Can you watch Hulu in the UK? Where to watch new shows
How can UK viewers watch Hulu shows including The Kardashians and The Bear?
Hulu is a US-based streaming platform which boasts an array of impressive titles. From award-winning movies including The Whale and The Creator to TV shows including Family Guy, Grey’s Anatomy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
If that's not enough, Hulu has several original productions including the follow-up to Keeping Up with the Kardashians, simply titled The Kardashians, the nail-biting cooking drama The Bear and Emmy award-winning series The Handmaid's Tale.
Hulu is home to thousands more films and series but are you actually able to stream them in the UK? Can you subscribe to the American service from the UK and are some of Hulu's shows exclusive to the US? To help you work this out we've got this guide to Hulu where we'll explain all you need to know about how to watch Hulu in the UK.
What is Hulu?
Hulu is an American streaming service which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. It has thousands of series from top networks like NBC, ABC, and FOX. They also have their own Hulu originals which include the likes of The Great, Dopesick, and The Full Monty.
It’s one of the best and largest streaming platforms in the United States, with more than 40 million subscribers. It has an extensive library of around 2,500 films and more than 40,000 episodes from thousands of TV shows on its platform.
How to watch Hulu in the UK
There's both good and bad news on this front: the bad news is that Hulu is a US-based streaming platform, which isn’t available here in the UK.
The good news is that many movies and shows hosted on Hulu are broadcast to international audiences via Star, Disney Plus’s branch of more adult TV and film content.
Star on Disney Plus launched in territories outside of the US – including the UK – in February 2021, adding more mature content to the previously family-friendly service (complete with more parental controls).
This means a number of new shows hosted on Hulu in the US, such as The Kardashians, The Bear and The Full Monty are available as part of a Disney Plus subscription in the UK.
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Hulu price: does it cost extra to watch Hulu in the UK?
As you can't watch Hulu in the UK, it doesn't cost you extra. Instead, Hulu titles are often added to Disney Plus as part of Star. So, if you want to watch programmes like The Kardashians and The Bear, you'll have to subscribe to Disney Plus.
There are three plans available at Disney Plus: the Standard with Ads plan costs £4.99 a month, the Standard plan costs £7.99 a month and the Premium plan costs £10.99 a month.
You can also save 16% on both the Standard and Premium plans by snagging an annual subscription for £79.90 or £109.90 respectively.
The best thing is that you don’t have to do anything extra to get Star on Disney Plus as it’s all in one package.
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Are some Hulu shows exclusive to the US?
Yes. While Star and Hulu share a number of titles – including Hulu originals like Love, Victor – Hulu in the US still features a bigger library, including content licensed from third-party studios such as Paramount and MGM.
Meanwhile, Disney Plus add-on Star only features first-party titles that Disney has the rights to from its own studios, which comprise Hulu, ABC, FX, Freeform, 20th Television, 20th Century Studios, and Touchstone Pictures.
As a result, Star has a more limited line-up.
You can read more about Disney Plus and Star with our Disney Plus guide. Plus you can take a look at some of the best Disney Plus offers around.
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For more streaming content, check out some of the Radio Times tech guides, including how to watch HBO in the UK and how to watch ViaPlay.
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Molly Moss is a Trends Writer for Radio Times, covering the latest trends across TV, film and more. She has an MA in Newspaper Journalism and has previously written for publications including The Guardian, The Times and The Sun Online.
