Welcome to Flatch's first half of Season 1 is now available on Hulu ahead of tonight's Fox premiere

Variety

Fox hopes that making the first seven episodes of the mockumentary sitcom from Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig available on Hulu and other platforms will give it an Office-like boost. So Fox won't pay attention to Nielsen ratings over the next seven weeks. “Rarely does anything ‘open’ anymore, and comedies take longer to find an audience — docu-style comedies specifically,” Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn tells Variety of the network's first attempt at a binge-first strategy. “We’ve been talking about trying to find the most specific types of voices that will hopefully capture a real fan base and grow from there, as opposed to trying to appeal to everyone at the same time, which doesn’t feel possible or likely anymore.”