Gary Levin

USA TODAY

Supernatural comedy %27Deadbeat%27 among new series

Also due%3A %27Real Housewives%27 parody %27Hotwives of Orlando%27

New seasons of %27The Awesomes%2C%27 %27Moone Boy%2C%27 others

Hulu is going for the Deadbeat crowd.

Deadbeat, a supernatural comedy starring Tyler Labine (Reaper) and So You Think You Can Dance's Cat Deeley, is part of its slate of 2014 original series, with the 10-episode project to premiere its first episode April 9.

Also due later this year is Hotwives of Orlando, a spoof of Bravo's Real Housewives franchise due later this year that stars Casey Wilson (Happy Endings), Angela Kinsey (The Office) and Kristen Schaal (The Daily Show) as catfighting vixens.

Hulu also plans new seasons of several returning series including The Awesomes, a superhero cartoon from Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker, coming this summer; Behind the Mask, a documentary about sports mascots; East Los High (summer), a teen drama; Moone Boy (April), a family comedy starring Chris O'Dowd; Quick Draw (fall), a comedy Western; and Rev (summer), a British series about an inner-city vicar.

All will be available on Hulu Plus, with 5 million paid subscribers, and in a more limited capacity on the free Hulu site.

Hulu co-produced Deadbeat with Lionsgate studio, and is merely the outlet for Hotwives, which hails from Paramount Insurge, the studio behind Burning Love, a similar parody of The Bachelor.

But both fit the service's quest for projects with "an irreverent sense of humor," says development chief Charlotte Koh. "We're not afraid to take a chance on shows that will require a certain amount of proactive discovery on the part of the audience."

Deadbeat follows "the genre reinvention angle we look for," Koh says, with a blend of "supernatural, comedy and buddy elements in a cocktail." Labine plays a "hapless but gifted medium who will go to any lengths to help New York's ghosts settle their unfinished business." Deeley plays his rival and nemesis.