Hulu, Netflix Schedule Originals to Reflect Usage

摘要

Within eight days of each other, Netflix and Hulu will premiere their first original scripted series in an effort to brand their services as destinations for premium programming, but each will do so with very different scheduling strategies. Today (Feb. 6), Netflix will drop all eight episodes of Lilyhammer, about a New York gangster in Norway starring The Sopranos' Steven Van Zandt. Hulu meanwhile debuts its own Battleground, a workplace comedy about a Wisconsin senate campaign, on Feb. 14, but it has chosen to roll out one new episode a week in a nod to traditional TV scheduling.