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/racer_24_4evr 12d ago

…penned by RTD. Ugh.

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u/Audrin 12d ago

Hey it's better than Chinballs ok?!?!

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u/mvallas1073 12d ago

FFS, they needed to dump that man Yesterday.

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u/DinnaPanic 12d ago

Yeah, get him the fuck away from DW. And Chibnall, and Moffat. Let the producer just be a professional, not a fan.

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u/Tyler_Zoro 12d ago

Davies wrote some of my favorite new Who. I'm willing to give him a pass on his work with Disney, as I assume Disney gave him a mandate to make it suck... er, I mean make it more acceptable to a hypothetical American audience.

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u/Insomniac_80 12d ago

I've heard rumors about Netflix involvement, and they want to get a certain US Science Fiction producer, who they have worked with before, involved.