What Parents Need to Know About Hulu’s New Gay-Themed Dating Shows
By Movieguide® Staff
Disney-owned Hulu recently acquired the streaming rights to the U.K.’s first gay-themed reality dating show, I KISSED A BOY and follow-up I KISSED A GIRL. The series will premiere in June 2024 to align with Pride Month programming.
The Christian Post reported on the premise of the shows:
The premise features 10 single gay men in an Italian villa who will initiate the dating process with another contestant by kissing him before meeting or even speaking to him, according to a trailer for the show. If a man does not get kissed, he is removed from the program.
“It’s our absolute pleasure to bring this trail-blazing series to the world,” Tom Clark, Global Sales and Commercial Strategy, Global Partnerships, ITV Studios said, “We’re so delighted that Hulu, which has been the home of Love Island UK for many years and will launch the upcoming season this summer, will be its US home. I KISSED A… deserves every inch of the critical acclaim it has garnered for its ‘genre-defining’ approach, it’s really exciting to see it transition to a global reality brand.”
I KISSED A GIRL is the same setup but is lesbian-themed and will premier in the summer of 2024.
Parents should be aware that Hulu’s content can appear on the more family-oriented Disney+.
Earlier this year, Disney launched its Hulu on Disney+ experience.
“That means Hulu titles will be integrated into personalized content recommendations, sets and collections on Disney+. Under the previous ‘beta’ integration, which launched last December, Hulu content was presented in a separate hub on Disney+,” Variety reported.
This is concerning for parents who want to protect their children from immoral content like I KISSED A BOY.
“While the soft combination of the steaming platforms will streamline the user experience, it also poses a problem for parents,” Movieguide® reported. “Disney+ is largely composed of content aimed at children, while Hulu’s user base is primarily adults. Once the merge occurs, parents will need to update their parental controls to ensure their kids are protected from viewing inappropriate content that was not previously accessible.
Movieguide previously reported on Hulu:
After receiving legal pressure, Hulu has decided to change its stance after preventing a Texas church from advertising on the platform, citing “religious indoctrination.”
“We are grateful to Hulu for its quick response to our demand letter and for accepting Hulen Street Church’s ad,” said First Liberty Institute Senior Counsel Jeremy Dys in a statement. “In the future, Hulu — and others in Big Tech — could avoid these kinds of conflicts by adopting advertising policies that do not discriminate against religious organizations, being transparent about its advertising policy, and applying it fairly.”
Dys explained the streaming service’s advertising policy in a statement to CBN earlier this week.
“Hulu…has a bunch of ads that they allow people to put on the platform if you’re an approved advertiser, he said. “Hulen Street Church…decided to open up a new [Thursday] service time for people who aren’t able to get to Sunday services, and they wanted to advertise that locally like they’ve done in a lot of other places, and so they became an approved advertiser.”
“They submitted their ad, and it was rejected. They submitted it again, and it was rejected again,” Dys continued…
“Hulu came back and said that advertisement violated their guidelines because it engaged in religious indoctrination, and so that’s why they lost their ad,” Dys explained. “They couldn’t post their ad because it engaged in religious indoctrination.”
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