What drives me crazy about the whining over geocaching is that people forget that Hulu exists because of advertising dollars. It's a free service that makes money by selling ads to U.S.-based companies. They make no money off non-American viewers because they can't use those page hit stats when selling ad space; in fact, they lose money via the high bandwidth costs. Does the whole model of internet video sharing need to be changed to accommodate worldwide audiences? Of course. A show like, say, Fringe has fans everywhere who want to watch. But advertising pays the bills -- both to produce the episodes and to stream them online -- and I won't blame Hulu for using things like geocaching to cut costs and make themselves more profitable.

And before someone throws an "ugly American" label my way ... I adore quite a few British shows like Doctor Who, but in the past (haven't tried lately) I've been blocked from watching bbc.co.uk's streaming video content. Makes sense to me. I have no inherent "right" to watch those videos and suck up bandwidth because I don't pay for the TV licence that helps fund the programming. ITV isn't obligated to make their shows freely available to me because I won't be buying any of the products their UK sponsors have paid to advertise.

Wait isn't UK the 52nd State?

How about some love for the rest of the world? Well, I guess that's why God created torrents!

Canada next, please?

Yay! The world can finally appreciate Arrested Development! It was left in the graveyard slots over here, and the DVDs are £30 ($50) per season, so while there is a huge appetite for it, and indeed loads of comedy fans here love it, the supply has been cut off. Here's to more fans!

Programming like the Facts of Life is what will make or break Hulu in the U.K. We can, as the above commenter said, already see all the BBC (without ads), ITV, C4 stuff that we want to.

Hulu U.K. should focus on more obscure American programming. Picket Fences is one show on the U.S. Hulu, that I'm dying to see again.

When will we be able to see UK TV content on Hulu? The UK has some fantastic programs and it is refreshing to see more realistic characters and complex plotlines in some of the British TV shows. Rather than make inferior remakes, please gives us the real thing.... Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, The Eleventh Hour, The Bill, Inspector George Gently, The Fixer, Being Human, and many many more.

Having the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV on Hulu wouldn't mean much, we can watch them already. You can also watch some Sky, Five and others to varying degrees of quality. Admittedly having them all in one place might be more convenient, but what Hulu would really need is access to all those channels that don't have proper online viewing services. I can imagine the other main problem apart from advertising would be the rights.

I think the BBC are in the strongest position here, they produce the most new stuff and already have a high quality service which they can only add to, other companies are going to be fighting it out over who gets to show what. I'm not holding my breath.