Last Chance: This Streaming Service Is Removing a Ton of Content
Disney is pulling tons of content from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services on May 26, Deadline reports(Opens in a new window).
The wide-spanning list of soon-to-be removed content mainly includes short-lived series, specials and direct-to-streaming movies, and the move to remove them was announced during a Disney earnings call on May 10. As Deadline notes, the move comes with a content impairment charge of $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion.
Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said at the time of the earnings call: “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.”
Content to be removed from Disney+ includes Willow, The Princess, Rogue Trip, Stuntman, and The Big Fib. Meanwhile, content that is due to be taken down from Hulu includes Little Demon, Dollface, Everything’s Trash, The Quest, and Love in the Time of Corona.
According to Deadline, fans of Howard, a Disney+ documentary about Little Mermaid lyricist Howard Ashman, which was on the original list of to-be-binned content, can be relieved to hear that it is no longer set to be removed as Disney continues to finalize its list.
A full list of the content that is set to be removed on May 26 is available to read in Deadline’s report(Opens in a new window).
The move comes amid a wider content purge across streaming platforms this and last year. In August 2022, Warner Bros Discovery removed a glut of titles from HBO Max, including 20 HBO Originals and 200 episodes of Sesame Street.
That culling, first reported by Variety(Opens in a new window), came during the consolidation of HBO Max and Discovery+ into a combined service.
More than 2,000 hours of that axed content, including
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