Coming up, I'm going to talk about how Disney Plus could be adding user-generated content. Also, we're talking about the bare season 4 and much more. But before we go any further, make sure you do hit that subscribe button to keep up with the latest Disney Plus News. I encourage you to hear from what's on at DisneyPlus.com, it's time for a quick Disney Plus News roundup. Let's start off talking about user-generated content. So let's put this into context. So basically, according to an article from CNBC, Disney has been having meetings like they would do, we expect them to do all the time, and regularly, YouTube gets brought up about what to do, you know, and this comes from a two different side. So on one side, YouTube is just growing. YouTube TV has just got bigger and bigger and bigger, but also just a growth of YouTube. So many people are using it, and that takes up nearly 10% of all television viewing. It's drastically growing, and it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And yeah, we're really seeing this change. And so Disney executives are looking at, you know, they've talked about the idea of bringing user-generated content onto the platform. Now this kind of opens up in a couple of different ways. Now, very much a case of nothing's happening. This is just talk about what executives have been saying. This could be spitballing, brainstorming, you know, that kind of thing. This thing might never happen, but they want to try, obviously, to increase engagement. And user-generated content could be that. Now, I do not think for one second that they're going to be talking about just turning Disney Plus into a YouTube or TikTok where anyone can just upload anything they'd like at any given point and put them out there. Because that just seems to go against everything that Disney Plus is, you know, about quality, you know, having, you know, having parental controls in there. Opening up Disney Plus just to anyone to putting stuff on there just is, I just do not believe that for one second. Yeah. I do not get that. I just cannot see how that would be good. You know, they'd be could be putting up, people could be putting up videos with heck, they could be putting uploading versions of Batman or, you know, you could be putting, you know, like, violence, porn, anything like that could be put up there. And it's just opening up the PR nightmare. It's just, I cannot see that happening. However, there are some ideas that maybe they could look at a different way. And that is, you know, you could submit content to maybe be looked at Amazon, do this. Whereas if you are a content creator, they can look at your content and view that it, you know, that it is, you know, worthy of being on the platform as of highest quality, it doesn't break any rules, they can rate it and allow kind of a way of that content to come through. You know, there's a lot of YouTube content that's currently doing very well on who Lord Disney Plus is like a Diane show and these other things that have come from YouTube. They got brought up by a big company and then they've ended up being distributed out because the quality is so good. Mr. Beast, for example, if you were to put Mr. Beast episodes on to Disney Plus and they were paying him for doing it, that to me is high quality content that could work. There is that counter-argument and I see it a lot where a lot of people, parents are upset with some of the kids stuff that's on Hulu that they don't think is the highest quality. So there is a problem with that. But I don't see there is an issue of, you know, if you've got a YouTube channel that makes a really good show and they can then essentially say to Disney, like we would like to put it on there and obviously they get some money back, you know, that could work. But the idea of just, it uses just uploading stuff. It just, it's like, I can't see it because that basically turns Disney Plus into a social media platform and there is a lot of problems with that because suddenly then they would be deemed, you know, yeah, it would just be a political nightmare, a legal nightmare. I think just a nightmare overall, it just does not seem to be the right thing for Disney Plus. But like I said, I could see there being an opportunity to maybe as creators, we submit stuff. So, I mean, the chances of like me uploading my video and saying here we go, Disney, you want to put this on. It's not going to fit, you know, that it's probably not high enough quality and I would agree with that. But more importantly, and this is where the problem comes in is control because, I mean, there's a massive Disney community online, all making videos, I mean, I think of some great stuff like the Funkland makes amazing documentaries about Disney Parks and stuff that goes on and histories of stuff like this and that is really good. And you could think that that could be a good bit of content for Disney Plus, you know, maybe you've also got options as well where you got like theme park vloggers and stuff like that going to park, but the problem is with all of this movie reviews, et cetera. The second we go would go into being critical, that is where would Disney want it on there? Would they want that kind of criticism? You know, look at the way the acolyte reviews and stuff are going on right now. Do they want Disney Plus flooded with reviews from critics like talk about how bad it is? I just don't think this is doable. I don't think that can work, but I do think that they could still like pull out some of the cream of the cream and get some of the best stuff in there. I think that's not a bad thing and we'll just license a bit more content. That's good. But I think this entire idea is just some executives spitballing and more importantly, trying to save money because why spend millions of dollars making new seasons of Star Wars and Marvel shows and things like the Bear and Grey's Anatomy and all the people that you have to employ and all the rules and stuff. When we can just say to somebody on YouTube, "Oh, that's...we don't even have to...we barely have to pay for that." Yeah, it's cheaper. Obviously, it just does not feel right. So I think there's definitely an issue there. There's also the question about what to do with YouTube in terms of the company itself, how they use YouTube. They were looking at like, you know, do they ignore it, do they care it, carry on? Definitely see like with the Disney channel stuff. They do upload a lot of episodes on there. They definitely seem to be embracing YouTube and putting content because they know it has such a big audience, young viewers, that you kind of want some of the other stuff there to make some money and to grab audiences to pull them into maybe Disney+ at that later day. Generally know, Disney tends to seem to treat YouTube more as a promotional piece where it's trailers, clips, featurettes and things like that. They have made some shows specifically for YouTube, but they don't seem to do that as much. They've kind of pulled that back. I mean, we've had shows like the Jedi Temple Event Challenge thing, that kind of went on to YouTube and it was supposed to be Disney+ didn't really do a lot to do it. And also, what's up Disney+ was a show that they used to run and they used to have these other shows that they used to have on the Disney+ channel. They all kind of faded away, probably much more expensive to make. Yeah, it got me a lot more expensive than me just sat here, you know, for an hour a day, you know, filming and then editing it and putting it up there. You know, when they've got a full team of camera crew and scriptwriters and presenters and lighting and then it's going to go through legal and all the rest of it, I ain't got any of that. You know, I make this video and in about an hour's time it will be up on YouTube and that'll be it. And I'm doing the entire thing from scratch. So the costs involved for me to make this video are very, very low and obviously Disney would like that. But once they start involving all these other things, something, a show that's not pulling in enough use isn't really financially worth it, though they did try and get sponsors and stuff. Yeah, YouTube is definitely something they need to concentrate on, something they need to, you know, be aware of and need to use. But the idea of user-generated content on Disney Plus, I think that is a disaster waiting to happen. Yeah, maybe like I said, have a submission system so you can kind of weasel out and get rid of some stuff that's not good enough. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, there's lots of different, you know, there's so many different shows and stuff that's on YouTube that, you know, it's like, could that work? I mean, I like watching like Warhammer Battle Rip game, you know, were they playing the games or, you know, if they're playing magic games or all this kind of stuff or video games, I just don't see how that is going to translate very well to Disney Plus. And also, I think the quality would be reduced. You wouldn't be able to find anything if you're trying to find a show or a movie. I mean, they could have a user-generated area, but I don't know. It just seems like, it seems like an idea that I think they definitely should explore. I definitely think it's something that they should investigate and work out the things. But I definitely feel like the, your initial reaction and the initial reaction from when this story went out, most people were like, this is not what we want for Disney Plus. If you don't become YouTube, don't become TikTok, you know, if, I mean, they could've, they did that 1.1 of by Twitter, but they decided against it. And I just think this is a really bad idea, hope they don't do it. But yeah, keep an eye out for some creators on YouTube to maybe do something with. But what do you think of this? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this in the comments below. Shifting gears now, let's now talk about the bear. So season three dropped yesterday on Hulu and Disney Plus and on Hulu and the US, Disney Plus in many countries around the world. I am slowly working my way through season three and I'm on episode eight, so I've still got a couple more to go enjoying it. I don't think it was good as the previous seasons, but nevertheless, so one of the things with this show was when it got renewed for season three, there was a lot of talk and reports that they were actually going to try and film seasons three and fall back to back because obviously the stars of the series have just blown up, they are popping up on everywhere. They're all kind of, so they're scheduling for trying to get all these actors in place is going to get harder and harder to do. And also more importantly, it's going to get more and more expensive for Disney to keep bringing them back in. So expectations are that the fourth season would be the final one. Now apparently I'm doing a press event earlier this week when asked about whether or not they were filmed seasons three and four together. The cast kind of reacted a little bit funny with it and were like, well, we did some stuff, but not fully. It looks like apparently FX then confirmed that they filmed some stuff for season four, but not all of it and is scheduled to currently come back in 2025 to film ready for obviously release next year. Yeah, I think again, the scripts weren't ready apparently as well and at the end of the day I'd rather they have this extra time to get the scripts right and get it done properly. This way they've got, you know, good six plus months now to get these scripts done. The show needs to be the best because this is a really high quality show. But yeah, so they didn't quite manage to do what they were expecting. I see why they're doing it, but it also reminds me a little bit with Atlanta where they've filmed three and four together because essentially at that point, the show was dumb. I can't see the bear going much beyond that, but I also have a question really of where forever this series can go because at a certain point, you're like, if he's got his restaurant and so on, where can they go? But let us know what do you think of the bear looking forward to a fourth season. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that in the comments below. Let's now talk about what's new on Disney Plus today. So the new release is a brand new series from Disney Junior called Arrow, which is based on the classic Little Mermaid. This one here is again, new series. They did release some shorts earlier. So if you're interested in this show, I'm sure little kids are going to love it. But let's have a check it out. Not target audience. Not really something. I'm going to bother probably watching also today. If you're on Disney Plus internationally, we've got a new episode of Criminal Minds Evolution. And if you're in Canada, you've got the new documentary Bratz. We're going to be getting that one next week here in the UK. So I might check it out them, but let us know what you're going to be watching on Disney Plus. I'm still trying to catch up on the bear, so that's what my plan is over the weekend. But let me know in the comments below. Another question of the day, which comes from Tristan, who says, "Hi Roger, with Disney being focused on trying to save money and cut costs, do you think the days I've seen legacy content are over because I certainly feel that way?" This is a great question and comes up a lot. A lot of people do comment about the fact of legacy content just not being added to Disney Plus. And this in some ways kind of counter-balances, and I saw a few people respond with this with the topic I did earlier about user-generated content. I'm like, "We don't need user-generated content. There is hundreds, if not thousands of movies in the Disney catalog, especially from 20th century studios, from the 30s to 40s to 50s, et cetera, that aren't on Disney Plus. They've got all these shows, House of Mouse. They've got all these different things from 20th television, going back nearly 100 years, all these shorts that they haven't got. There's stuff on YouTube that they've not yet put on. You've got this massive collection of library content and you're just focusing on new stuff. They definitely need new stuff. New thing is what brings people in. It brings in audiences. It keeps people engaged. New is good. New is what we need. New movies, stuff. But legacy content is important. I think the problem is, essentially, they hit the pause button. They stopped everything when they needed to start making money, and legacy content just went right out the window. Any plans that they had for putting stuff on, we've had a few things drop here and there. The odd show, the odd movie, next month I should say, we're getting like angels in the outfield. Just random things, just like one or two things, not enough to really set stuff up personally rather than spending money on user-generated content or even just making one extra series. I would put together a team there and be like, right, we're just going to focus on getting legacy content out constantly, just get that. This is something that Disney has, which Netflix doesn't have. They've got all this history, all this stuff that they could use, and it's not going to break. It's not going to break the bank to get that all on there. Obviously, there's licensing issues, quality issues, they might have to scan stuff. There is costs involved. It's not free. It's not just taking a VHS off and loading it into Disney Plus, but it just feels to me like they've sat on this massive library and they're not utilizing enough. They've got all the good stuff in there, all the stuff that the most people are going to want with the big popular films and shows, but there's a lot of stuff that I think they could just flush out the platform, make it. If they added in a thousand more titles from their back catalogue, it would look better against, and also, it is quality stuff. This is classic stuff. I know black and white movies and stuff, they might not feel there's a market for it, but this could be really good for older viewers as well, or just people that are into movies. It might not bring in a huge amount of viewers, but it's just more content, more stuff to keep people engaged, and if you've got advertising running on it as well, they're making money. Also, if I was restoring a show or a film, pop it out on digital to buy, even sub-life and set out to be or something like that for little bits, to get a little extra cash in that way, to cover the costs of doing it. To me, it does feel like legacy content, they've just abandoned because it's like they've got their main stuff, it's just not bringing in, it's not maybe just not bringing in what they want, especially some of these shows and stuff that they could put on there. It is very disappointing that there's this massive hole, and there's different things all over the place, different shows and different movies that they could use. They are restoring stuff, they are bringing stuff back. There obviously is costs involved in this, but for me personally, as I just said, I would much rather they attacked the history and the legacy and get that on Disney+ rather than trying to get cheap content from YouTubers, or even essentially just make one or two less shows, but just really just kind of leaning on it. There's a whole host as well of content, which we never really got on Disney+ and they've got all the sports or the hot star content, there's loads of things on there that they could put on there, but instead it just doesn't feel like there's any, all we've got is the new companies or the new studios pumping out new stuff, and that goes to licensing deals and everything goes into it, and there's no one actually trying to do anything, it just is how it feels. There might be one person, but maybe they're doing it all themselves and that's why it's taken so long, but one little title a month is not a lot. I think they need a lot more than that and there's definitely opportunity there, but great question, let me know what you think about all of this in the comments below. We've got a great question as well, drop it in there as well, on Monday I'll then pick that one up. Also this weekend I'll have a Q&A on Sunday, but on there no guys, thank you very much. See you guys soon. 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