The first format, The Weekly, was a television spin-off of the daily news podcast, The Daily, that covered recent topical news and cultural stories with the involvement of Times journalists in a half-hour timeslot, and premiered on FX on June 2, 2019.

[5] These documentaries are also distributed internationally under the title The Weekly: Special Edition.

[6] Each episode of The Weekly streamed exclusively on Hulu a day after its FX premiere.

[2] Each episode was made available to New York Times subscribers in the United States five weeks after streaming on Hulu.

[7] Following the reformatting as The New York Times Presents, new editions are now released on Hulu simultaneously with their FX airings.