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Disney and the Great Streaming Purge
- skyyler 3y agohttps://archive.is/fZ0dE https://archive.is/fZ0dE
- gennarro 3y agoSeems incomplete as well. Or is that the whole article?
- skyyler 3y agoNever mind, this still seems to cut off near the same place as the paywalled version.
- mikestew 3y agoI just flagged it and moved on, after spending more minutes trying to read TFA than the blogspam was worth. Disney's purging content, "profits", blah, blah, blah, we've already read this; bring something new to the table above the fold before asking me to sign up for something.
- skyyler 3y agoYeah, that site seems to be for a particular type of person. Perhaps someone that wishes to be an "influencer"
- craftyguy98 3y agoCool paywall bro
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- anoonmoose 3y agoCan't read without paying, won't pay $13/mo to read. OP, do you subscribe, can you tell us why?
- jacurtis 3y agoAh, the price of Disney Plus... Can't wait for another $13 subscription, which the article seems to be complaining about.
- skyyler 3y agoWould you pay $1 to read it? Not an ongoing subscription, but a license to read the article.
- anoonmoose 3y agoFor this article, from this source? Nah. Never heard of them before and the content isn't that interesting.
- spatley 3y ago>> If Wall Street wants Disney+ to cost less, the easiest way to do that without impacting subs or engagement is to delete the old stuff nobody watches. This seems bananas on its face, are the execs at Disney thinking that it will save money to have fewer titles available to stream? The storage costs of titles that are never delivered is near zero.
- tivert 3y agoThese look like non-paywalled articles that cover the same thing: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23729642/disney-plus-hulu-remove-pull-shows-willow-streaming-bob-iger https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23729642/disney-plus-hulu... > If there’s a show on Disney Plus or Hulu that you’ve been meaning to watch then you might want to do so quickly before it is pulled from the platforms for good. According to a report by Deadline, Disney is about to remove dozens of series (and a few films) from both streaming services, including Willow, Y: The Last Man, and Turner & Hooch, as part of the entertainment giant’s broader cost-cutting measures. https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/disney-plus-hulu-to-remove-select-tv-shows-movies.html https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/disney-plus-hulu-to-remove-s... > A Disney rep has confirmed to us but declined to comment further that both of the Walt Disney Company–owned streamers will be removing a handful of titles from their services as soon as next week on May 26. Titles such as Willow, Dollface, FX’s Pistol and Y: The Last Man are among the first round of shows to be pulled, they confirmed. Disney+’s Howard was initially reported to be pulled, but a Disney rep clarified to us that it was never meant to be taken off the platform. In all, it’s expected that the the final number of titles pulled from Disney+ and Hulu will be a bit under 100, per a source familiar with the plans. https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-remove-series-streaming-disney-plus-hulu-big-shot-willow-y-dollface-turner-hooch-pistol-1235372512/ https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-remove-series-streaming-... > The titles, which are being removed from Disney’s streaming services globally, include Disney+’s Willow, Big Shot, Turner & Hooch, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Just Beyond, Diary of a Future President, The Mysterious Benedict Society and The World According to Jeff Goldblum and Hulu’s Y: The Last Man, Dollface, The Hot Zone, Maggie, Pistol and Little Demon. A number of Freeform series also are slated to leave Hulu. https://thedirect.com/article/disney-plus-shows-removal https://thedirect.com/article/disney-plus-shows-removal This clarifies some of the names I recognized )like Willow and Turner & Hooch) are recent streaming reboots, not the original movies.
- open-paren 3y agoSome of those are very recent titles, like The Mysterious Benedict Society, which finished it's 3rd season within the past few months.
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