Greys Anatomy has been pulled from Sky (Picture: ABC)

Disney has pulled more than half of its boxsets from Sky as it prepares to launch its Netflix rival in the UK next year.

So if you were hoping to watch popular series such as Greys Anatomy, Scandal, and the Marvel shows with a selection box you cant, because Sky has removed them.

It comes after Disney confirmed that Disney Plus will be launching its very own channel in the UK early next year but what does that mean for viewers wanting to watch Disney on Sky?

Sky-users dont need to panic as they have assured viewers that they will continue to air Disney.

Our customers love Disney content and we have a long-standing relationship with Disney that we expect to continue, a Sky spokesman told The Guardian.

With a 7bn annual war chest to strike deals to keep prime content on pay-TV, Sky is expected to pull out all the stops to try to keep Disney on-board in some way.

Sky cant afford to lose so much content and they will be trying to retain access somehow given Disney also needs its crown jewels to make Disney+ work, added Richard Broughton, an analyst at Ampere.

After the streaming service lands, subscribers will have access to the likes of The Mandalorian, Mary Poppins, Malcolm In The Middle, The World According to Jeff Goldblum, The Simpsons, Ms. Marvel, WandaVision and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Disney has also promised that all Pixar movies will be streamable on the platform within a year of its launch and that from its first day, youll be able to use it to tune in to the MCUs Captain Marvel.

This will put us over four months behind the US, whos going to be getting access to the streaming service from 12 November.

It was also recently reported that Netflix lost one million subscribers due to Disneys new streaming service Disney+.

The new service offers those in the US access to pretty much every single film and TV show that the company has had a hand in creating; from all the animated classics you know and love to newer, snazzier content.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, analytics firm Cowen & Co. ran a poll that suggested 24 million people in the US had subscribed to Disney+ and there was an 80% overlap where 19.4 million also subscribed to Netflix.

The survey also suggested that 5.4% of Netflix subscribers had cancelled their membership after signing up to Disney+ a speculated loss for the streaming service of around 1.1 million users.

Disney+s plus big draw was, The Mandalorian the first Star Wars live-action TV series, which is an exclusive to the streaming service.

It was already a big deal, but with the introduction of meme machine Baby Yoda at the very end of the first episode, the show took over the world.

In fact, the little green cutie seemed to break the internet itself and he managed it just by sipping a steaming cup of soup.

Disney Plus will launch in the UK on 31 March 2020.

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