Disney Plus UK set to double content through Star, and a price hike

Disney Plus UK set to double content through Star, and a price hike
On February 23, Disney Plus receives Star, a new ``brand'' of entertainment that offers a host of adult TV shows and movies to subscribers of the service. Disney has now revealed what the first wave of this content will bring to viewers and has confirmed that the addition of Star will double the amount you can watch on the streamer. The cast list includes TV shows like 24, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Atlanta, How I Met Your Mother, The X-Files, Prison Break and Black-ish, with a 'selection' of Die Hard movies available too. . Star Originals will also be part of the offer. The only drawback? The UK Disney Plus price will increase to €7.99 per month or €79.90 per year from February 23 (as explained on this help page), though existing subscribers will keep the current rate of €5.99 per month / €59.99 per year until August 23, 2021, according to Disney. The company revealed it in December. This could make it a good time to put in the annual fee if you're a monthly subscriber, so you won't have to pay the new price until 2022. Disney has also confirmed that the first two Star Originals, meaning exclusive content that doesn't you'll find nowhere else in the UK are the well-reviewed crime thriller series Big Sky and the well-reviewed high school drama Love. Victor. In the United States, these are already streaming on the ABC and Hulu networks respectively. You don't have to do anything to get Star content on Disney Plus in the UK; it will be automatically added to the app. Like Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar, Star will have its own navigation tile that you can explore from the streaming service's home page. Disney says Star will become home to "thousands" of hours of television and movies like Disney Television Studios, FX (home to Fargo, Sons of Anarchy and the upcoming Alien series), 23th century studios and XNUMXth century television. Disney owns a lot of stuff, so the number of exclusives we'll see on the platform is likely to increase over time. To help parents deal with new adult content on February XNUMX, Disney Plus said parental controls will separate the entire platform between tiempo para mí '' y time for the kids to ''help''. to keep things in the family, if you prefer. A PIN code and content rating system will block shows and movies reserved for young viewers. Disney says hundreds of upcoming Star titles have yet to be announced; even so, on February 23 we will know what the future of the service will be like.

Why this is good news (especially for adults)

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(Image credit: Disney) It's going to be a big year for Disney Plus. If upcoming big-budget Marvel shows like WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier haven't made you want to stay a subscriber for another 12 months, a payload of more stuff to watch is surely a good incentive to keep going. Is the €2 monthly increase worth it? This first list of confirmed content is promising - it's the kind of library favorites we've seen circulating on Sky, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video in recent years - but if Disney Plus gives them a permanent home, this makes the rise of price is quite reasonable. The other potential payoff, of course, is that Disney Plus offers 4K streaming at no extra cost, so hopefully we'll see some of those Star titles available to watch in Ultra HD. It wasn't mentioned in Disney's Star press release, but we've asked about it and will update if we know more about what's going to be available in 4K. I also hope that we will see the library grow over time, not just with older shows and movies, but with great originals as well. Hopefully Big Sky and Love, Victor are just a small taste of what's to come. What's on our wish list for Star? Disney owns American Dad, Alias, Bob's Burgers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Firefly, and it would be nice to see them make the cut. We also expect future FX exclusives, like the aforementioned Alien TV show from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, to arrive on Disney Plus first, as the US cable network has made many of the best TV shows. of the last two. decades. Star should respond to our longstanding Disney Plus reviews for its lack of adult content. The idea that we'll be seeing The X-Files alongside Lilo and Stitch on the service starting February 23 is strangely exciting, after nearly a year of watching animated family movies. Today's best Disney Plus deals