Disney Plus Star channel coming to UK — with a price hike

Disney Plus Star channel coming to UK — with a cost hike

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Your Disney Plus subscription is about to get a higher price and a lot more content, equally the House of Mouse expands its UK library with a host of new content. This change volition virtually double the streaming service's current size.

This is all because Disney owns a lot of stuff that isn't typically "Disney" thanks to its merger with Fox, and all of this content is coming in the new Disney Plus Star aqueduct, on February 23.

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We first heard about this news during Disney's 2020 investor telephone call, and information technology marks a large chapter in Disney Plus's lifespan. Originally Disney maintained that its streaming service wouldn't include content rated higher than PG-xiii (equivalent to 12 in the Great britain), but things change.

The Star channel, named after the Bharat media company Disney also acquired from Fox, is going to join the other Disney Plus channels you will have seen already: namely Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, Pixar, and traditional Disney content. And it's set to become the abode of mature content. What Americans call R rated, or what Brits will recognise as xv or eighteen rated.

Earlier the worst you'd encounter on Disney Plus is The Mandalorian using a door to slice someone in one-half off screen, or some raunchier episodes of The Simpsons. Only from February 23 information technology's going to go a lot less kid-friendly.

The Star launch line-up includes the shows 24, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Atlanta, How I Met Your Mother, The X-Files, Prison Break, Blackness-ish, and "a selection" of Die Hard movies. It'due south not clear which ones, but the announcement trailer on Twitter includes clips from Die Hard 3 and v.

At that place's more to be announced before launch day, notwithstanding, and since the trailer includes clips of Family Guy, we can safely assume that will exist available also.

Introducing Star, a new globe of entertainment coming to Disney+ 🤩+ More Series + More Movies + More than Laughs + More than Thrills + More Originals 🤯Salve the date for the 23rd February! *tries to contain excitement* pic.twitter.com/1vJxnRKLv0January 4, 2021

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Star will likewise exist home to new original content, and at launch there will be two shows. Large Sky, is described every bit "an intense thriller that follows private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt equally they bring together forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt, to search for two sisters who accept been kidnapped past a truck commuter on a remote highway in Montana." Just they realise more women have been taken and have to race against the clock to detect them.

Besides coming is "Dearest Victor", set in the universe of 2018's "Love Simon" and "follows Victor, a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at dwelling, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of loftier schoolhouse."

Of course existence mature content, the launch of Star will as well come up with new parental controls to keep kids out of content they shouldn't be watching. The "kid-time" setting will keep everything family unit friendly, while "me-time" unlocks everything Disney Plus will have to offer. A PIN system volition also keep kids from accessing mature content.

Disney Plus price hike

The downside is that your Disney Plus subscription is about to get up. Until February 23 it'll be available for £v.99 a month or £59.99 a yr every bit it has since the launch of the service terminal March. Simply on that day it goes upwards to £7.99 a month or £79.90 a year. That's a big leap, merely we're getting a lot of new content in render. Plus, it's even so cheaper than Netflix'south standard subscription.

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