Shows originally billed as Disney Plus originals reportedly found themselves shunted elsewhere, to avoid putting their costs on the service's tab
on The Disney Channel before heading over to streaming—specifically so that the costs for those series wouldn’t go on Disney+’s ledger, thus making the service look more profitable than it actually is. Which is all a little shell-game, especially for a company this big and ostensibly successful;The irony of all this is that Disney+ was actuallyeportedly delayed his departure from the company until 2020 specifically to help get the streaming service off the ground.
conveniently missed the period over the last two years in which media giants have needed to come to terms with exactly how profitable one of these services both can be, and needs to be, leaving Chapek seemingly
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