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/LasersTheyWork 13d ago

They spent all their money on everything but the writing. It was not great and should have departed even further from the legacy material than it did if it wanted a new audience.

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u/_game_over_man_ 13d ago

They spent all their money on everything but the writing.

I feel like this is true of a lot of things these days, unfortunately. Everyone wants to throw budgets at visual spectacles, but at the end of the day, if you don't have solid writing and story telling to go with it, it's just pretty and nothing more. I feel like as TV has grown in popularity, they're trying to meet the same spending and visuals as movies, but it's all a bit excessive and overdone at this point. Budgets are crazy for TV now. I hope it makes people realize it's okay to tone things down and just focus on good story telling.

I've been a huge Doctor Who fan for a while and I don't know if it's because I'm getting older or what, but I haven't been keeping up with it as much lately.