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“It’s an old Disney scam where they slightly rename a series to reset contract terms back to first season,” DeKnight wrote on X/Twitter. “Needs to be addressed by all the guilds/unions and crushed!”

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[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They mention that it is "an old Disney scam", are there other examples of this? I can't think of any but I'm curious to know how those other examples played out.

[–] El_Gryphon@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The suite life of Zach and Cody changing to the suite life on deck

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I looked up this show and it looks like it kept the same creator credits. I do wonder if there was some secret behind the scenes things going on, or if some other shenanigans happened (obviously if it's supposed to be a secret, it's hard to find.)

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago

It's one of their go to moves on Disney channel for their popular series. Suite life, Hannah Montana, lab rats, Liv and Maddie.

[–] rustymitt@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Disney has done this with all the kids shows for years for the same reason

[–] EliasChao@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

“Hannah Montana” changed to “Hannah Montana Forever” for its final season.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not being sarcastic, check out every single Disney series that runs longer than a few seasons. Every. Single. One.

Much like a CEO that gets fired by the shareholders if he misses and avenue for profit, I have no doubt that CEO would fire producers that didn't do the same thing.