Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It's Now On Hulu (Update: And International)

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog is a 40 minute musical that stars Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible, a bumbling, video blogging super villain who’s trying to get into the Evil League of Evil. The project is available on iTunes for $4 – this week Hulu also put it on its site for free with commercials.

The video is an experiment in a new type of video format that is professionally produced and designed to spread virally (although Whedon is stopping short of supporting BitTorrent trading). Whedon wrote a hilarious guest post on the Hulu blog about the show as well.

Watch the whole thing below, assuming you are in the U.S. And if you missed it, watch our interview with Hulu CTO Eric Feng from last weekend.

Update: So we’ve confirmed that the video has no international restrictions. Hulu has said in the past that they can flip a switch for any particular video to remove the U.S.-only restriction, but this is the first time I’ve confirmed it for a particular video.

http://www.hulu.com/embed/Z4kt7M5Uta51JuIDJV6HeQ

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