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Hulu revealed three new projects slated for the service this fall and winter, dropping trailers for psychological thriller Chance, crime drama Shut Eye and Triumph’s Summer Election Special 2016 —as The Mindy Project’s Mindy Kaling weighed in how the series switch from Fox to Hulu has led to significantly less stress.
“The single best improvement in my life is not working for people who are not having the forefront of our concern be the number of people who are watching,” she told reporters Friday during the Television Critics Association summer press tour.
The creative freedom granted by Hulu allows her and showrunner Matt Warburton to take storytelling risks and find new ways to explore, with Warburton calling the reduced pressure over viewership “a relief.”
Hulu SVP Head of Content Craig Erwich said it allowed the fourth season, which wrapped up in July, to go in a darker direction that it had previously.
“That would be a real conversation at Fox, but Hulu has been totally supportive,” Warburton said.
Season five premieres October 4.
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Hulu also released a teaser for Chance, starring Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Mol. In the series based on the novel by Kem Nunn, Laurie (House) returns to the medical field as Dr. Eldon Chance, a San Francisco-based neuropsychiatrist who gets sucked into a dangerous situation involving mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness.
In comparing the series to his previous genus doctor role, Laurie called the series “massively different,” during a TCA panel.
Chance premieres October 19.
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Hulu also posted a teaser for Shut Eye, while executive producers David Hudgins and Les Bohem, also the creator, gave away little about the new show about a professional Los Angeles psychic, ahem, con artist, and the criminal families behind the business. Stars Jeffrey Donovan and Kadee Strickland were also on hand to discuss the series.
Bohem said he was inspired by those places LA “that can’t possibly make the rent with $40 palm readings,” and highlighted the surprising victims: white collar, educated people.
Strickland said she loves the dynamic of how her character Linda and Charlie “operate and prey” on their victims who walk into a psychic shop with $40—or $250.
“What it is that we have … an instinct, that we need to believe in something,” she said.
The series, which premieres Wednesday, December 7, also stars Susan Misner, Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Zayas, Isabella Rossellini, and Angus Sampson.
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Hulu also set a premiere date of Thursday, August 11 for Triumph’s Summer Election Special 2016, a follow up to the election special featuring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog that aired during the primaries in February.
The latest edition, thanks to an expanded partnership with Funny Or Die, provides continuing coverage of the Presidential campaign, including the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
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