Disney+ set to crackdown on password sharing
Following in the footsteps of Netflix...
Following in the footsteps of rival streaming service Netflix, Disney+ are set to crack down on users sharing passwords from June 2024, meaning you'll have to pay an additional fee or have your own account to access the service.
Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the news during an interview with CNBC, where he revealed the streaming service will be 'launching our first real foray into password sharing.'
When is it happening?
Although further information hasn't yet been revealed, including any additional fees or how Disney will keep tabs on password sharing, it's understood it will be rolled out in a number of countries in June, before a full rollout in September 2024.
How much does Disney+ cost now?
There's currently three plans available for users in the UK.
Standard with ads: £4.99 per month
Standard: £7.99 per month or £79.90 per year
Premium: £10.99 per month or £109.90 per year
Prices of any new plans are yet to be unveiled.
Can passwords be shared now?
Although the current terms and conditions of a Disney+ subscription state it can only be used within one 'household', lots of users around the world currently share passwords with their family and friends, with no issues on accounts.
Back in September last year, Disney+ updated their subscriber agreement, seemingly hinting that a crackdown in password sharing would be happening soon.
In a lengthy email sent out to current users, the message read: 'Unless otherwise permitted by your service plan, you may not share your subscription outside of your household.
'Household means the collection of devices associated with your primary personal residence that are used by the individuals who reside therein.
'We may analyse the use of your account to determine compliance with this agreement.
'If we determine that you have violated this agreement, we may limit or terminate access to the Service and/or take any other steps as permitted by this agreement.'
Take a look through titles to be added to Disney+ in 2024:
Star Wars The Acolyte
Star Wars: The Acolyte is a mystery-thriller that will take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.
A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.
Renegade Nell
England, 1705. Framed for murder and on the run with her sisters, Nell Jackson turns her hand to highway robbery to survive. Aided by her superpowered sidekick, a plucky little sprite called Billy Blind, Nell realises that fate has put her on the wrong side of the law for a reason, a reason much bigger than she could have ever imagined: to defeat a magical plot against the Queen of England.
A Real Bug’s Life
Enter an unseen micro-verse where a charismatic cast of miniature heroes use mind-blowing super-powers to survive. Fly through the jungle with metallic bees; bungee-jump with a spider in the heart of the city; fight off monsters in a village pond…
Cutting-edge filming techniques and the latest science reveal surprising spectacles and spellbinding dramas right under our noses.
Cristóbal Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga series begins when the designer presents his first haute couture collection in Paris in 1937. Behind him was a successful career in his ateliers in Madrid and San Sebastián, dressing the Spanish elite and aristocracy.
However, the designs that set trends in Spain did not quite work in the sophisticated fashion empire that Paris has become, where Chanel, Dior and Givenchy are the benchmark of haute couture. Guided by his obsession for control in all aspects of his life, Cristóbal Balenciaga would define his style and eventually become one of the most important couture designers of all time.
Black Cake
Based on The New York Times-bestselling book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting, from Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films, and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment.
The story takes place in Jamaica, Italy, Scotland, England and Southern California. Cerar wrote the adaptation and serves as showrunner on the series, which spans decades. In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband's murder.
In present day California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett, loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron and Benny, a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America. These stories, narrated by Eleanor, shock her children and challenge everything they thought they knew about their family's origin.
Camden
How has a small corner of North London changed music as we know it? This evocative series will reveal the extraordinary untold stories of how the lives and careers of many of today's most iconic music acts were shaped by Camden, alongside some of the careers that were broken by it.
With access to some of the biggest music stars in the world whose lives were changed forever by this tiny part of London, this series will finally give Camden the recognition it deserves on a global stage. Confirmed to feature in the series are Dua Lipa, Chris Martin, Pete Doherty, Mark Ronson, Questlove, Little Simz, Nile Rodgers, Boy George, Yungblud, Black Eyed Peas, Jazzie B, Bob Vylan, Chuck D and Sister Bliss.
Marvel Studios’ Echo
Marvel Studios presents Echo, spotlighting Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) as she is pursued by Wilson Fisk's (Vincent D'Onofrio) criminal empire. When the journey brings her home, she must confront her own family and legacy.
Death And Other Details
Set amidst the glamor of the global elite, Death and Other Details centres on the brilliant and restless Imogene Scott (Violett Beane), who finds herself in the wrong place/wrong time and becomes the prime suspect in a locked room murder mystery.
The setting? A lavishly restored Mediterranean ocean liner. Suspects? Every pampered guest and every exhausted crew member. The problem? To prove her innocence, she must partner with a man she despises—Rufus Cotesworth (Mandy Patinkin), the world's greatest detective.
Extraordinary series 2
Season two picks up where season one spectacularly left off. Season one sees Jen, a painfully self-aware 25-year-old woman, still waiting to get hers. She'd take anything at this point.
Adrift in a big, confusing world and armed with nothing but a bit of hope, a lot of desperation and her flatmates, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower. But in doing so, she might discover the joy of being just kind of ok. Starring Máiréad Tyers, Sofia Oxenham, Bilal Hasna, Luke Rollason and Siobhán McSweeney.
FX’s FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans
FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans' is based on the book Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer. Acclaimed writer Truman Capote surrounded himself with a coterie of society's most elite women – rich, glamorous socialites who defined a bygone era of high society New York – whom he nicknamed "the swans."
Enchanted and captivated by these doyennes, Capote ingratiated himself into their lives, befriending them and becoming their confidante, only to ultimately betray them by writing a thinly veiled fictionalisation of their lives, exposing their most intimate secrets. When an excerpt from the book, Answered Prayers, Capote's planned magnum opus, was published in Esquire, it effectively destroyed his relationship with his swans, banished him from the high society he so loved and sent him into a spiral of self-destruction from which he would ultimately never recover.
Modern Family series 11
A five-time Emmy winner for Outstanding Comedy Series, Modern Family, follows the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan, a wonderfully large and blended family with Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neil) sitting at the head. By his side is his vivacious, younger second wife, Gloria (Sofia Vergara), and together they are navigating life with their youngest son, Joe, and Gloria's son, Manny (Rico Rodriguez), who is heading off to college to explore the world on his own terms.
Meanwhile, Jay's grown daughter, Claire (Julie Bowen), and her husband, Phil (Ty Burrell), are learning to navigate life as empty-nesters with the youngest, Luke (Nolan Gould), now out of high school and looking to his next move; middle daughter Alex (Ariel Winter) is learning how to balance academia and a social life, and eldest Haley (Sarah Hyland) is still living at home as she pursues a career and love. Then there's Claire's brother and Jay's grown son, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and his husband, Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), who are about to enter the dreaded middle-school years with their newly discovered, gifted daughter, Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons).
These three families are unique unto themselves, and together they give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Shardlake
Drenched in mystery, suspense and deception, this four-part drama, based on the first novel in Sansom's series, is an eerie whodunnit adventure, set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries.
Shardlake's sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when Cromwell instructs him to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea. The commissioner was gathering evidence to close the monastery and it is now imperative for Cromwell's own political survival that Shardlake both solves the murder and closes the monastery. He leaves Shardlake in no doubt that failure is not an option. Cromwell insists that he is accompanied by cocky, good-looking Jack Barak (Boyle) and Shardlake is left unsure whether Barak is an assistant, or Cromwell's spy. At Scarnsea, the duo are met with hostility, suspicion and paranoia by the monks who fear for their future and will seemingly stop at nothing to preserve their order.
FX’s Shōgun
Based on James Clavell's novel, FX's Shōgun' is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war.
Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village. Its English pilot, John Blackthorne, comes bearing secrets that could help Toranaga tip the scales of power and devastate the formidable influence of Blackthorne's own enemies — the Jesuit priests and Portuguese merchants. Toranaga's and Blackthorne's fates become inextricably tied to their translator, Toda Mariko, who is a mysterious Christian noblewoman and the last of a disgraced line.
While serving her lord amidst this fraught political landscape, Mariko must reconcile her newfound companionship with Blackthorne, her commitment to the faith that saved her and her duty to her late father.
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