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Discovery+ Adds Mature Content as Streamers Battle for Subscribers

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Discovery+ Adds Mature Content as Streamers Battle for Subscribers

By Movieguide® Staff

Recently, streaming platforms surpassed 1.1 billion subscribers worldwide. Although services like Netflix and Disney+ led the way, an increasing number of digital, newer subscriber-based platforms such as Discovery+ and Paramount+ also piqued user interest.

One of the streamer’s leading strategies to grow their subscriber base is the amount and variety of content they can provide audiences. Unfortunately, the battle for larger audiences does not mean more family-friendly content.

Deadline recently reported that Discovery+—which is home to the Christian renovation couple Chip and Joanna Gaines and other morally uplifting programs—made a deal with a British distributor to add over 250 hours of content.

But added content does not always equate to added quality.

Deadline reported: “Titles included in the agreement include controversial factual entertainment series NAKED ATTRACTION, travelogue GORDON RAMSAY ON COCAINE and doc series GENERATION PORN.”

Among the list of mature shows, NAKED ATTRACTION, as its name suggests, should be cause for concern for parents who want to protect their children.

“A controversial dating series in which people see potential love interests whose naked bodies are gradually revealed to them. Then they must get naked themselves and choose,” the IMDb description reads.

Then, IMDB describes GENERATION PORN as “A series exploring the explosion and effects of internet pornography across the world through those who watch, produce and star in adult movies.”

Finally, “Gordon Ramsay explores the global cocaine trade, observing police as they arrest users and dealers and visiting Colombia, the world’s biggest producer of cocaine,” for GORDON RAMSAY ON COCAINE.

As streamers add hours of content to their platforms, the practice of media discernment becomes all the more critical. Although family-friendly content reaches the largest audience, the fight for the top spot could mean that the safety of children’s entertainment falls by the wayside.

Movieguide® offers resources on how to protect your children from easily accessible and immoral content on many streaming platforms.

Protect Your Children from Non-Christian Worldviews in the Media

What Parents Must Know About Media Literacy vs. Media Wisdom

How to Determine if a Movie is Actually “Family” Friendly

 

Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.