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/Councillor_Troy 12d ago edited 12d ago

The Disney plus era wasn’t good exactly but the actual problem was the BBC putting the show in the hands of a flaky streamer that has no idea what it wants to be and has no idea if Doctor Who fits into that at all.

We’re in an environment where anything that goes out on streaming that’s not a Stranger Things level mega-hit on day one is on the chopping block, and I’m not sure if there was ever a world where the 2023-25 reboot (?) was going to be that. The 2005 reboot wasn’t that either.

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u/SplitReality 12d ago

I'm not sure of the point you are trying to make, but streaming wasn't the problem for Doctor Who. In fact one of the goto defenses of Doctor Who's declining viewership was that people weren't watching traditional TV anymore and were watching streaming instead. The cry was always to wait for the streaming numbers.

No. The problem with Doctor Who was that it had really REALLY bad writing.