Hulu is a video and film hosting site by News Corp. and NBC, which was launched on March 12, 2008. Hulu streams shows from several US TV stations, including NBC, Fox, Bravo, and Sci-Fi, in a similar fashion to regular broadcast versions, including commercials. Hulu is only accessible in the United States. International users are blocked for licensing reasons. http://www.hulu.com/support/geofilter

Hulu contains full episodes and fragments of over 1,700 tv series, from nearly 190 leading content companies. TV series include popular choices like The Officehttp://www.hulu.com/the-office, Family Guy http://www.hulu.com/family-guy and 30 rock http://www.hulu.com/30-rock. Episodes are available on Hulu the morning after they air on US Television.http://www.hulu.com/about

Series can be sorted on popularity (both shows and episodes), date of availability, rating, or type of TV show. Other choices are "Coming Soon", Captions, Trailers, and Movies. The Hulu Labs section includes a number of applications, including Hulu Desktop, providing access to Hulu content without needing a browserhttp://www.hulu.com/movies

Hulu also provides specially themed collections, like 'Chuck Norris", several motor and auto show, "Basketball Madness", "British Comedies", The Oscars and Grammys, Celebrity Saturday Night Live hosts (like "Jennifer Aniston, Zach Galifianakis and Ashton Kutcher) and more.

Hulu provides the following Channels:

• Action and Adventure: Chuck, Babylon 5, Knight Rider, Heroes, Angel, Highlander
• Animation and Cartoons: Dance in the Vampire Bund
• Arts and Culture
• Automotive
• Comedy: The Office, 30 Rock, Saturday Night Live
• Drama: Flash Forward
• Family
• Food and Leisure
• Home and Garden
• Horror and Suspense
• Music
• News and Information
• Other
• Reality and Game Shows
• Science Fiction: Caprica
• Sports: Vegas on Demand
• Talks and Interview: E! News Now

To keep in the spirit of NCAA's Basketball March Madness, Hulu has organized a "Best in Show" competition, pitting the 32 best TV shows of Hulu against each other. Winners are announced each Monday, while the 'tournament' runs the entire month of march, reaching its with finals on April 5. The final eight series are"Community", "Parks and Recreation", "The Simposns", "Castle", "House", "Burn Notice", "Lost" and "Parenthood"http://www.hulu.com/spotlight/bestinshow