Say it isn’t so! Disney+ has decided to scrap the highly-anticipated Tiana animated series. According to The Hollywood Reporter , the animated series has been terminated as part of Disney’s overall move away from creating original longform content and focus on shortform content, which the company feels is more lucrative for them. A Disney spokesperson confirmed to the outlet that Disney will initiate layoffs in their Vancouver studio as a result of the company’s new business strategy. There are other reasons for the series’ getting scrapped; sources claim that the series “could not get to where it needed to be given production costs.” Efforts to keep Tiana on track included making several changes to the creative team. Deadline reported, “With a Tiana original special now the focus, we hear, it seems that creatively a Tiana series had been going nowhere fast for several years. That creative funk was why all we’ve seen the past four years is a single image from the proposed Tiana...