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Hulu’s spring/summer schedule is full of a lot of new shows, including CATCH-22 and RAMY, as well as the return of VERONICA MARS and THE HANDMAID’S TALE. Premiere dates and details for each original Hulu show is below.
RAMY (Season 1, 10 Episodes) – Premiere Date: April 19 (all episodes)
- Cast: Ramy Youssef, Mohammed Amer, Hiam Abbass, Amr Waked, May Calamawy, Dave Merheje, Laith Nakli and Steve Way.
- Synopsis: Ramy Hassan is a first generation Egyptian-American who is on a spiritual journey in his politically-divided New Jersey neighborhood. RAMY will bring a new perspective to the screen as it explores the challenges of what it’s like being caught between a Muslim community that thinks life is a moral test and a millennial generation that thinks life has no consequences.
ASK DR.RUTH (Documentary) – Premiere Date: Friday, May 3 (theatrical), Saturday, June 1 (Hulu)
- Synopsis: Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. With her diminutive frame, thick German accent, and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.
INTO THE DARK: ALL THAT WE DESTROY (Mother’s Day) – Premiere Date: Friday, May 3
- Cast: Israel Broussard, Aurora Perrineau, Dora Madison, with Frank Whaley and Samantha Mathis.
Crew: Directed by Chelsea Stardust and Written by Sean Keller & Jim Agnew - Synopsis: A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer, creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.
INTO THE DARK: THEY COME KNOCKING (Father’s Day) – Premiere Date: Friday, June 7
- Cast: Clayne Crawford, Josephine Langford, Lia Mchugh and Robyn Lively.
Crew: Directed by Adam Mason and written by Shane & Carey Van Dyke - Synopsis: After losing his wife to cancer, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip where he finds his family in the crosshairs of terrifying supernatural entities.
INTO THE DARK: CULTURE SHOCK (Independence Day) – Premiere Date: Thursday, July 4
- Cast: Martha Higareda, Richard Cabral, Shawn Ashmore, Barbara Crampton and Creed Bratton.
Crew: Directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero and written by James Benson, Efren Hernandez and Gigi Saul Guerrero. - Synopsis: This thriller follows a young Mexican woman in pursuit of the American Dream, who crosses illegally into the United States, only to find herself in an American nightmare.
CATCH-22 (Limited Series, 6 Episodes) – Premiere Date: May 17 (all episodes)
- Cast: Christopher Abbott (Yossarian), Kyle Chandler (Colonel Cathcart), George Clooney (Scheisskopf), Hugh Laurie (Major de Coverley), Giancarlo Giannini (Marcello), Tessa Ferrer (Nurse Duckett), Jay Paulson (Chaplain), Daniel David Stewart (Milo), Austin Stowell (Nately), Rafi Gavron (Aarfy), Graham Patrick Martin (Orr), Pico Alexander (Clevinger), Jon Rudnitsky (McWatt), Gerran Howell (Kid Sampson), Lewis Pullman (Major Major), Harrison Osterfield (Snowden), Julie Ann Emery (Marion) and Grant Heslov (Doc Daneeka).
- Synopsis: Based on Joseph Heller’s seminal novel of the same name, Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian (Abbott), a US Air Force bombardier in World War II who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy, but rather his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to avoid his military assignments, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule which specifies that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers which are real and immediate is the process of a rational mind; a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but a request to be removed from duty is evidence of sanity and therefore makes him ineligible to be relieved from duty.
THE WEEKLY (Season 1, 30 Episodes) – Premiere Date: June 2 on FX, June 3 on Hulu (weekly)
- Synopsis: The Weekly brings the unparalleled journalism of The New York Times to the screen for the first time. Each half-hour episode features a Times journalist investigating one of the most pressing issues of the day. With more than 1,550 journalists scattered across 160 countries, the Times produces 2,500 stories a week – investigative reports, political scoops, cultural dispatches. And each week, The Weekly chooses to tell one of these stories in a visual and unforgettable way. FX has the first-run North American rights to The Weekly, in partnership with Hulu, which will be the exclusive SVOD streaming home to new episodes of the series the day after air.
THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Season 3, 13 Episodes) – Premiere Date: Wednesday, June 5 (weekly)
- Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, O-T Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley and Bradley Whitford
- Synopsis: Season Three of THE HANDMAID’S TALE is driven by June’s resistance to the dystopian regime of Gilead and her struggle to strike back against overwhelming odds. Startling reunions, betrayals, and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead force all characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer: “Blessed be the fight.”
HARLOTS (Season 3, 8 Episodes) – Premiere Date: Wednesday, July 10 (weekly)
- Cast: The series stars Academy Award nominees Samantha Morton and Lesley Manville, Jessica Brown-Findlay and Liv Tyler.
- Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of 18th century Georgian London, Harlots continues to follow the fortunes of the Wells family. Margaret (Samantha Morton) has been sent to America in chains and Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville) is vanquished and in Bedlam. It seems that the Wells girls can finally free themselves of their mother’s feud, helped by allies such as Lady Fitz (Liv Tyler). But Charlotte Wells (Jessica Brown-Findlay) soon learns that running a lucrative brothel brings enemies as well as friends, including new pimp in town Isaac Pincher (Alfie Allen). Meanwhile Lydia still finds a way to bite, even in her darkest hour. Inspired by the stories of real women, Harlots is a powerful family drama as explored from the female perspective.
VERONICA MARS (Season 4, 8 Episodes) – Premiere Date: July 26 (all episodes)
- Cast: The series stars Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars, Jason Dohring as Logan Echolls and Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars. Guest cast includes J.K. Simmons as Clyde Prickett, Patton Oswalt as Penn Epner, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Nicole, Ryan Hansen as Dick Casablancas, Clifton Collins Jr. as Alonzo, Max Greenfield as Leo, Percy Daggs III as Wallace, David Starzyk as Big Dick, Francis Capra as Weevil, and Izabela Vidovic as Matty Ross.
- Synopsis: Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town’s lifeblood tourist industry. After Mars Investigations is hired by the family of one of the victims to find their son’s killer, Veronica is drawn into an epic eight-episode mystery that pits the enclave’s wealthy elites, who would rather put an end to the month-long bacchanalia, against a working class that relies on the cash influx that comes with being the West Coast’s answer to Daytona Beach.
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (Season 1, 10 Episodes) – Premiere Date: Wednesday, July 31 (weekly)
- Cast: The series stars Zoe Boyle, Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan, Sophia La Porta, Harish Patel, Nikesh Patel, John Reynolds, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Brandon Mychal Smith.
- Synopsis: Four American friends reunite for a fabulous London wedding. But after a bombshell at the altar throws their lives into turmoil, they must weather a tumultuous year of romance and heartbreak. Relationships are forged and broken, political scandals exposed, London social life lampooned, love affairs ignited and doused, and of course, there are four weddings… and a funeral.