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Star is a streaming service within Disney+ that features TV and film content from Disney-owned networks and studios, such as FX, Hulu, 20th Century Studios, and more. It launched in 2021 in some countries outside the US and India, and offers local and licensed content in Europe and Japan.
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- Overview
- What is Disney Plus Star?
- Disney Plus Star release date
- Which countries will get Disney Plus Star?
- Disney Plus Star brought a price increase
- Star on Disney Plus TV shows: every series at launch
- Star on Disney Plus movies
- Disney Plus parental controls: how they work
- Star on Disney Plus does feature some 4K content
- Is Star worth the extra money on Disney Plus?
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By Samuel Roberts
last updated 1 March 2021
Your Disney Plus subscription now unlocks a lot more stuff
(Image credit: Disney Plus)
Star has now landed on Disney Plus in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. What does that mean? Well, the same streaming service you've used to enjoy The Mandalorian and old episodes of The Simpsons has now doubled in content – Star brings a ton of new TV shows and movies to the platform, including adult-friendly offerings, for the first time.
The House of Mouse describes Star on Disney Plus as a "new general entertainment content brand", but we think it's best thought of as a new channel within Disney Plus. As of launch on February 23, the Disney Plus app homepage has added the Star tile alongside existing channels Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic.
This is your gateway into the wider content owned by The Walt Disney Company, including titles from Disney Television Studios, FX, 20th Century Studios and 20th Television. In the UK, the launch of Star doubles the amount of content available to stream on the service, Disney confirmed before launch – so it's a significant offering.
You don't have to do anything extra to get Star. It's included with your Disney Plus subscription.
Why does Star exist? Well, while Disney owns Hulu in the US – a great Netflix-style mainstream streaming service with a long history, and the home of lots of Disney-owned adult-targeted content – it doesn't have a footprint outside America. Hulu is sold in a bundle with Disney Plus in the US.
Since Disney owns so much adult-friendly content via the Fox acquisition, it makes sense that the company wants to find a way to stream that stuff to non-US customers directly.
Disney Plus, meanwhile, already has a strong presence in major markets around the world, so rolling all the content into a single app experience saves the headache and significant challenge of launching a new service.
Star was added to Disney Plus on February 23, 2021, and future Disney Plus international launches will include Star as standard.
Star initially launched in 'select international markets', which included Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Local programming is planned for the different regions getting the service – so expect this to yield more Disney Plus originals in future.
When Star launched on February 23, the Disney Plus price in the UK increased from £5.99 to £7.99 per month, and from £59.99 to £79.90 per year. If you're an active subscriber, you get to pay the old price until August 23, 2021. That's the only rub for getting a lot more content to enjoy.
For Disney Plus Australia subscribers, the price increased from AU$8.99 per month or $89.99 per year to AU$11.99 per month or $119.99 for a full year.
A note for UK customers: if your account lapses between February 23 and August 23, you'll be charged the new, higher price when you rejoin, according to Disney.
Disney confirms here that if you're an existing annual UK subscriber and your subscription renews before August 23, you won't pay the new price until the following annual payment.
The TV show line-up for Star on Disney Plus at launch is below, and was provided by Disney a few weeks before the app was updated with the new offering.
The first four originals on Disney Plus via Star have now begun releasing on the service. Love, Victor is a Hulu series about a young man trying to make a fresh start at a new high school while making sense of his sexual orientation, and Big Sky is a Montana-set thriller from ABC about private detectives trying to save kidnapping victims.
The long-awaited animated series Solar Opposites from Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland is also coming to Star, along with the Marvel TV show Helstrom.
New episodes of all four are releasing weekly on the service.
Looking beyond that, there's a lot to look forward to on Star. If Disney makes a new show in the US, you're going to see it first on Star in the UK. Remember, this is all on top of Marvel and Star Wars shows that you're already enjoying on the service.
2021 originals for Star on Disney Plus are confirmed to include Dopesick with Michael Keaton and Rosario Dawson, The Dropout starring Kate McKinnon, a host of FX originals like The Old Man with Jeff Bridges and "new content" from the Kardashian Jenner family.
Below you'll find a list of every Star movie that landed on Disney Plus UK on February 23, which includes a number of Oscar winners. More new movies will be added regularly, with Danny Boyle's The Beach, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Taken and Gone in 60 Seconds coming in the following month.
Note that the final offering on Star might vary – this was correct as of late January 2021.
Within the first year, too, expect to see the X-Men movie line-up bulked out with First Class and the phenomenal Logan, which are confirmed to land on Star.
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Disney Plus has implemented new parental controls to mark the launch of Star. Customers will be asked if they want to opt in to the expanded, 18+ rated library of content when they log in to the app now. The password will need to be re-entered to ensure the account owner is the one verifying any changes.
Parents are then be able to set limits for profiles in the app based on content ratings, protecting children from mature content like the foul mouth of Die Hard's John McClane. A PIN can be used to stop younger people from accessing adult accounts.
There are seven content ratings in total, ranging from 0+ to 18+. The screenshot above shows you the different settings.
For accounts with 18+ content permitted, Star shows and movies will be mixed among the existing Disney Plus offerings, for one massive slab of content.
Not everything that comes from Star is available to watch in 4K – most older TV shows simply aren't available in this resolution – but some movies do support Ultra HD, including the Die Hard series. When you reach the app's homepage, you can scroll down and find the 'Ultra HD and HDR' category, which sums a lot of it up.
Click the 'Details' button in the app to see if a show or movie is available in 4K.
These are early days for Star on Disney Plus, but so far we're impressed by the vast increase in content available to watch on the service. The number of originals planned for future release is incredibly promising, too – meaning we'll constantly have new shows and movies to look forward to that aren't just linked to the Star Wars and Marvel universes.
Fingers crossed it keeps getting better.
Sep 23, 2022 · On Disney+, the Star brand is available in select regions and grants access to a wealth of exciting shows and movies. Here's everything you need to know about Disney+ Star: where it's available, what it provides, how to access it, and more.
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