjoy watching shows such as The Ren & Stimpy Show, Drake & Josh, Invader Zim, Hey Arnold!, amongst others.

The ongoing deal which started back in 2012 will also offer programming from other Viacom networks such as Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, TVLand, Spike, BET, and Logo bringing shows such as Catfish, Key & Peele, Drunk History, Inside Amy Schumer, 16 & Pregnant, Snooki & JWoww, Workaholics, Hot in Cleavland, and Faking It amongst others.

Speaking for Hulu, senior vice president and head of content, Craig Erwich said, “Today, I am excited to share the news that we are extending our partnership with Viacom—to continue bringing thousands of episodes from some of Viacom’s most popular series and a selection of kids content to Hulu.”

Hulu will also be offering a number of Latino kid’s content available in the Spanish language such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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The Hulu Plus app for iOS has had an update, and the new v4.0 comes with a re-design and compatibility with the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and also now lets users sign up from within the app.

Due to Apple’s policy toward any app created for their devices, they take a 30% cut of any in-app purchase. This did not go down well with Hulu who refused to play ball, resulting in no-one being able to sign up for a Hulu Plus account from within the app.

This inconvenience meant that potential subscribers had to sign up on a PC and then go back to the app. But Hulu have decided to make the 4.0 update user friendly and give Apple the $2.40 commission from the initial $8 earned for every Hulu Plus sign-up.

The new version 4.0 of Hulu Plus also comes with other improvements that includes a cleaner home screen, a tidier video player screen that has caption controls and a send to Chromecast icon.

The change in Hulu policy for it’s iOS mobile app may be because although they will lose a chunk of cash to Apple, mobile TV is a rapidly growing sector of the streaming market, plus they still insist on showing ads even to paying subscribers, so the more viewers they have, the higher they can charge.

The news also comes shortly after Hulu released an Android app that offers free selected full-length episodes to users as an attempt to turn them into subscribers. Although Hulu’s iPhone app does not currently offer this free content, it will probably be coming soon.