'Wheel of Fortune,' 'Jeopardy!' to stream on Hulu, Peacock

These long-running shows volition nary longer aerial lone connected TV stations.

What are “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune”?

Beginning this fall, the 2 shows volition grow beyond their broadcast runs to streaming services Peacock and Hulu successful the U.S., Sony Pictures Television announced Tuesday.

Fans inactive volition beryllium capable to proceed their routines by watching caller episodes of the programs connected their section stations.

But the caller licensing agreements with Peacock, owned by NBCUniversal, and Hulu, owned by the Walt Disney Co., people the archetypal clip current-season episodes besides volition beryllium disposable connected nationalist streaming platforms the time aft they debut connected broadcast TV.

The determination is simply a designation by Sony that broadcast TV audiences are aging, and the workplace indispensable grow its scope to enactment applicable with younger viewers. Until now, the crippled shows provided a bulwark for TV presumption operators struggling to clasp onto viewers amid the formation to streaming. Stations were capable to exclusively connection 2 of the astir fashionable shows connected tv astatine a predictable time, drafting viewers to their evening lineups.

Now that exclusivity is gone.

The deals besides volition springiness Peacock and Hulu entree to older episodes of the programs, enabling their viewers to binge connected the brainteasers.

“We are thrilled to bring America’s favourite crippled shows to an adjacent wider assemblage connected Hulu, Hulu connected Disney+, and Peacock,” Keith Le Goy, president of Sony Pictures Television, said successful a statement.

Sony owns the shows and produces them connected its Culver City lot.

The displacement comes arsenic Sony continues to conflict CBS implicit organisation rights to the 2 shows. In April, a Los Angeles justice ruled that Sony was nary longer obligated to supply episodes to CBS, which has delivered batches of episodes to tv stations astir the state for decades.

After that ruling, the Paramount Global-owned web appealed. A three-judge appellate sheet paused the bid and past week, the judges ruled that CBS could proceed to administer the shows during the appeals process.

CBS maintains Sony lacks the ineligible close to unilaterally sever ties.

The quality burst into presumption erstwhile Sony terminated its organisation woody with CBS past August. It aboriginal filed a breach-of-contract suit that claimed CBS entered into unauthorized licensing deals for the shows and past paid itself a commission. Sony besides maintained that rounds of fund cuts wrong CBS had hobbled the network’s efforts to enactment the shows.

In February, Sony attempted to chopped CBS retired of the picture, escalating the dispute.

CBS was not progressive successful the streaming pacts announced Tuesday.

Hulu and Peacock volition statesman streaming the shows successful September with the motorboat of the 42nd play of “Jeopardy” and the 43rd play of “Wheel of Fortune.”