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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Selected programming for June 8-14, 2024
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 09:04:18 -0700
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On 6/9/24 6:39 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 6/8/2024 11:09 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 6/8/24 8:43 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 6/8/2024 8:46 AM, Robin Miller wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>          Thursday, June 13
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      Streaming:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brats        (documentary)      (12:01 am, Hulu)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrew McCarthy directs a documentary about a subject he knows all 
>>>>>> too
>>>>>> well: the group of young film actors known as the "Brat Pack" who 
>>>>>> lit up
>>>>>> the screen in the 1980s. The film finds McCarthy reuniting with stars
>>>>>> like Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Ally Sheedy, as 
>>>>>> well as
>>>>>> sitting down for an interview with journalist David Blum, who 
>>>>>> originally
>>>>>> coined the "Brat Pack" term in a 1985 article. 1h 32m.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxVNQkRM5Qw
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15823728/
>>>>>
>>>>> This is not fair.  I don't have Hulu!
>>>>
>>>> Do you have Disney+?
>>>
>>> That's not how it works - you have to have the Duo (or Trio) plan to get
>>> Hulu via Disney+. If you just have Disney+, you don't get access to Hulu
>>> content.
>>
>> Ah. I somehow get both Disney with Hulu as well as Hulu Ala carte and the
>> two Hulu accounts don’t seem to know about each other, though they use 
>> the
>> same username and password. It’s all free so I don’t pay much 
>> attention to
>> where it comes from. I didn’t realize Disney without Hulu still existed.
> 
> I just got an email from Hulu yesterday with a promotion.  I think I 
> might be eligible for it since I got the email.  But I headed over to my 
> Disney+ account this morning and there was no option I could find to 
> even add Hulu or anything else to it.  I'm sure it must be there 
> somewhere if I dig deep enough.  But the problem has never been I 
> couldn't add Hulu, it was there was no option to add it to the annual 
> plan, and I don't want to downgrade to monthly.

When I did it, I had to use chat assistance for help. But my case was 
complicated as in order to sign up for the (new) Duo plan, I had to 
cancel my Hulu sub and then sign up through Disney+ to get the Duo plan 
with Hulu. It was a pain.

BTW, this is the page for the Duo/Trio plans:

https://www.disneyplus.com/welcome/disney-hulu-espn-bundle

But, like I said, you canNOT activate this on the Hulu side, only on the 
Disney+ side. And I'm not sure they ever offer "special deals" on these.

> Most of my streaming service plans are either annual so I pay once and 
> forget about it or free through cable.

My Peacock and Prime are annual - I will renew Peacock annual soon, but 
I have to decide what to do about Prime since they changed my plan on me 
halfway through.

Max and Pee+ I get ("free") through my cable. And I don't have Netflix 
right now, and have no real incentive to get it, even during summer...