MasterChef

Yah , getting tired of the same old searching and clicking   See 1 other reply

Right now free TV is nothing but reality shows, news, and procedural and medical dramas that get canceled after the first few episodes anyway. Big companies will continue to try to find ways to screw their customers while providing poor qualities, and customers will continue to do their best to get what they want, by legal means if they can or illegal means when the big companies give them no convenient alternative.   See 1 other reply

For the record, I still think that it was incredibly shady for Hulu to neglect to inform us in the availability section on the page of the 8-day wait; instead implying that you must get Hulu+ if you are to continue to watch the show.But given that the episodes did eventually become free, I also still stand by what I have said elsewhere in this show's discussion forums - having to wait 8 days for free content, is NOT a terrible hardship.   See 6 other replies

Here's what I posted:
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This is a bit of an old request; I've been sitting on it for a couple of weeks, stewing.
A couple of weeks ago, one of my shows, "MasterChef," which is a reality competition show, suddenly, with no warning and no explanation, appeared to switch from being free, to being Hulu+ only. This was 16 episodes into the series, when watchers were invested in the show.
Needless to say, there was much anger. The words, "bait and switch" were used a great deal, and it's not difficult to see why.
After about a week of this, I noticed that a previously-Hulu+-only episode became free. So I went into the message boards and started informing people that, rather than giving us a 16-episode tease and then saying, "oops, if you want to finish the season, you have to pay!" (bait and switch), we'd instead gone to a system where there is an 8-day wait for new episodes to be available to free users.
While the 16-episode tease before a sudden policy change was very bad PR by itself, I understand that this is somewhat out of Hulu's hands. That's not my gripe.
My gripe: explaining that the new episodes would be available after 8 days (after discovering that fact purely by chance) should not have been my job! When the policy changed, the description of the show should have been immediately changed as well, to explain that episodes are available immediately for Hulu+ users, and available after 8 days for free users. There should have been some explanation of that, from Hulu, somewhere. And there wasn't. Please fix this policy in the future; it's extremely bad PR.
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Well, speaking as probably the main person who was posting #5 on that list....Yes, I did post everywhere I could, that there was an 8-day wait before the shows become free. Mainly so people wouldn't continue to think that the shows had suddenly become hulu-plus only.And then I posted this in Hulu's general discussion boards:
(stupid... they don't offer direct links to threads. Ok: here's the link to the forum:
http://www.hulu.com/discussions/1
At the moment, the thread I'm referring to is on page 3, with the last post date being August 29, 2011. It's entitled, "Hulu: please better explanation of service changes.")I'll quote it in a reply to this post. Please read, and then tell me if you still think I'm being compensated by Hulu in any way. :)   See 6 other replies