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Disney+ and Hulu Raise Prices Again, Ad-Free Plans Now $21.49

Disney+ and Hulu Raise Prices Again, Ad-Free Plans Now $21.49

Disney today increased the prices on several of its Disney+ and Hulu streaming plans, with the increase coming exactly one year after Disney's last price hike . Premium ad-free plans are $2 to $2.50 more expensive per month, while Disney's ad-supported Disney+ and Hulu plans are $0.50 higher per month. The ad-supported Disney+ and Hulu bundle has not changed in price, and that's what Disney is steering customers toward. Disney+ (Ads) - $12.49, up from $11.99 Disney+ (No Ads) - $21.49, up from $18.99 Hulu (Ads) - $12.49, up from $11.99 Hulu (No Ads) - $21.49, up from $18.99 Disney+, Hulu Bundle (Ads) - $12.99, no change Disney+, Hulu Bundle (No Ads) - $21.99, up from $19.99 Disney+, ESPN, Hulu Bundle (Ads) - $21.99, up from $19.99 Disney+ (No Ads), Hulu (No Ads), ESPN Select (Ads) - $32.99, up from $29.99 Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max Basic (Ads) - $21.99, up from $19.99 Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max Basic (No Ads) - $34.99, up from $32.99 Bundles with ESPN or HBO Max are also $2 to $3 more expensive. Buying a standalone Disney+ or Hulu plan is just $0.50 cheaper per month than getting a bundle, both with ads and without. Disney is pushing bundles because it has been merging Hulu content into the Disney+ app to create an all-in-one experience. When Disney+ launched in November 2019 , it was priced at $6.99 per month. It did not have ads at the time, with Disney introducing its first ad-supported plan in 2022. Pricing for the no-ad option has increased more than 200% in nearly seven years. Apple's streaming TV service launched right around the same time as Disney+ for $4.99 per month. Today, the Apple TV service is $14.99 per month, also a 200% increase. Other streaming services like Netflix and HBO Max raise prices regularly too. Disney's higher prices go into effect for new subscribers today, and for existing subscribers on their next monthly bill. Tag: Disney This article, " Disney+ and Hulu Raise Prices Again, Ad-Free Plans Now $21.49 " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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Sep 23, 2026 · byMacRumors
Jake Paul’s Betting App Slams HBO After Cease and Desist Letter Sent Over ‘Entourage’ Reunion Ad: HBO ‘Does Not Own Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Jake Paul’s Betting App Slams HBO After Cease and Desist Letter Sent Over ‘Entourage’ Reunion Ad: HBO ‘Does Not Own Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Jake Paul’s gambling app Betr has fired back at HBO after the cabler sent a cease-and-desist letter over an ad reuniting “Entourage” stars Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier. In the letter, HBO threatened legal action if the commercial was not taken down, arguing that the three-minute spot infringes on its intellectual property and was made […]

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Sep 22, 2026 · byVariety
Kit Harington Says Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series Was a ‘Very Simple “Yes, Please!”’: ‘I’m a Bit of a Nerd for It’

Kit Harington Says Joining ‘Harry Potter’ Series Was a ‘Very Simple “Yes, Please!”’: ‘I’m a Bit of a Nerd for It’

Kit Harington didn’t think twice when he got the call to join HBO’s “Harry Potter” series as Gilderoy Lockhart, admitting that he’s “a bit of a nerd” for the wizarding world. Speaking on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the “Game of Thrones” star revealed the personal connection he has to the “Harry Potter” books […]

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Sep 21, 2026 · byVariety
John Oliver Takes Swipe at David Ellison and His ‘Business Daddy’ Larry Ellison on ‘Last Week Tonight’

John Oliver Takes Swipe at David Ellison and His ‘Business Daddy’ Larry Ellison on ‘Last Week Tonight’

When we last saw John Oliver behind the desk of “Last Week Tonight,” he was mocking Trump for sacrificing a number of members of his senior staff on a decoy plane amidst his peculiar catering truck escape in Turkey. On Sunday night, the funnyman returned to his Emmy-winning HBO series after a monthlong summer break […]

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Sep 21, 2026 · byVariety
John Wilson on his unlikely concrete movie: ‘There might be a kind of sickness in shooting things this way’

John Wilson on his unlikely concrete movie: ‘There might be a kind of sickness in shooting things this way’

The creator of How To with John Wilson has returned with his first film, a documentary about how to sell a documentary about concrete As mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has frequently demonstrated impressive media savvy, but arguably nothing has proved his genius for in-the-know promo more than a video , released in April, with the documentarian John Wilson . The spot, in support of the mayor’s plan to reduce the presence of the city’s ubiquitous sidewalk sheds, suggested that either he or someone on his team was a fan of How To With John Wilson, the film-maker’s cult-beloved HBO series that remains a taste signifier for alt-humorous New Yorkers. And for good reason: over three near-perfect seasons, Wilson, armed with his ever-present camera and diffident, memoiristic narration, explored the city’s disintegrating streets with a singular eye for the weird and unintentionally hilarious, turning the most mundane of NYC preoccupations – public restrooms, parking spots, scaffolding – into profound meditations on the glories, indignities and absurdities of modern life. Continue reading...

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Sep 19, 2026 · byThe Guardian
Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’

Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’

The author of The Corrections talks about a new TV adaptation, the future of reading and why creating new work is ‘horrible’ When HBO dropped its plan to adapt Jonathan Franzen’s bestselling novel The Corrections in 2012, the author was so relieved he says he performed his first and last cartwheel on the lawn of his home in Santa Cruz, California. There had been an attempted film adaptation before that, but he had been unsurprised by its failure, having warned that it was impossible to condense his densely plotted doorstopper of a novel into a feature-length film. This time, Franzen had signed up as co-writer, with filmmaker Noah Baumbach. He says that HBO was “excluded from the development process. Mistake, because we didn’t know how to do TV.” Franzen himself hadn’t even owned a telly until a few years earlier and certainly didn’t have cable, so as he was wrestling with the script, he began renting box sets. Around three episodes into one drama series, he realised “we have no idea what we’re doing. This is not how you do TV. This is bad,” he recalls. The result, he says, was “one of the worst pilots anyone has ever made”. Franzen used to think TV was the “enemy” of the serious novelist. In a well-known 1996 essay for Harper’s Magazine about the decline of high literature he had complained bitterly about the “banal ascendancy of television”. But after the HBO series failed, he watched Breaking Bad, Nurse Jackie and Silicon Valley and loved them. In the age of social media, AI and the endless scroll, TV has started to look like a “friend”, he says now. And The Corrections is finally being adapted into an eight-part Netflix series, with Meryl Streep playing Enid Lambert, the matriarch clinging to dreams of hosting a perfect last family Christmas, even as her husband Alfred is in terminal decline with Parkinson’s and dementia and their grownup children’s lives are falling apart in terrible, comical ways. Once Streep announced she was in, Franzen felt the “chances of making this show have gone up above 50%”. He says he’s a month away from finishing the script. Continue reading...

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Sep 19, 2026 · byThe Guardian
Rachel Sennott Hot Shots To Slay Her 31st Birthday!

Rachel Sennott Hot Shots To Slay Her 31st Birthday!

Rachel Sennott is turning 31, and we're celebrating the actress' big day with a sizzling trip down memory lane ... and all her sexiest snaps under the sun! From cleavage-baring 'fits to triangular two-pieces, the HBO hottie has mastered the perfect…

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Sep 19, 2026 · byTMZ
The Guide #261: There is so much good telly this autumn you may never go outside again

The Guide #261: There is so much good telly this autumn you may never go outside again

In this week’s newsletter: From HBO’s incredible divorce drama War to the hilarious return of The Paper, there’s too much TV to choose from even for a confirmed addict like me For those of us who like to stay indoors, it has been a bad summer. The World Cup ate up all traditional television scheduling, and the streamers apparently declined to counterprogramme. The Bear came and went before anybody noticed, and House of the Dragon conclusively disappeared up its own bottom. If you’re anything like me then you clung to the good stuff (basically Disney’s Furious and nothing else) like a life raft, eking out new episodes like someone in a desert sucking condensation off the underside of a tarpaulin. But forget summer. It is now autumn, and television is back. In fact, I can’t remember a time when television has come roaring back with quite the same ferocity as it has this month. Continue reading...

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Sep 19, 2026 · byThe Guardian
HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Music Will Be ‘As Far Away as Possible’ From the Movies; Hans Zimmer Says ‘I Can’t Write Like John Williams’

HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Music Will Be ‘As Far Away as Possible’ From the Movies; Hans Zimmer Says ‘I Can’t Write Like John Williams’

While the trailers HBO has released for its upcoming “Harry Potter” reboot share a lot of similarities with the original movies, the music will be totally different. In an interview with Collider, Hans Zimmer spoke about the how intimidating it was to follow the footsteps of iconic composer John Williams. “Harry Potter” marks Zimmer’s second […]

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Sep 18, 2026 · byVariety
Javier Bardem to Star in Drama Series ‘The Spread’ at HBO From Bill Dubuque, Sean Sansiveri

Javier Bardem to Star in Drama Series ‘The Spread’ at HBO From Bill Dubuque, Sean Sansiveri

In a highly-competitive situation, HBO has given out a straight-to-series order for the drama “The Spread” with Javier Bardem attached to star and executive produce, Variety has confirmed. The project hails from writers Bill Dubuque And Sean Sansiveri, who also executive produce alongside Bardem. This will be Sansiveri’s first credited TV writing role. Matthew Vaughn […]

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Sep 18, 2026 · byVariety
HBO Lands ‘The Spread’ Starring Javier Bardem With Series Order After Big Bidding War; Miami Drama Comes From Bill Dubuque & Fifth Season

HBO Lands ‘The Spread’ Starring Javier Bardem With Series Order After Big Bidding War; Miami Drama Comes From Bill Dubuque & Fifth Season

EXCLUSIVE: The fall TV selling season is off to a hot start with a star package triggering frenzied bidding and a slew of big offers from all major streamers, ultimately landing at HBO with a straight-to-series order. The Spread, headlined and executive produced by Oscar winner Javier Bardem, hails from Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque, Sean […]

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Sep 18, 2026 · byDeadline