Fix: Hulu Not Showing New Episodes

Hulu is a streaming platform that can be accessed through smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and the web, among other avenues. It offers on-demand content of...

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Last updated on February 7, 2024

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Hulu is a streaming platform that can be accessed through smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and the web, among other avenues. It offers on-demand content of recently aired shows and has more than 3,000 titles available. Unlike Netflix, which adds original content along with TV shows that have already aired on TV, Hulu focuses only on TV shows. Some of the most popular TV shows on Hulu include PEN15, The Great, Solar Opposites, Catch-22, and This Way Up, among others.

Some users have recently discovered that Hulu is not showing new episodes promptly. It appears that when a user is watching a particular TV series, new episodes are not added for an extended period of time. What could be causing this issue, and why aren’t the episodes updating on Hulu sooner?

Check for server status

Before moving into the obvious reasons why Hulu now showing new episodes could occur, it could be a server issue. Hulu has dedicated servers for video-on-demand and other services like updating the list of episodes, My Stuff, My Watchlist, etc. A server outage resulting from a huge spike in concurrent user base can spark issues or it could be server maintenance or failure issue.

In any case, you can go to DownDetector to check out the Hulu Server Status to verify if others are facing similar issues or not. You can also check out this website.

What you need to do is to add the said show on “My Stuff”. This is where Hulu will notify you when there’s a new episode available. Apart from that, Hulu published upcoming air dates for the shows that will air soon. You can track it via the Hulu website as well as the Hulu app so that you are familiar with the airing date for upcoming episodes and act accordingly.

The show is a part of rolling availability

Hulu offers a tonne of TV shows available albeit with different streaming rights. One of them is called rolling availability which phases out older episodes when new episodes are added to the list. In simple terms, if a TV show has aired 3 episodes and one more (which is the fourth one) is added to a specific season of the show (say The Wrong Man), the 3rd oldest episode will expire i.e. the first episode aired. This is referred to as rolling availability.

According to Hulu, you can add the show in “My Stuff” that alerts and notifies the users when a new episode is airing. Since Hulu will expire the oldest episode in the season when a new episode is added, you will be notified and thus, you would be able to watch it before it goes offline. Note that not all TV titles on Hulu are under rolling availability.

Wait

After knowing about rolling availability and hiatus, the one thing you can do is to wait for Hulu to update the episodes accordingly. This might take a few days but that’s worth it if you are sticking to shows that are only available on Hulu and not other platforms.

Find an alternative

As it goes, you will find some Hulu titles on other platforms and streaming websites on the internet. If you think Hulu is facing issues, you can stream it on other websites/apps.

Wrapping Up

That summarizes our take on How To Fix Hulu Not Showing New Episodes. Please let us know if you have faced a similar issue and how it was fixed.

Fix: Hulu Not Showing New Episodes

Check for server status

Update the app

The show is on hiatus

The show is a part of rolling availability

Wait

Find an alternative

Wrapping Up

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