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It would be a tragedy if it weren’t a comedy. The BBC had a chance to combine the longest-running and most successful sci-fi television show in the world with a family entertainment juggernaut with truly global reach, and they screwed it over by being entirely unable to keep their own “current year” peccadillos in check. Instead, Doctor Who was treated as a vehicle for their personal axe-grinding.
As a result, it is now dead. Drifting in space like a disabled TARDIS, with the ongoing involvement of Disney in serious doubt after ratings collapse and audience desertion.
Fear not, says the BBC. Doctor Who will continue with or without Disney. Kate Phillips, the BBC’s new chief content officer, has appeared at the Edinburgh TV Festival and aimed to shoot down concerns and speculation about the franchise’s future:
“Rest assured, Doctor Who is going nowhere. Disney has been a great partnership – and it continues with The War Between The Land And The Sea next year – but going forward, with or without Disney, Doctor Who will still be on the BBC … The TARDIS is going nowhere.”
Disney is widely expected not to extend the original two-season deal after the latest version of the show failed to chime with audiences. Showrunner Russell T Davies had already said, in an interview with Doctor Who magazine, that he doesn’t know what’s happening next with the show.
Ncuti Gatwa exited the lead role in a surprise/not surprise regeneration scene at the end of the last season.
There was a little excitement online when the TARDIS turned up briefly in a scene in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Doctor Who and Star Trek have often referenced each other with small Easter Eggs, and in the recent episode Space Babies, Ncuti Gatwa’s first full episode, he told Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) that they should visit the Enterprise sometime.
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