PaleyFest Links Up with Hulu

BEVERLY HILLS: Hulu has signed on as a partner for The Paley Center for Media’s PaleyFest 2012, for which it will stream full-length content and short-form clips of nine panels.

Hulu will stream PaleyFest panels featuring the casts of Community, Once Upon a Time, New Girl, The Office, Bones, Castle, The Vampire Diaries, Revenge and Modern Family. The streams will be available exclusively on demand on the free, ad-supported Hulu and the Hulu Plus subscription service. The two-week PaleyFest event is set for March 2 to 14 in Beverly Hills, with Hulu starting to stream content as of March 15.

“We are delighted to enter this new era for PaleyFest with Hulu as our partner,” said Pat Mitchell, Paley Center’s president and CEO. “It’s exciting to know that audiences throughout the United States will now be able to join the community of PaleyFest fans as they experience the festival on demand, whenever and wherever they want. Hulu’s partnership allows us to continue to expand PaleyFest as a key facet of our overall mission to interpret, celebrate, preserve and archive television’s best.”