Post by cjh on May 16, 2023 12:08:12 GMT -5
whatsondisneyplus.com/dozens-of-disney-originals-to-be-removed-in-france/
EDIT: The news post from What's On Disney Plus on this has been taken down, so there's a chance this might not happen.
Last year, Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav revealed that they would be taking a number of shows and films from HBO Max and removing them from the service, to write them off for business purposes, because they were considered to be a failure, either with regards to viewing numbers or how they didn’t bring in new subscribers, but are now basically costing them money, paying out for things like residuals, server costs etc.
Since then, Disney made a similar move, removing a number of cancelled shows like “Queens” and “Rebel” from Disney’s streaming services worldwide. At the same time, over the winter, hundreds of titles have been removed from Disney+ worldwide. And things are going to get even worst, as last week, during Disney’s quarterly investors call, Disney’s CFO Christine McCarthy revealed they would be removing more content from its streaming services, which would include Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, Star+ and Hotstar.
"We are in the process of reviewing the content on our DTC services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation that you’ve heard Bob discuss. As a result, we will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion. The charge, which will not be recorded in our segment results, will primarily be recognized in the third quarter as we complete our review and remove the content."
An impairment charge is a term used to account for an asset that is no longer as valuable as it may have once been.
Disney hasn’t officially announced what shows or films might be removed from its streaming services. Unlike most streaming services, Disney+ doesn’t inform subscribers in advance if titles are going to be removed, so it’s generally a case of only noticing something is gone, when it’s no longer available.
However, the French streaming service, Canal+, which is a streaming content aggregator in France, has listed a number of Disney+ and Star+ Originals that have an expiration date of May 26th 2023, which you can see listed on the website, showing the removal date.
There are dozens of shows showing the exact same date on Canal+ that are set to leave, including:
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Big Shot
Willow
The Making Of Willow
The One And Only Ivan
Timmy Failure
Be Our Chef
Magic Camp
Howard
Pistol
Dollface
The Quest
Earth To Ned
Y: The Last Man
The Premise
Foodtastic
Stuntman
Disney Fairy Tale Weddings
Love In The Time Of Corona
Everything’s Trash
Best In Snow
Little Demon
Maggie
The World According To Jeff Goldblum
Best In Dough
Wolfgang
It’s a Dog’s Life With Bill Farmer
And many more
It’s unknown if these removals are only going to happen in France, or if these are going to be removed from Disney+ worldwide, Hulu in the US and Star+ in Latin America. But it’s very likely this could be an indication of what’s going to be happening this summer, as many of these shows have either been cancelled or been underperformers.
Currently, we only know that these titles are leaving Disney+ in France, due to the Canal+ showing expiration dates. So these titles might not necessarily be completely removed globally, but following on from the words of Disney CFO Christine McCarthy at the Investors Call last week, this does seem a logical list of titles to write off. Though this list of titles almost wipes out the majority of original programming from the past year or so, which is horrible to see, especially if these titles aren’t going to be available to buy on digital platforms or licensed out. With Disney planning on writing off almost $2 billion dollars worth of content, that’s going to be a lot of shows and films.
We probably might not know if these removals are going to happen until we log onto Disney+ on May 27th 2023. In the meantime, I’d recommend watching anything on this list that you’ve been wanting to watch in the next week, because there is no guarantee that these will still be there at the end of the month.
Since then, Disney made a similar move, removing a number of cancelled shows like “Queens” and “Rebel” from Disney’s streaming services worldwide. At the same time, over the winter, hundreds of titles have been removed from Disney+ worldwide. And things are going to get even worst, as last week, during Disney’s quarterly investors call, Disney’s CFO Christine McCarthy revealed they would be removing more content from its streaming services, which would include Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, Star+ and Hotstar.
"We are in the process of reviewing the content on our DTC services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation that you’ve heard Bob discuss. As a result, we will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion. The charge, which will not be recorded in our segment results, will primarily be recognized in the third quarter as we complete our review and remove the content."
An impairment charge is a term used to account for an asset that is no longer as valuable as it may have once been.
Disney hasn’t officially announced what shows or films might be removed from its streaming services. Unlike most streaming services, Disney+ doesn’t inform subscribers in advance if titles are going to be removed, so it’s generally a case of only noticing something is gone, when it’s no longer available.
However, the French streaming service, Canal+, which is a streaming content aggregator in France, has listed a number of Disney+ and Star+ Originals that have an expiration date of May 26th 2023, which you can see listed on the website, showing the removal date.
There are dozens of shows showing the exact same date on Canal+ that are set to leave, including:
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Big Shot
Willow
The Making Of Willow
The One And Only Ivan
Timmy Failure
Be Our Chef
Magic Camp
Howard
Pistol
Dollface
The Quest
Earth To Ned
Y: The Last Man
The Premise
Foodtastic
Stuntman
Disney Fairy Tale Weddings
Love In The Time Of Corona
Everything’s Trash
Best In Snow
Little Demon
Maggie
The World According To Jeff Goldblum
Best In Dough
Wolfgang
It’s a Dog’s Life With Bill Farmer
And many more
It’s unknown if these removals are only going to happen in France, or if these are going to be removed from Disney+ worldwide, Hulu in the US and Star+ in Latin America. But it’s very likely this could be an indication of what’s going to be happening this summer, as many of these shows have either been cancelled or been underperformers.
Currently, we only know that these titles are leaving Disney+ in France, due to the Canal+ showing expiration dates. So these titles might not necessarily be completely removed globally, but following on from the words of Disney CFO Christine McCarthy at the Investors Call last week, this does seem a logical list of titles to write off. Though this list of titles almost wipes out the majority of original programming from the past year or so, which is horrible to see, especially if these titles aren’t going to be available to buy on digital platforms or licensed out. With Disney planning on writing off almost $2 billion dollars worth of content, that’s going to be a lot of shows and films.
We probably might not know if these removals are going to happen until we log onto Disney+ on May 27th 2023. In the meantime, I’d recommend watching anything on this list that you’ve been wanting to watch in the next week, because there is no guarantee that these will still be there at the end of the month.
EDIT: The news post from What's On Disney Plus on this has been taken down, so there's a chance this might not happen.
