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Its not a tax issue, they are generally going to claim the costs of their business against tax when its incurred like any business though someone like D+ has never made a profit so they wouldnt be paying corporation tax in the first place, its more to do with the content being worth less in their books so they have to declare it as a financial loss. If a new series costs $30m and they calculate that they will write the cost off over 3 years to match with subscriptions , but then re-look and say its not worth anything, they hit their P&L with the $30m in year one. They then get to stop paying residuals so thats the cash saving

The Batgirl example, reputation risk is also an issue if it was that bad

or the strike is good for these companies because they get to slow down their release of flops ;-)

I upgraded my Samsung phone this week which I bought last year (trade in) and get ANOTHER 12 months free Disney 🤣

When it finally comes time for me to start paying again it'll prob be €20 a month with inflation

Over the last few nights I watched nat geo mini series "A Simple Light" with Liev Schreiber as Otto Frank and Bel Powley as Miep Gies. It shows how Miep who was Otto Frank's secretary helped the people hiding in the Anne Frank annex.

I'd highly recommend it. It was gripping and showed the sacrifices and risks people took to help during the nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It was hard to watch at times because we all know the ending but you still end up hoping for a happier outcome even though you know it won't come. It was 8 epsiodes but felt well paced and manged to balance all the elements perfectly.

Try to unsubscribe. They might offer it to you to convince you to stay on or you'll just have to hope they're still running the offer the day after your subscription ends.

New episode of Dug Days out today. More Up is a good thing. Called Carl's Date. Enjoyed it.

Wikipedia says he recorded for it in the Spring of 2021. So looks like it was probably the last work he did.

Roku have picked it up

I see they messed up adding Goosebumps. For some reason they only added episodes 3 and 4 instead of the first 5. Looking online it seems to be US and Australia as well.

They fixed it by last night. At one point they had 1,3 and 4.

I noticed they removed it from the banner at the top while fixing it.

Dunno when I'll start it though. Had just been checking to see how long the episodes were.

The first episode of the Influencers series is missing as well. I thought that might be for some legal reason.

Yeah we're up to episode 6, waiting for the next one, However I think they kinda got the release dates wrong for the whole series IMO, as I think the last episode (Ep 10) should be dropping tomorrow (just before Halloween).

Enjoyed the solar opposites Halloween episode

I recently went in and switched my UK subscription ahead of next year's renewal given the auto-enrollment onto the Premium Tier. Very cheeky of them.