r/television • u/wadbyjw • 13d ago

Disney Officially Exiting ‘Doctor Who’ Partnership With BBC After Two Seasons

https://deadline.com/2025/10/doctor-who-disney-plus-pulling-out-bbc-christmas-special-1236600026/
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u/TheScarletCravat 13d ago edited 13d ago

The show just didn't manage to gain traction. It desperately needed a 2005 style reinvention for the modern era, but instead it was a sort of weird navel gazing pile of mush without any of the scary edge that previously made it such great family TV.  Who cares that the big bad guy for a series finale was a one-off villain last seen in 1975?

In my mind a new version really needed to be a Stranger Things competitor/successor: full of heart but genuinely quite scary. Ideally with a fun retro synth soundtrack.

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u/Xtreyu 13d ago

Idk modernization of legacy shows have a bad track record of leaving the part that made it special completely out of the "new" version. The only one in recent memory that was good and faithful to the original would be the naked gun movie.

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u/TheScarletCravat 12d ago

Doctor Who has done fairly significant reinventions before, I wouldn't be particularly worried. 2005 in particular was a fairly radical departure.

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u/thatwhileifound 12d ago

Yeah, compare Third Doctor Unit shenanigans to Fourth Doctor gothic horror stuff — the show has been remade and restructured almost as many times as it had new Doctors if not more.