Spencer Matthews Disney+ Doc ‘Discovering Michael’ “Debut Date Shifted” – Deadline

Some confusion this weekend within the UK, as viewers ready for a much-hyped documentary on Disney+ discovered they have been unable to view it. 

Widespread TV actuality star and podcaster Spencer Matthews has been doing the publicity rounds all week, publicising his documentary Discovering Michael, set for its premiere on Disney+ on Friday 3 March. 

The documentary follows Matthews as he units about trying to get well his late elder brother Michael’s physique from Mount Everest, the place he went lacking in 1999 after turning into the youngest British climber to scale the summit. 

However viewers eager to comply with the story discovered they have been unable to look at the documentary on the Disney+ app, with Matthews later posting a message on Instagram to say the date for debut had been postponed, no purpose given:

“Apologies to everybody attempting to view Discovering Michael on Disney+. The debut date has shifted and we’ll replace you as quickly as we now have the timings.”

Followers are dismayed on the bumping of the premiere date, not least as a result of Disney has very successfully saved underneath wraps the movie’s denouement – no critics or followers who’ve but watched the documentary have revealed whether or not or not Michael’s physique was found and efficiently introduced house. 

Michael Matthews went lacking in Might 1999. He had scaled the summit of Everest, turning into the youngest British climber to take action. Spencer was 10 when his brother went lacking, and it was solely in 2017 {that a} stranger despatched by way of {a photograph} from Everest – together with an unclear depiction of a physique sporting a summit go well with the identical color typically worn by Michael – that Spencer started to analyze the potential for retracing the identical floor himself. 

The truth is, Spencer Matthews spent the complete six weeks of his time on the mountain at Base Camp, and the movie contains each his up to date expertise and pictures of his brother Michael throughout his final days alive greater than 20 years earlier than.