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Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu’s thoughts about the future of TV. We are extremely happy to announce a broad content agreement between Viacom and Hulu that brings The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to Hulu and now also to Hulu Plus, beginning this morning. Each of the shows will be available the morning after they originally air. As part of the agreement, a selection of great current programming from MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, TV Land, BET and other Viacom channel brands will also be added to Hulu Plus.

Each episode of leading shows like Jersey Shore, Teen Mom 2, and Tosh.0 will be available starting 21 days after their on-air premiere, and all episodes will remain on the service through the end of their respective season. Welcome to Hulu Plus, Snooki. In the coming weeks on Hulu Plus, we also will be adding more than 2,000 episodes of shows from Viacom’s library including Chappelle’s Show,The Hills, Reno 911, and many more. Jason Kilar CEO Hulujason@hulu.com The Hulu team is often asked about our thoughts on the future of TV. The future of TV. 1. Hulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies.

It’s an unseasonably warm summer day, and Jason Kilar is “in the zone,” as he puts it, buzzing around his Santa Monica, California, headquarters, putting the final touches on a massive redesign of Hulu, the streaming TV and movie service he runs. Despite the heat, and despite a deadline that is only weeks away, the boyish 41-year-old CEO looks calm and collected. (He always looks this way, actually.) He’s dressed in his uniform of jeans and a dark blue T-shirt peeking out from under an über-starched button-down, and his thick turf of hair is cut in what looks like a $17 mow from Fantastic Sam’s. As he natters on about the new site, walking me through its tray-style layout and a feature that lets you pick up exactly where you last left off watching a show, it’s easy to see why people liken him to a grown-up Boy Scout.

The prevailing wisdom in business is that it’s best to disrupt yourself before someone else comes along to do it for you. I’d like to. And he was successful. Hulu Owners Prepare To Overhaul Site, Jason Kilar May Leave - Peter Kafka - Media. Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com So, yes. It certainly appears that Jason Kilar will be leaving Hulu soon. Of course, it has appeared that way for a long time.

And he’s still there. But Variety’s excellent story (registration required), sparked by an internal memo laying out scenarios for the video site’s future, now pegs his likely exit date to September. Once that’s finally done — those wheels have formally been in motion since April, when investor Providence Equity got its own cash-out deal lined up — it’s hard to imagine Kilar staying, though he could if he wanted to.

I’ve asked around, and both on and off the record, sources on all sides say that no one has made any decisions about anything. But, one day, Franco-style, Kilar will leave. The bigger news in the Variety story is the rest of the stuff in the memo, which is about the future of Hulu itself, regardless of who runs it. There are a bunch of reasons for that, but the basic one is that it’s not 2008 anymore.