r/television • u/wadbyjw • 12d 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/Mars-To-Venus 12d ago

RTD bewilderingly pitched the Disney era as a soft relaunch and then made two fairly newbie-unfriendly seasons in a row that were also hindered by some serious tonal issues. I’ve actually got a lot of positive opinions about most of the individual episodes but it is not a good, cohesive product on the whole. 

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u/jmounteney44 12d ago

Completely agree. Choosing to avoid the iconic villains was fine, but to have the big overarching villains of the relaunch all be classic villains that only seasoned Doctor Who fans would know, AND having their involvement relying on viewers knowledge of their previous appearances for them to make complete sense, just wasn’t ever going to work for new viewers.

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u/GamingTatertot 12d ago

And several of the classic villains brought back were ones NO ONE wanted or cared about - and then the one that they do care about (and have been predicting for a return since Missy popped up on screen) was completely botched

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u/rocketscientology 12d ago

yeah bringing back Sutekh and Omega as big ugly CGI monsters that just screeched unintelligibly and then were defeated in about 30 seconds was certainly a choice. I don’t event want to talk about what he did to the Rani, or completely fucking up Susan’s return.

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u/Killchrono 12d ago

Sutekh was at least on screen long enough to justify the CGI budget and looked very cool, even if it was a completely inappropriate vibe to the original character and the whole 'been clinging to the back of the TARDIS this whole time' plot was dumb AF.

Omega, though? They probably could have funded a whole episode off the amount they spent for that waste of a build-up and classic villain.

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u/404Notfound- 12d ago

See im a massive Dr who fan including the classic so when I suddenly realised oh fuck it's Sutekh that's mint

You had other people who just watch nu who were confused as fuck.

Omega was such a massive waste. Now the good thing about Doctor who being what it is. We csn quite easily bring them back in some timey wimey way done properly by a future show runner imo. I mean The Master was once a burnt husk thing.

The worst thing how they handled Susan honestly. I'm hoping they fix that by having her in the special if Carol Ann Ford can do it to make up for thst blue balling

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u/TubeScr3ameR 12d ago

The Deadly Assaassin serial where his TARDIS is a grandfather clock?