TV Shows Pulled From Streaming Services After Getting Canceled: From ‘Willow’ to ‘Minx’
usmagazine.comStreamers such as Hulu, Disney+ and Max have made headlines for their decision to cancel shows and subsequently remove them from their services.Hulu surprised users when it announced its plan to wipe shows — such as Alaska Daily and The Company You Keep — which were canceled after one season from its platform.
The plan was originally announced in May 2023 as a corporate-wide strategy to cut streaming costs.“As we grow the business in terms of the global footprint, we realized that we made a lot of content that is not necessarily driving sub growth,” Disney CEO Robert Iger said in a statement at the time. “We’re getting much more surgical about what it is we make.”The decision came on the heels of the HBO Max merge, which combined WarnerMedia (owner of HBO Max) and Discovery (owner of Discovery+) to create a new company called Warner Bros.
Discovery.HBO Max, which has now been renamed to Max, quietly removed several original movies from the streaming service, including Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse‘s Moonshot and the 2020 remake of The Witches starring Anne Hathaway.
The changes also continued to affect TV shows that were canceled amid the merger news.Gordita Chronicles was one of the programs whose fate at HBO Max was short-lived.
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