Disney Plus with ads will expand internationally in 2023, the company said.

Disney has been investing in its advertising technology and already has the largest ad-supported streaming service with Hulu. The company will pitch advertisers on the new ad-supported Disney Plus at the upfront market in May.

The ad-supported version of Disney Plus will carry a lower price tag, increasing the number of subscribers it reaches. Other streaming services have found that they generate more revenue per subscriber with a light ad load than they do with subscription revenue alone.

The extra revenue will help pay for the content Disney plans to churn out to attract and keep subscribers.

A specific launch date and pricing information will be announced at a later date, the company said.

“Expanding access to Disney Plus to a broader audience at a lower price point is a win for everyone -- consumers, advertisers, and our storytellers,” said Kareem Daniel, chair, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution. “More consumers will be able to access our amazing content. Advertisers will be able to reach a wider audience, and our storytellers will be able to share their incredible work with more fans and families.”

“Since its launch, advertisers have been clamoring for the opportunity to be part of Disney Plus and not just because there’s a growing demand for more streaming inventory,” added Rita Ferro, president, advertising, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution. “Disney Plus with advertising will offer marketers the most premium environment in streaming with our most beloved brands, Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel and National Geographic. I can’t wait to share more with advertisers at the Upfront.”

Disney said it viewed the ad-supported offering as a building block in the Company’s path to achieving its long-term target of 230 million to 260 million Disney Plus subscribers by its 2024 fiscal year.

Unlike in most other markets, such as the U.S., Canada, and Australia, Disney is launching Disney+ through an existing service. As part of its deal with Fox last year, Disney now owns Star India and all of its properties including Hotstar. The company has said that Hotstar,  at its peak, had about 300 million monthly active users and 100 million monthly active users.

The service, bundled with Disney+, is currently available at no additional charge to existing Hotstar subscribers — who pay Rs 999 ($14) for a year — though the premium tier carries a new yearly sticker price of Rs 3,588 ($48). (Worth pointing out that earlier the premium tier had a sticker price of about Rs 2,500, though Hotstar has been discounting it at Rs 999. The company has not officially revealed revised pricing yet.)

Updated at 7.38PM IST: A Hotstar spokesperson told TechCrunch that the firm is testing Disney+ in India ahead of the launch.

“A limited release of the beta version of the Disney+ Hotstar app is currently being tested with a small number of consumers, in preparation for the full-fledged app launch on 29th March,” the spokesperson said.

In addition to everything Hotstar previously offered — about 4,000 titles — the “Disney+ Hotstar” adds more than a dozen original titles from Disney, including “Diary of a Future President,” “Disney Family Sundays,” “Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings,” “Encore,” “High School Musical,” “The Mandalorian,” and “The World According to Jeff Goldblum.”

“For our India users, we’re bringing the world’s best stories from the best storytellers at Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. 200+ movies, 100+ shows and 30+ originals!” the Disney+ Hotstar app’s description says.

TechCrunch first reported about Disney’s plan to launch Disney+ launch in India. Disney former chief executive Bob Iger said early last month that the company will expand Hotstar to Southeast Asia and launch Disney+ in the region through it.

Some users have pointed out that the in-app player is not able to stream some titles seamlessly. And that the titles are available in full-HD (1080P), instead of their native 4K (UHD) resolution. Hotstar in India has yet to add support for 4K.

The early rollout of Disney+Hotstar comes at a rough time for Disney that has received criticism for censoring John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” show.

The streaming service, which is the exclusive streaming syndicating partner for HBO,  Showtime, and ABC in India, blocked a recent episode of “Last Week Tonight” that was critical of India’s ruling party and its leader, Narendra Modi .

In the most recent episode of the show, Oliver called out Hotstar for censoring his show and said the streaming service had also edited out a few jokes about Disney from some of his recent episodes. The company has yet to comment on the censorship issue.

That aside, India is going to be a key overseas market for Disney+ and one where it already has a perceived lead over rivals Netflix,  Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video and dozens of other services — all of which have lowered their price to win customers in India.

The deal will provide Sky customers access to new shows such as The Mandalorian and High School Musical; The Musical, The Series, and The World According To Jeff Goldblum.

Further deals with other pay platforms such as BT now look likely, although the content offering available via Disney+ remains unclear. Shows such as The Simpsons will remain available on both Disney+ and Sky as part of a co-exclusive arrangement for around a year because of existing licence deals, Digital TV Europe‘s sister publication TBI understands.

The new deal also includes the first-pay window for 20th Century (fka 20th Century Fox) titles, meaning Sky Cinema customers will continue to have access to movies including Le Mans ’66 and Terminator: Dark Fate.

Both Sky and 20th Century had been owned by Rupert Murdoch prior to his decision to split up his Fox empire, parceling Sky up for acquisition by NBCU-owned Comcast and selling the majority of his entertainment interests to Disney.

Disney has had a long-standing relationship with Sky, with the pair’s complex relationship being part of the reason for the service’s rollout in the UK coming months after the US launch.

Jeremy Darroch, Sky’s CEO, said: “We’ve built a strong partnership with Disney over three decades and we’re pleased that our customers in the UK and Ireland can continue to enjoy their world-class content – all in one place on Sky Q.

“This is a great start to what is set to be another stellar year for Sky – in 2020 we’ll launch new channels and genres, start building Sky Studios Elstree and we’ve got brilliant new and returning originals coming too.”

Kevin Mayer, chairman of Walt Disney direct-to-consumer & international, added: “We are delighted that Sky is selling the Disney+ service on their platform and, along with our other distribution partners, will deliver exceptional reach at launch.”

So finds Hub Entertainment Research’s new “Evolution of Video Branding” study. Last month, Hub surveyed a U.S. census-balanced sample of 2,015 consumers ages 16 to 74 who have broadband access and watch at least an hour of TV per week. 

The survey, conducted annually since 2013, examines how consumers discover, choose and consume entertainment content, including awareness of various TV brands, how brands influence what viewers watch, and which are perceived as providing the best content and experiences. 

Asked which networks they would keep if they could only keep a limited number, 39% of viewers currently name Netflix. That’s 11 percentage points more than the runner-up CBS, but down significantly from Netflix’s 44% in last year’s branding survey. 

CBS’s 28% slipped just a point from last year, putting it in a tie for #2 with ABC (cited as indispensable by 28% both this year and last). 

Third-runner NBC declined to 26% from 28% in 2019, and ESPN declined to 22% from 24%. 

Could Disney+’s arrival already be affecting the scores? Possibly. The new streamer wasn’t around for 2019’s survey, but Hub notes that being considered indispensable by 14% of overall viewers surveyed, so soon in its lifecycle, is notable. 

Furthermore, Disney+ is even more influential among younger viewers — cited as indispensable by fully 25% of those between the ages of 16 and 34. While that’s still far below Netflix’s 53% among this group, it’s just shy of Hulu’s 26% and handily beats ABC’s 15% and ESPN’s 24%. 

However, as one might guess, Disney+ isn’t in the top five among older viewers. The leaders among those 35 and older are CBS (38%), NBC (35%), ABC (35%), Netflix (32%) and ESPN (22%). 

Importantly — as Netflix is well aware, judging from its huge production budgets — the SVOD’s popularity is strongly rooted in its original content offerings. 

Overall, nearly six in 10 (57%) of viewers say that the description of a show as “original” makes them more interested in watching it (with 16% and 41%, respectively, saying it makes them “a lot” and “a little” more interested). 

And Netflix leads by a long shot when viewers are asked which brands produce the best original shows: it is cited by 23%, versus just 6% for runners-up Amazon Prime Video and ESPN. CBS and HBO were cited by 5% and 4%, respectively, on this question. 

The power of hit — or at least visible — shows also continues to be clear, particularly among younger audiences. 

Fully 54% of those 16 to 34 report having signed up for a video service within the past year for the specific purpose of getting access to a show exclusive to that service. Nearly a quarter (22%) of those 35 and older say the same. 

Interestingly, a whopping 61% of Disney+ subscribers in the survey said they have signed up for a new service (not necessarily Disney+, but still…) for that reason. Could this have anything to do with “The Mandalorian”? Just asking. 

Asked what makes them most interested in watching a show, just 32% of the younger viewers — versus 44% of those 35 and older — cite the genre of a show. 

Similarly, 19% of the younger demo, versus 24% of the older, cite the network brand. 

Factors that — according to their self reports, anyway — are more influential among the younger than the older include access to all episodes at once; being recommended by the service provider; a show’s “buzz” quotient; big production values/budgets; and the ease of binge-watching a few episodes:

More evidence that viewers tend to underestimate the influence of network brands on their viewing choices: Just 25% overall say the network a show is on has a significant impact on their decision to watch (rating that factor between 8 and 10 on a 0-to-10 scale).

Another 22% say the network makes little to no difference (rating it between 0 and 2). The remaining 53% fall in between, offering a neutral response.

But the real influence of network brands is demonstrated by a follow-up question designed to tap into underlying perceptions. 

All respondents heard the exact same description of a fictitious crime drama, but different respondents were told different things about the identity of the network that will air the show (17 different sources were tested across the sample).

Result: Interest in watching the show varied significantly by the source it was associated with. Those told it would be a Netflix show were the most interested, followed by Fox, CBS and HBO.

“When it comes to viewing decisions, the impact of ‘brand image’ is a lot like the impact of advertising,” concludes Hub co-founder Peter Fondulas, who co-authored the study. “Most consumers reject the notion that their decision to watch a show is influenced by something as intangible as their general perception of the TV source airing it. But these results demonstrate that brand perceptions play a key role in helping viewers navigate today’s vast TV landscape and decide which shows are at least worth a try.” 

So much for branding’s “irrelevance” in today’s environment.

Launching with over 500 movies and 7,500 TV episodes, the service is competitively priced at US$6.99 per month or US$69.99 per year. Unlike the similar price option offered by Netflix, this single tier also offers access to 4K Ultra HD in Dolby Vision and HDR10, and Dolby Atmos – both only available on Netflix’s most premium tier. 

Content-wise the service is made up of Disney originals such as The Mandalorian, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and the live action remake of Lady & The Tramp; classic Disney content from the studio’s near-century of film and TV; series and movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the highest grossing film of all time Avengers: Endgame; and acquired content like The Simpsons, James Cameron’s Avatar (both of which were acquired in the US$71 billion 21st Century Fox deal) and the first 4K versions of the original Star Wars trilogy.

The service is available on a wide range of devices including Roku, iOS, Chromecast, Samsung Smart TVs and Amazon Fire TV devices. The latter was only confirmed last week, when Disney announced it had reached a deal with Amazon after a reported dispute over advertising rights in Disney’s apps.

The wide range of content, along with ultra-competitive pricing, has many convinced that the service will prove to be a serious challenger to Netflix. Digital TV Research has estimated that the service will top 100 million users by 2025 to become the third most-subscribed-to VOD service in the world, while Shiv Pabari, media sector specialist and director at Simon-Kucher & Partners said: “Disney will hope launching at a relatively low price point will help them get a foothold in what is an increasingly competitive market. They are also set to keep it simple by just having one package, which includes 4K/UHD and the ability to watch on 4 screens simultaneously, features that are reserved for only the most expensive Netflix package. This puts Netflix more than twice as expensive as Disney if comparing like-for-like features, based on the prices announced in the US (Disney hasn’t announced the price for Plus in the UK yet).

“Disney will undoubtedly increase the price over time as it builds out its content set. However it will only be able to do so successfully if it develops it’s offering by putting the customer first. This means not only continual investment in exciting shows and movies but also developing the platform to make discovering new content as seamless as possible.”

A recent study from ExpressVPN has also found that 25% of Brits intend on signing up for the service.

• France: €7.49 per month or €75.99 per year.
• UK: £6.99 per month or £68.99 per year.

Of course, these prices haven't been officially announced by Disney and could be subject to change before the service launches in Europe next year.

However, given that Disney+ costs $6.99 per month in the U.S. (or $69.99 per year), it was pretty much expected that the dollar price would be mirrored in pound sterling.

As for the price in Euros, it's unclear if this applies only to France or to other Euro-using countries as well. We do know that Disney+ costs €6.99 in the Netherlands (€69.99 per year) because of its early trial there, so perhaps we can expect some variation between EU territories.

Otherwise, the annual prices given are equal to 12 months at €6.33/month and £5.75/month, respectively, offering a 16 percent saving over the monthly plan.

The bundle of Disney direct-to-consumer properties will be available for purchase on Nov. 12, the day that the ambitious Disney Plus service is set to bow in the U.S.

Disney chief Bob Iger revealed the plan for the bundle during Disney’s quarterly earnings call with Wall Street analysts. Disney’s fiscal second quarter numbers came in below expectations, a shortfall Disney chalked up to lower than expected performances by key divisions of 21st Century Fox, which Disney formally acquired in March.

“Nothing is more important to us than getting this right,” Iger said of Disney’s aggressive move into direct-to-consumer streaming.

Iger also disclosed that Disney is in talks with Apple, Amazon and Google to distribute Disney Plus and presumably the newly disclosed bundle on their platforms. “We think it’s important to achieve scale relatively quickly and they’ll be an important part of that.”

Iger said consumer marketing for Disney Plus will start to emerge later this month. On the tech side, the Disney Plus team is devoting considerable energy to making it easy for prospective subscribers to sign up. “We know how important it is to create a friction-less experience,” he said.

Disney’s investment in its budding streaming services is only growing. Disney chief financial officer Christine McCarthy told analysts that the company’s Direct-to-Consumer and International divisions are projecting an operating loss of $900 million in the fiscal fourth quarter, up from $553 million loss in Q3 and up from a loss of about $370 million in fiscal Q4 2018.

The Hulu venture is now entirely on Disney’s books, which contributed to Disney’s widening loss in Direct to Consumer and International. Iger said Hulu’s subscriber base stands at 28 million. The Hulu Live digital MVPD service grew faster than any of its digital rivals in the quarter, McCarthy said.

In discussing the Q3 results, Iger emphasized the complexity of the 21st Century Fox integration and the need to invest as Disney makes significant shifts in its business priorities as it bets on streaming as the future of content distribution. Despite disappointing numbers from 21st Century Fox legacy units, including the Star TV satellite platform in India, Iger stressed that the company remains bullish on the $71.3 billion Fox deal.

“Our appreciation of the long-term value that we can create has increased,” Iger said.

Disney Plus will launch with more than 300 movie titles on day one, growing to 400 by the end of its first year. The tall includes eight “Star Wars” pics, four from Marvel plus eight more by the end of year one, 18 Pixar-produced features, 70 from the Disney animation vault and some 7,500 episodes of television. Iger said the Disney Plus originals are coming in strong. He’s watched the first season of “The Mandalorian,” the “Star Wars”-themed live-action series.

“I’ve been really impressed with the quality and the variety and the volume” of original production for Disney Plus, Iger said.

Iger also emphasized Disney’s flexibility with the content it creates. The FX team may produce an original series for Hulu that will have a second window down the road on FX.

Iger acknowledged that the company faces a “balancing act” in the near term as it weighs how much to invest in its new direct-to-consumer businesses and how much it needs to maintain its traditional linear TV operations including ABC, Freeform and FX.

“It is important for us to continue to fuel those channels with enough quality and original programming to support these businesses as they exist today,” Iger said. At the same time, “the pivot to direct to consumer businesses is designed not only to address the opportunity that exists in that space but also address the challenges that exist on the traditional side.”

Iger added that Disney is in the midst of “setting ourselves up in a way to be more resilient than any of our competitors should the traditional side erode so significantly that it is not as viable as it was.”

At an investor day at the company’s Buena Vista studios in California, Disney CEO Bob Iger headlined a presentation that included demos of the Disney Plus app, trailers and behind-the-scenes footage of its exclusive shows like the Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian. It even threw in a new Avengers: Endgame clip for good measure.

Much of the premium original programming planned for Disney Plus leans into the company’s big-budget franchises like Marvel and Star Wars. Some shows —like the live-action, big-budget The Mandalorian —have completed filming and will be available at launch. Marvel spinoffs like a show based on Avengers character Loki and WandaVision featuring Scarlet Witch and The Vision will debut in the first year.

So is the Disney Plus streaming service worth paying for? The details that we know so far are below, but basically: If you’re a parent or you love Star Wars or Marvel movies, you may find yourself considering yet another subscription before the year is out.

What’s the Disney streaming service?

The Disney Plus streaming service will be a competitor to video streaming services such as Netflix. It’s free of advertising, and customers pay a monthly fee to access to a vast library of Disney’s and Fox’s legacy content as well as new, exclusive TV shows, movies and documentaries.

Disney’s other streaming services —Hulu and sports-focused ESPN Plus —will run on the same tech platform so you can subscribe to them with the same password and credit card info. Disney plans for all three to be individual subscriptions, but it said it’s likely to bundle them at a discount.

Hulu will be where Disney streams more adult-oriented fare. For example, Hulu is where a new Marvel collection of grown-up animated series will stream, and it’s likely where Deadpool-like content will live now that Disney owns Fox. Hulu will continue to stream content from three of the broadcast networks and its own original series, like The Handmaid’s Tale and Castle Rock. (ESPN Plus will, clearly, focus on sports.)

Disney Plus will include all of Disney’s family-friendly and much of its mass-audience fare. It’ll have content from Disney proper, Marvel, Lucasfilm (so: Star Wars), Pixar and National Geographic. And, outside those traditional categories, it will also offer all 30 seasons of The Simpsons, a new feather in its cap from the Fox takeover.

When’s the release date?

You’ll be waiting even longer than Avengers: Endgame for this. Disney says it will launch on Nov. 12.

The timing is strategically smart. For one, DIsney Plus can piggyback on the marketing for all of Disney’s big-budget films being released for the holiday season —Frozen 2 hits theaters Nov. 22 and Star Wars: Episode IX will be released Dec. 20.

But Netflix has also shown that the last couple months of the year is when it tends mint some of its biggest viewership. Bird Box, the movie it says was viewed by more than 80 million accounts in its first month of release, came out on Dec. 21. Bright, its fantasy crime flick starring Will Smith, was the company’s most-viewed film before Bird Box —it was released Dec. 13.

How much will it cost?

Disney said the service will cost $7 a month, or $70 a year. Its price undercuts Netflix’s $13 monthly fee for its most popular plan in the US, which lets you stream to two different devices simultaneously in high definition.

Disney Chief Financial Officer Christine M. McCarthy hinted Disney Plus pricing may rise as the service advances, calling the $7-a-month fee an “initial” price.

The company also said it’s likely to bundle Disney Plus with Hulu and ESPN Plus, offering a discount if you subscribe to two or three of its streaming options.

Way back in 2017, Iger noted that the price would reflect the "fact that it will have substantially less volume" than prime competitor Netflix. As Disney has time to funnel more exclusives and originals into Disney Plus, it’s a good bet the company will start tapping its price incrementally higher.

How will this affect Disney stuff on Netflix?

Disney will mostly disappear from Netflix by late 2019.

Since 2016, Netflix has been the first place to watch Disney’s movies with a subscription. That deal meant Netflix was the go-to place for the biggest US blockbusters of the last three years. The top two movies of 2017 and the top three movies of 2016 and 2018 were all from Disney, and Netflix has been the place to binge them all.

But Disney decided against renewing that Netflix deal as it plotted its own competitor. Starting with Disney’s 2019 slate of movies, all those films are destined for Disney Plus. That means Captain Marvel, the first movie Disney is releasing theatrically in 2019, will be the first movie Netflix misses out on. It also means that Mary Poppins Returns should be the final Disney movie that will have some type of release window on Netflix.

Netflix’s Marvel Defenders shows are complicated, though. Netflix has put out five original series based on Defenders characters in partnership with Disney. In 2018, Netflix canceled three of them: Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Then in 2019, Netflix canceled the last two: The Punisher and Jessica Jones. Kevin Mayer, the Disney executive in charge of Disney Plus, has said Disney Plus could possibly revive the canceled shows. But the terms of their original deal could restrict Disney Plus from any revivals until 2020, according to a report.

A third, and now final, season of Jessica Jones is still set to arrive on Netflix sometime in 2019. But after that, all we know about the future of these characters is Marvel Television chief Jeph Loeb teasing fans that the characters will continue in some form. But the only thing for sure about that form right now: It won’t involve Netflix.

Shows and movies: What will I be able to watch?

Disney Plus will include content from the Disney brand itself, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and National Geographic. It will also integrate programming from Fox —all 30 seasons of The Simpsons will be on Disney Plus starting day one, and more titles like The Sound of Music, The Princess Bride and Malcolm in the Middle will join it in the first year.

Disney Plus will be the only place you can stream all of Disney’s theatrically released movies starting with Captain Marvel at launch and the rest of its 2019 slate later on. Frozen 2, for example, will be streamable on the service next summer after its theatrical release in November. Disney Plus will also house the entire film libraries of Pixar, Star Wars and its Signature Series and Disney Vault lines of classic hand-drawn animated movies. (Think Bambi, The Lion King, Snow White and so on.)

And of course, the company is developing a big slate of original, exclusive shows and movies for the service.

Major originals include The Mandalorian, a big-budget series starring Pedro Pascal about a bounty-hunting gunfighter that takes place five years after the events in The Return of the Jedi. A Star Wars prequel series based on Rogue One will star Diego Luna, who played Cassian Andor in the original movie.

And Disney has three live-action series drawing the stars of its blockbuster Avengers movies into their own shows: a Loki series featuring Tom Hiddleston; The Falcon and The Winter Soldier with Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, and WandaVision with Elizabeth Olsen in her role of Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany reprising The Vision.

Disney Plus will have original documentaries, reality shows, competition series, behind-the-scenes features, nature and adventure titles, animated programming —the list goes on.

Even though all of Disney’s movies will stream exclusively on Disney Plus, the company doesn’t plan to debut any of its big-budget motion pictures on the service. Unlike Netflix’s so-called day-and-date approach, which releases most of its films on big screens and on its streaming service at the same time, Disney plans for its tentpole movies, like those in its Star Wars franchise, to run their course in theaters before making them available with a digital subscription.

We do know the service will include shows and movies such as:

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars new season (exclusive to this service).
• Marvel movies, starting with 2019’s Captain Marvel.
• Star Wars films, starting with 2019’s Episode 9.
• Pixar films, starting with 2019’s Toy Story 4.
• The Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian, being developed by Jon Favreau.
• A Star Wars Rogue One prequel TV series, starring Diego Luna.
• A live-action Marvel series focused on Avengers character Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston.
• A Marvel series featuring Scarlet Witch, played by Elizabeth Olsen
• A Marvel limited series focused on Hawkeye, featuring Jeremy Renner
• Possible Marvel series that would team up Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Sam Wilson, aka Falcon (Anthony Mackie), according to Slashfilm.
• A possible What If-themed Marvel series that would imagine what the Marvel Cinematic Universe would look like if different events took place. According to a Slashfilm report, the series would be overseen by MCU head Kevin Feige and would be an animated anthology show. An episode example would reportedly feature how the Marvel timeline would unfold if Loki found Thor’s hammer.
• Marvel’s Hero Project, a documentary series featuring the positive changes several young people are making in their own communities.
• Marvel’s 616 (working title), a documentary series exploring the intersection between Marvel’s stories and the real world.
• An animated series spinoff of Pixar’s Monsters, Inc called Monsters at Work.
• A series adapted from Disney movie Escape to Witch Mountain
• A 10-episode series, Diary of a Female President, about a 12-year-old Cuban-American girl.
• A documentary about Walt Disney Imagineering.
• A Timmy Failure film directed by Spotlight’s Tom McCarthy.
• A live-action Lady and the Tramp remake.
• A Sword in the Stone remake.
• Noelle, a movie starring Anna Kendrick.
• Togo, a sled dog movie starring Willem Dafoe.
• A Three Men and a Baby remake.
• The Paper Magician film.
• A Stargirl film.
• A High School Musical series.
• Encore!, a reality show that reunites former castmates of a high school musical to re-creating their original performances of productions like The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast and Annie.
• A possible Muppets series.
• Earthkeepers (working title), a cinematic documentary series the animal kingdom and people working to protect endangered species.
• Be Our Guest, a Disney-inspired cooking competition at Walt Disney World.
• Cinema Relics: Iconic Art of the Movies (working title), an eight-episode series revisiting beloved films through their props and costumes. Films featured include Tron, Mary Poppins, The Muppet Movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
• (Re)Connect, a reality program that explores divisions in individual families and their journeys with a specialized expert to confront their dilemmas.
• Rogue Trip, a travel guide to misunderstood and overlooked corners of the world.
• Shop Class (working title), a competition among students designing and testing new contraptions.

What shows and movies do you want to appear on Disney’s streaming service? Pop them into the comments section and we’ll keep updating this post with more information as it becomes available.