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These 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-streami

by tivert 3y ago

These 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 ago
Some of those are very recent titles, like The Mysterious Benedict Society, which finished it's 3rd season within the past few months.
- tivert 3y ago
  This may shed some light on their thinking: https://collider.com/disney-plus-hulu-content-purge/ https://collider.com/disney-plus-hulu-content-purge/: > Unfortunately, Disney is preparing to make many movies and TV shows inaccessible. During the meeting, CFO Christine McCarthy says the company “will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion.” An impairment charge is used by a company to get rid of unprofitable products, taking them out of the market for good. It’s a process similar to what Warner Bros. Discovery did with Batgirl and other Max productions, which risk never being available to the public. So, while the strategy might make sense for executives that ignore the artistic value of films and TV shows, the content purge means many productions could be lost forever. IIRC, Batgirl was a fully completed movie that was figuratively destroyed to take a tax write-off.

by tivert 3y ago

open-paren 3y ago

Some of those are very recent titles, like The Mysterious Benedict Society, which finished it's 3rd season within the past few months.

tivert 3y ago
This may shed some light on their thinking: https://collider.com/disney-plus-hulu-content-purge/ https://collider.com/disney-plus-hulu-content-purge/: > Unfortunately, Disney is preparing to make many movies and TV shows inaccessible. During the meeting, CFO Christine McCarthy says the company “will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion.” An impairment charge is used by a company to get rid of unprofitable products, taking them out of the market for good. It’s a process similar to what Warner Bros. Discovery did with Batgirl and other Max productions, which risk never being available to the public. So, while the strategy might make sense for executives that ignore the artistic value of films and TV shows, the content purge means many productions could be lost forever. IIRC, Batgirl was a fully completed movie that was figuratively destroyed to take a tax write-off.