If you want to watch Hulu Live TV in the UK, you can, but only if you can first trick Hulu into thinking you are in the US, and if you can bypass the geo-payment block which requires you to have a card issued in the US, to create a Hulu account.
In this guide, we go over both steps, so that you can watch Hulu Live TV in the UK.
...But first, let’s talk about why Hulu Live TV is not a thing in the UK.
For a simple reason.
Rights to content.
Hulu is not able to show the majority of its content outside of the UK as far as just Hulu is concerned.
That’s because Hulu either doesn’t own a lot of its content, or it makes profit by giving other networks/services in other countries, the rights to the content.
And that results in Hulu just not being able to be in the UK.
...But it’s even worse when it comes to Hulu Live TV as there’s a lot more of content that Hulu doesn’t have rights to there.
Will this ever change and will Hulu Live TV in the UK be a thing? Probably not.
And that’s where the steps shared in this guide come in.
Here’s the most effective way to complete these two steps right now⬇️.
The second you go to Hulu, Hulu will know you are not in the US.
...And that means it won’t work.
To make it work, you need to be in the US, virtually.
And that’s where VPN services come in as a tool that allows you to change your virtual location.
With it, you can move from the UK to the US, in a space of two clicks.
But it’s not quite as simple as just connecting to a Hulu Live TV server.
Services like Hulu need to make efforts against VPN services. The result? Most don’t work with Hulu.
...And then there’s the issue of live streaming.
That’s where PrivateVPN comes in as a service that focuses on quality rather than quantity, meaning fewer servers, but servers that can unblock services you want to use.
Perhaps even more importantly, PrivateVPN is a service that invests in its own hardware and servers, allowing for smooth watching of Hulu Live TV in the UK.
After that, it’s all about creating a Hulu account.
Right now, if you tried to create a Hulu Live TV account, unless you already have an American issued card, it would not work.
Hulu has special payment card blocks for this.
And this is where signing up from the Hulu app on your mobile device comes in.
Why?
As Apple and Google handle payments on their own from the app, and they don’t have such card blocks.
The only thing you will need to do to make this work is to change the region of your app store so that you can download Hulu in the first place.
We’ll show you how to do that now⬇️.
IMPORTANT: Don’t just change the region of your app store. If you do that, you will lose everything. That’s why it’s important to create a new account. Of course, if you wish, you can sign back into your older account after you create an account, and everything will still be there.
Naturally, you might want to watch live TV on a TV.
The options for that are very limited due to the fact that a lot of smart TVs and platforms like Apple TV, Chromecast, and Roku, don’t support VPN services.
That’s where these options come in:
If you just ordered a Fire TV Stick, make sure to sign up for a region in the US.
...But if you already have one, change your region to be in the US.
Here’s how to do it⬇️:
This guide? It applies to many other services that PrivateVPN can unblock such as DAZN or ESPN+. But you can find that out when you sign up for PrivateVPN’s 7-day trial with no need for a card.
Written by Michael Smolski.
Disclaimer: While PrivateVPN supports Hulu Live TV and has done so for a very long time, due to the nature of VPN services being constantly hunted by streaming services, we cannot guarantee non-stop 100% of the time support. No VPN service can guarantee that.