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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Agreed, but they also need the library. I assume they will be adding originals on a regular basis.
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That would be a reasonable assumption, except for the fact that Disney made this very error when it launched in late 2019 (spring 2020 in the UK). They traded on their back catalogue for far too long and I’m not convinced the Star branded stream within the main Disney+ app was part of the original plan - it really doesn’t fit the branding it has otherwise used, which is based on established feature film production company brands, and looks very much bolted on, as if they felt they needed to add a lot of new and original material quickly, and the very modest pipeline of TV shows based mostly on movies out of their Marvel and Star Wars properties wasn’t going to produce enough content, quickly enough.
Paramount may indeed dodge that bullet, but as a major established film & TV studio there is always the risk it will assume its back catalogue is so great it will do too little for too long. We shall just have to wait and see.