In early May, Disney announced it would be removing various titles from its streaming services, Hulu and Disney+, in a move reminiscent of Warner Bros. Discovery late last year.
Despite Twitter bullying the company into keeping the 2018 documentary on The Little Mermaid animator Howard Ashman (as its live-action remake hit theaters), it wasn’t able to save over 105 titles on the chopping block. Disney gave audiences a week to watch these titles before they were permanently removed from the platforms as a cost-cutting measure.
Rosaline, Willow, Cheaper by the Dozen (2022), and several other titles with recent premieres have been removed. Older fan favorites like Marvel’s Runaways have been scrubbed from both platforms. With no physical releases or complimentary YouTube uploads, there’s no way to watch most of these shows legally. It’s possible we could see these shows resurface on a FAST service, but that remains to be confirmed.
In a recent statement, Disney CEO Bob Iger expressed his vision of shifting towards a strategy of producing fewer but higher-quality content offerings. With a renewed focus on profitability, Disney aims to prioritize theatrical releases for films and reduce the production of generic shows.
All of the following titles were purged under the masses’ noses during Memorial Day weekend so that it would go fairly unnoticed. Here’s a list of all the titles removed from both Hulu and Disney+ in North America.
Disney+:
America the Beautiful
Among the Stars
Artemis Fowl
Be Our Chef
Behind the Magic: The Making of Willow
Best In Snow
Better Nate Than Never
Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear
Black Beauty
Big Shot
Chasing Waves
Cheaper by the Dozen (2022)
Chorus: Success, Here We Go!
Clouds
Club Mickey Mouse
Diary of a Future President
Disney Fairy Tale Weddings
DisneyNature – Penguins – Life On The Edge
DisneyNature – In the Footsteps of Elephants
DisneyNature – Diving With Dolphins
Earth To Ned
Encore!
Family Reboot
Fauci
Flora & Ulysses
Foodtasic
Gina Yei
Harmonious Live!
Hollywood Stargirl
The Hip Hop Nutcracker!
It’s A Dog’s Life With Bill Farmer
It’s All Right!
Just Beyond
Low Tone Club
Magic Camp
Marvel 616
Marvel’s The Runaways
Marvel’s Project Hero
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
More Than Robots!
The Mysterious Benedict Society
On Pointe
Own The Room
Pentatonix: Around The World For The Holidays
Pick Of The Litter
Prop Culture
Queen Family Sing-Along
Race To The Center Of The Earth
Rogue Trip
Shop Class
Stargirl
Stuntman
Super / Natural
The Big Fib
The One And Only Ivan
The Quest
The Right Stuff
The Real Right Stuff
The World According To Jeff Goldblum
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Turner & Hooch (Series)
Willow
Wolfgang
Hulu:
Best In Dough
Black Narcissus
Chasing Virgins
Chef vs Wild
Conversations with Friends
Darby And The Dead
Damned Fate
Dollface
Everything’s Trash
Fearless: The Inside Story of the AFLW
Future Man
Hache: Let’s Not Talk About It
Insanity
It Was Not My Fault
Keep This Between Us
Limbo
Little Demon
Looking for Alaska
Love In The Time Of Corona
Love Trip Paris
Maggie
Marvel’s The Runaways
Mask vs Knight
Motherland Fort Salem
Pistol
Prime Time
Queen Family Sing-Along
Repatriated
Reprisal
Rosaline
The Bomber
The Cry of the Butterflies
The Come Up
The Deep End
The Heartthrob: TV Changed, He Didn’t
The Heir: The Freestyle Dynasty
The Hot Zone – Seasons 1 & 2
The Next Thing You Eat
The Premise
The Princess
Together as One: Celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage – A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
Wilderness of Error
Y: The Last Man