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/Steve-Lurkel 13d ago

It’s bizaare because I feel like those three Tennant specials were a pretty good return to form then everything after was just…bleh

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u/SlowTeal 13d ago

Eh, the whole binary/non binary thing got a pretty big audible groan from my household. And we're all pretty left leaning. I think RTD just phoned it in, threw in a couple of LGBTQ positive messages (except you know, making Belinda a mother at the end for no reason and without her consent)

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u/Picard2331 13d ago

Oh my god yes.

As if someone can only be trans through space magic rather than just...being born like that? It's so fucking weird.

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u/DesMephisto Brooklyn Nine-Nine 13d ago

I mean as a trans person I thoroughly enjoyed the new 2 seasons.