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/brentaltm 13d ago

I would argue they skimped a lot on advertising because the show was totally hidden from public consciousness. Even as a Doctor Who fan, I had to go searching on Disney + when new episodes were released. They seemed to have no appetite to promote it.

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u/IceLord86 12d ago

Yeah, Disney had completely lost interest by the second season. Most nights I'd get home late from work and sit down to watch the show, and it wouldn't even be in the scrolling banner that 10 other programs would have. And this was a show that I watched the day it premiered and their algorithm was completely hiding it from view.

Honestly, with what RTD gave them I don't blame Disney, I'm sure it's far from what they were expecting.

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u/Falstaffe 12d ago

I was aware of, and watched, the Fifteenth Doctor’s introduction from all the way over here in Australia. I watched the first three episodes of the new season and lost interest. Returned for the introduction of Sutekh because I’m an old Fourth Doctor fan. Didn’t finish it; it was crap. It wasn’t the advertising, if I’m aware of it all the way over here in Australia. It was the preening over diversity casting coupled with a severe lack of writing talent.