Star Life

Star Life (formerly known as Fox Life) was a pay television network in Latin America, launched by the Fox Networks Group in 2005. The network's scheduling varies with each version, ranging from traditional entertainment programming, including television series, sitcoms and films.

Star Life is operated by Disney Media Networks Latin America and The Walt Disney Company Latin America, both of which are owned by The Walt Disney Company.

On January 10, 2022, it was announced that the Latin American version of Star Life will shut down on March 31 along with the Latin American versions of Disney XD, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Kids and FXM and the Brazilian version of Disney Junior. In that country, Star Life is expected to be replaced with a local version of Cinecanal.

Why has it closed?

 * Reruns: Star Life broadcasts the programs no longer broadcast on Star Channel, which is not profitable. Is it false that they call it a channel oriented to the female public?
 * Because they wanted to bring Cinecanal to Brazil (only in Brazil): This is something that LAPTV has never done 29 years ago, not even Fox when it owned Cinecanal. Since Disney needed a new space in the providers of Brazil to put Cinecanal there and that was going to cost a lot of money, the best thing they did was to replace Star Life in Brazil with Cinecanal.
 * Focus on Star+: On August 31, 2021, Star+ arrived, a separate Disney streaming platform from Disney+ with more adult-oriented content. Its subscribers are very few to those of Disney + since it was launched only in Latin America and despite this, Star Life will be closed due to its strategy of having more subscribers in Star+.

Probability of returning
Despite the fact that streaming is the future, some nations are not prepared for this and channel closures must be regularized in those countries so that they do not affect people without Internet access.

It is speculated that the channels could be relaunched when Disney admits its mistakes or Bob Chapek leaves the company and his successor CEO takes care of it.

As for a possible future return, Star Life could only return in Hispanic America since in Brazil it was replaced by Cinecanal, so Brazilians will not have Star Life again in the future.