Not a streamer to rest on its laurels, Hulu has managed, in the brief period that’s passed since we first published this list in 2020, to make its teen-centric TV catalog even stronger. Add to that lot all the 20th Century Fox titles Disney scooped up with the same FOX acquisition that netted it majority stakeholder status in Hulu in the first place, a handful of iconic teen-centric shows from ABC’s TGIF era, and the streamer’s own ever-growing catalog of high school-set Hulu Originals, and you have a recipe for teen TV streaming dominance.
As a branch of the same behemoth Disney/ABC tree Hulu joined in 2019, Freeform gives the streamer access not just to its current slate of young adult-oriented programming, but also to a veritable time capsule of post-Y2K, pre-streaming American Teen Content. First and foremost: Freeform ( neé ABC Family). Hulu! Initial shock aside, it only took two seconds of critical thinking to understand why that might be.
When we first started putting together our dedicated teen TV lists a couple of years ago, we were pleasantly shocked to discover that it was Hulu, of all the many, audience-hungry streamers out there, that boasted the most robust teen-centric catalog.
