[Neil Jones]

Silly question here but how does removing shows that they own address falling numbers and profits? I can’t get my head around the logic.

If you have stuff people want to watch, they'll watch it (and join to watch it).

If you just have a load of stuff that just sits there (and Disney will know what gets watched, what doesn't get watched and how popular anything is from the server logs), and nobody's watching it, then its not contributing to the viewership so it has to go. It'll probably end up in syndication on other channels somewhere in due course, as has happened on other streaming services.

I have some watching to do, as I've been meaning to see some of that stuff listed on the Deadline article, so suppose I'd better get my finger out while I still can.

It comes to something though when Disney+ original content is going to be dropped. All this behaviour does is enforce the underlying fact you don't have this problem with physical media (unless you break the disk or the player or something)