THE VAMPIRE DIARIES SEASON 3 COMING TO HULU & HULU PLUS

Call your friends, call your family, call everyone you know: Following the CW’s big freakin’ deal with Netflix for instant streaming rights to Seasons 1 and 2 of The Vampire Diaries,Hulu and The CW announced today that The Vampire DiariesSeason 3 (along with other new and returning shows of the CW’s 2011-2012 television season) will be available for streaming on both Hulu’s ad-supported free service and their subscription Hulu Plus service. From the press release, via TV By The Numbers:

With this agreement, Hulu Plus will be the only online subscription service to carry in-season episodes of The CW’s drama and reality series, with the five most recent episodes of each show available to subscribers the next day after broadcast. Users of the free, ad-supported Hulu service will be able to watch five episodes of current season programming eight days after airing on The CW.

Available later this year, programming on Hulu and Hulu Plus will begin with the nine series on The CW’s Fall 2011 schedule, including new series “Ringer,” “Hart Of Dixie” and “The Secret Circle,” as well as returning hits “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl,” “Supernatural,” “Nikita,” “90210” and “America’s Next Top Model.”