New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+

[Daniel]

Dropping today:

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Puppy Dog Pals - 6 Episodes (Season 5)
Secrets of The Zoo: Tampa - Season 3
Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight!
Way of The Cheetah
Something's Coming: West Side Story - 20/20 Special Edition
The Proud Family: Louder & Prouder – Episode 1 & 2
Free Guy

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The Walking Dead - Episode 9 (Season 11)
Resident - Episode 6 (Season 5)
Amphibia - Episode 1-5 (Season 3)
Touch - Season 1-2
Our Kind Of People – Episode 2
For the People Season - 1 & 2
World's Deadliest - Season 3
Savage Kingdom - Season 4
Wild Cats of India - Season 1
Built for Mars: The Perseverance Rover
Big Sky – Episode 8 (Season 2)
Pam & Tommy – Episode 6
Queens – Episode 6
This Is Us – Episode 5 (Season 6)
Snatched
The Impostors
No Exit (2022)

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Snowdrop – New Episodes
Breeders - Season 2
Mayans M.C. - Season 1-3
Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight!

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Single Drunk Female – New Episode
The Wolf – Season 1
Bob's Burgers – New Episode
Ahneun Hyungnim (Men on a Mission) – New Episode
City of Angels | City of Death
Mira, Royal Detective – Season 2
Rookie Cops – New Episodes
The Grid – New Episode
The Kid
Dollface – Episode 3 (Season 2)
The King's Man

[Ben]

And now all you "lucky" people can see Free Guy in the US…

Gaastra…although Comcast (which owns Universal *and* NBC) still owns a minority block of Hulu, Disney's deal means it has full operational control and can basically do as it wants. Ccomcast relinquished control, with Disney also able to act on a buyout clause whenever they see fit and all agree on, which would also give it full ownership.

Comcast will still see full returns on any contracts and money generated, and would also probably prefer that any Hulu subs that are there for Universal content goes into Peacock (which is due a rebrand anyway, rumor is with the newly re-merged ViacomCBS — now all once again named Paramount), so I can totally still see this happening in a big streaming shake up down the line, and not that long away.

After all, those Netflix Marvel shows *were* exclusive to Netflix…weren’t they…?

[gaastra]

Disney plus america adding adult section (adults must turn on) starting with netflix marvel shows!

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/darede ... 235188404/

[Randall]

Not so much a section as a tweak to parental controls. Old news for us non-US subscribers.

Nice to see this getting sorted out.

[EricJ]

And now all you "lucky" people get to see the Marvel Netflix universe...

[ShyViolet]

Honest trailer for Book of Boba Fett: (Eight minutes long.)

https://youtu.be/m5Gt9s6xDB8

I like the very last line a lot.

[Ben]

Might save me from having to watch the actual show…

[Daniel]

Dropping today:

:
The Proud Family: Louder And Prouder - Episode 3
Brain Games: On The Road
Secrets of The Zoo: Tampa - Season 3
Broken Karaoke - 5 Episodes
Mickey Mouse Funhouse - 4 Episodes
Russia's Wild Tiger
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
West Side Story

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The Walking Dead - Episode 10 (Season 11)
Our Kind of People - Episode 3
Pam & Tommy - Episode 7
The Resident - Episode 7 (Season 5)
Queens - Episode 7
Bob's Burgers - Episode 4 (Season 12)
Outrun by Running Man
Mickey Mouse Funhouse - Episode 8-11
Single Parents
Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Rudolph's Bakery - Season 4-5
Lost Treasures of Egypt
World's Biggest Great White
Flooded Tombs of the Nile
Women of Impact: Changing the World
The Cleveland Show - Season 4
The Dropout – 3 New Episodes
This Is Us – New Episode (Season 6)
X-Men: First Class
I Give It A Year
The Mercy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Sense of an Ending
Calvary
An Education
I, Daniel Blake
The King's Speech
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)

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The Great North - New Episode (Season 2)
Our Kind of People
Promised Land - New Episode
Snowdrop - New Episodes
Wu-Tang: An American Saga - Season 1-2
Secrets of Sulpher Springs - Season 2
The Dropout – 3 New Episodes
Russia's Wild Tiger
The Way of the Cheetah
Fresh
The Call of The Wild

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Surviving Africa: Africa's Deadliest - Season 4
Legion - Season 1-3
Mickey Mouse Funhouse – New Episodes
Trust
Virus Hunters
Outrun by Running Man
The Dropout – 3 New Episodes
Dollface – New Episode (Season 2)
Malcom in the Middle
Fresh
The Secret Agent
AKA Jane Roe
Long Long Time Ago 2

[Ben]

Er…great timing, there, on Russia's Wild Tiger…!

[Ben]

Ads coming to D+…

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busin ... 1235104274

Okay, so not quite, but interesting development.

[Daniel]

Small inconvenience for saving money! Bring it on!

[Ben]

Yeah…but only a matter of time before the ad-supported version catches up to how much we're paying now for unsupported!

How does that work, anyway? Is it like two or three forced ads before a selects title plays, or…shudder…do we get interrupts during a show? If so I’d still probably turn over to churning and just get the ad-free as and when, over sticking with a lower cost D+ with ads.

[Daniel]

Disney CFO provides some info from a conference Q&A:

I want to ask you, because one of the frequent questions I've gotten since Friday, is about the linear Disney Channel historically, was ad-free, or essentially ad-free. How are you thinking about leveraging advertising, given the brand focus of the Disney+ service?

Yes, that's a great question. Disney Channel, we did not have ads on it. We had some interstitials and things, some promotional things, but it wasn't ads per se. We're going to be very careful about making sure the -- any advertising is consistent with the content; what people are watching. So, it's not going to be something that's going to be jarring an off topic or off brand. We'll also -- it'll be a lighter ad load and we're also going to make sure that everything complies with Child Protection policies and any kind of COPPA regulations, U.S. as well as international privacy laws. So, we're going to be very, very mindful of this. And it will be a different ad-supported platform than a lot of others out there just because the nature of the service we're providing is a family-oriented one.

[Ben]

And it will be a different ad-supported platform than a lot of others out there just because the nature of the service we're providing is a family-oriented one.

Added this week: The Walking Dead, Pam & Tommy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Calvary, An Education, I Daniel Blake, The King's Speech…

[gaastra]

How does that work, anyway? Is it like two or three forced ads before a selects title plays, or…shudder…do we get interrupts during a show? If so I’d still probably turn over to churning and just get the ad-free as and when, over sticking with a lower cost D+ with ads.

My guess is like hulu. Some times a few ads showing up random in shows and other times full 4 to 5 min ads! I have the ads hulu by the way as we are paying for live channels. Won't get the ad version of plus.