Willow was surprisingly entertaining. It’s a Disney owned IP, Disney production so it’s strange to be pulled off after only a year.<p>I wonder if they had really high payout terms for this and Y (a high profile adaptation of a great comic book that was one of the worst tv shows I’ve ever seen) and so it’s cheaper to remove it than pay residuals.<p>This makes me wonder that there’s some payout just for including it rather than just based on number of views.<p>Netflix never removed their own content so I guess Disney and HBO are doing something dumb with the licenses they set up.
Was just thinking about how some shows are simply seen as not to exist at all because they are not available on streaming services<p>When in reality, the best quality stuff that already had licensing agreements are the things not on streaming services<p>Makes it hard to tell a friend about something that they cant watch in their included subscriptions at no additional cost, or discover on your own<p>This is broken, need something similar to cable style discovery or something else besides piracy
Related Planet Money:<p>Dude, where’s my streaming TV show?: Why platforms like HBO Max are removing streaming TV shows<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161382179/hbo-max-disappearing-shows-series-streaming-warner" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2023/03/06/1161382179/hbo-max-disappeari...</a>