40 things to stream on Star from Disney+

Star from Disney+ launched recently bringing with it over 75 TV series, 280 movies and a slate of four exclusive Star Originals. Fully integrated into the Disney+ platform, Star joins movies, shows, shorts and originals from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic.

Star has thousands of hours of content from Disney’s creative studios including Disney Television Studios (20th Television and ABC Signature), FX Productions, 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures. We already love Star as there’s so much to stream with more Star Originals, TV series and movies being added each month.

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Star Originals

Star from Disney+ is the exclusive new home of Star Originals. With thrillers, comedies and dramas to crime, action and horror, it offers something for everyone with hidden gems that can’t be watched anywhere else. Here’s a taste of what to expect from the Star Originals.

Big Sky

Big Sky is a thriller by the visionary storyteller David E. Kelley of Big Little Lies fame. Private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt join forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt, to search for two sisters who were kidnapped by a trucker on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover these are not the only girls to have disappeared locally, they must race to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

Love, Victor

From the creators of Love, Simon and inspired by the film, this series follows the story of Victor. A new student at Creekwood High School, Victor is on a journey of self-discovery facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, Victor reaches out to Simon for help in navigating the ups and downs. The film’s original writers Issac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger (This Is Us) are Executive Producers.

Solar Opposites

Solar Opposites is a comedy animation by Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty). It focuses on a family of four aliens who escape their exploding home world, only to crash land into a house in suburban America. Evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome, their mission is to protect Pupa, a living supercomputer, that one day will evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth!

Helstrom

As the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer, this horror thriller follows Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon), and their complicated dynamic, as they track down the worst of humanity — each with their own attitude and skills.

New to Star

Other Star Originals include the series drama Next about a Silicone Valley pioneer who joins forces with a special agent to stop the A.I. he created from destroying the world. Love in the Time of Corona a romantic “dramedy” that follows four interwoven stories. Dollface a comedy about a young woman who, after being dumped by her long term boyfriend, has to deal with her own imagination when she rekindles the relationships she left behind.

Coming soon

There are plenty more Star Originals coming. The Old Man stars Academy Award and Golden Globe award-winner Jeff Bridges, Emmy and Golden Globe award winner John Lithgow, and Emmy and Golden Globe award-nominated Amy Brenneman. Jeff Bridges is a former CIA operative who is forced to reconcile with his past.Y: The Last Man is based on DC Comics’ acclaimed series. It traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better. American Horror Stories is a new anthology series from Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning producer Ryan Murphy, spun off from FX’s biggest, longest-running original drama hit American Horror Story.

Only Murders In The Building follows three strangers (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and find themselves wrapped up in one. Dopesick is an ambitious, harrowing, and compelling look into the epicentre of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, taking viewers from a distressed Virginia mining community to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of “one-percenter” Big Pharma Manhattan. The series stars Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, with Kaitlyn Dever and Rosario Dawson. Finally, The Dropout chronicles the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos. The series will explore what caused the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, once heralded as “the next Steve Jobs,” to lose everything in the blink of an eye.

75 TV Series to stream

We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to the TV series on Star with 75 available to stream. From adult animations like The Simpsons, Family Guy and Futurama to drama series 24, Sons of Anarchy and Alias. Comedies featured include According to Jim, Modern Family and Cougar Town with science fiction series such as Lost, The X Files and Signs. And there’s more, much more!

Desperate Housewives

Looking down on her friends and family Mary Alice takes us into the lives of Susan is a divorcee and single mom who will go to any length for love, Lynette an ex-career woman who traded the boardroom for boredom and mania as the mother of four unmanageable kids; Bree Van De Kamp with a family on the verge of mutiny and Gabrielle Solis an ex-model with a rich husband and a big house, so what is she doing with the 17-year-old gardener?

Prison Break

Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is desperate. His brother, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell), is on death row for an assassination Michael is convinced Lincoln did not commit. With no other options, Michael holds up a bank to get himself incarcerated alongside his brother. Prison Break combines the hope of The Shawshank Redemption, the camaraderie of The Longest Yard and the tense procedure and spectacle of The Great Escape.

Scandal

Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the images of the nation’s elite and keeping their secrets hidden. A former Communications Director to the US President, she left the White House to open her own crisis management firm. She’s hoping to start a new chapter in her life but she can’t seem to completely cut ties with her past.

How I Met Your Mother

A comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love when his best friend, Marshall (Jason Segel), dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, and now wife, Lily (Alyson Hannigan). Ted realised that he had better get a move on if he wants to find true love. Helping him in his quest is Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a friend with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women.

Ugly Betty

Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. The fact that she isn’t traditionally attractive initially keeps her from getting hired by fashion bible, Mode. Hoping to control the situation, the publisher of Meade Publications gives his inexperienced son, Daniel, the position of Editor-in-Chief and hires Betty as his assistant after catching him in a compromising position with his secretary on his first day on the job.

Grey’s Anatomy

The highly beloved cultural touchstone that continues to push boundaries with timely subject matter and characters that break the mold. Follow Meredith Grey and the team of doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial, who are faced with life-or-death decisions on a daily basis. They seek comfort from one another, and at times, more than just friendship.

280 movies to watch

The launch of Star on Disney+ brings with it 280 movies from the critically acclaimed Braveheart, Good Morning Vietnam and The Thin Red Line to action films like Deadpool 2, Avatar and Die Hard and comedy classics like The War of the Roses, Borat and Shallow Hal. Here are a few more just to whet your appetite!

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel and the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, a raging battle for an enormous family fortune, a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis and the sweetest confection of a love affair.

The Devil Wears Prada

A young woman (Anne Hathaway) gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief (Meryl Streep) of a major fashion magazine.

Independence Day

A disparate ensemble of heroes band together to defeat the alien invaders who are exterminating mankind with formidable firepower. On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth.

Pretty Woman

Vivian (Julia Roberts) is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward (Richard Gere) in a chance encounter that turns into a week- long business arrangement. But Vivian’s energetic spirit challenges Edward’s no-nonsense approach to life, and soon they are teaching each other. A timeless rags-to-riches romance.

Moulin Rouge

Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent and John Lequizamo head an internationally renowned cast in
this musical extravaganza. Set in a Paris nightclub that caters to society’s decadent elite, the exhilarating Moulin Rouge follows the story of the ill-fated love affair between a stunning courtesan (Kidman) and a struggling young writer (McGregor).

The Favourite

A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. As the politics of war become quite time-consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen’s companion.

New parental controls

The launch of Star from Disney+ has brought with it new robust easy to use parental controls to ensure the platform remains a family-friendly experience. The main account holder can now set bespoke age-appropriate ratings to each profile (6+, 9+, 12+, 14+, 16+ or 18+). There’s also the option to add a PIN to lock profiles that have access to content with a higher age rating. This works really well and means ten-year-old POD doesn’t have access to content she’s not old enough to watch.

About Disney+

Disney+ is the dedicated streaming home for movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and the new general entertainment brand, Star. Over the next few years, Disney+ plans to add over 50 brand new Originals from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Star along with local productions being created under the Star brand. Disney+ is available on most internet-connected devices and offers commercial-free programming with a variety of original feature-length films, documentaries, live-action and animated series, and short-form content.

Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and Star are available for £7.99 per month. For more information visit Disney+ website