Chris

Three scripted serials released since the service launched 5 months ago, for a total of just 28 30-40 minute episodes. It’s not brilliant - barely more than one full season of one broadcast series.

Granted there’s more scripted stuff in the pipeline, but based on the info in the wiki it’s not going to amount to more than 100 episodes, and based on their present form they’re going for 30-40 minute running times rather than the hour long format that’s more common in made-to-stream content.

Disney above everyone else has the financial firepower to absolutely ace this, but they do seem to be resting on brand power to draw people in. I maintain that the only thing that truly makes the difference between competing streamers all charging £5-£10 a month is the quantity and quality of their original commissions. (Which is why I’m ignoring the generally poor quality, shrill, studio based (or worse, handycam fly on the wall format) unscripted rubbish all the streamers are equally guilty of).

By this time next year Disney is going to have to be doing better than this.