Hulu did, however, get a boon last month with its new drama “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Though streaming services do not release viewership<br />figures — making it difficult to know if a show is broadly popular — the show has received nearly universal praise from critics.<br />Hulu has been ramping up its original programming slate — Jeff Daniels<br />and Alec Baldwin have signed up for its “Looming Tower” project about Sept. 11 and Stephen King and J. J. Abrams are teaming up for an anthology series — just as it introduced a live TV service a week ago<br />Hulu Names Its First Chief Content Officer -<br />By JOHN KOBLINMAY 10, 2017<br />Hulu announced on Wednesday that Joel Stillerman, AMC’s longtime head of programming,<br />would become the streaming service’s first chief content officer.<br />Hulu is owned by several media companies — Comcast, 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney each have a stake — and several entertainment executives noted<br />that its unusual ownership structure made this new job a bit tricky to sell.<br />He was involved with the later seasons of “Mad Men”<br />and “Breaking Bad” and then helped the network make the transition to a new era by bringing hits like “The Walking Dead,” “Better Call Saul” and “Into the Badlands” to life.
