It has been progressively getting worse. Give it a rest. Let it come back in ten years with new leadership and fresh ideas.
Yes. Back as purely UK production with 0% of Disney involved.
More dead than it was in the '90s?
I think that’s a bit hyperbolic.
First, while the franchise is in limbo at the moment, we will hear some official news after the spinoff “The War Between the Land and the Sea”, which is rumored to release in April 2026. That news is likely, “Disney decides to focus elsewhere, BBC to consider continuing funding.” Which will be followed by, “BBC says Doctor Who to return with a holiday special in 2027”.
So yeah, that’s a gap, but not the end of the world. Maybe it’s a 2028 holiday special, but still not the end of the world.
Second, this article largely talks about the book series. I don’t know much about the book series. I do agree no one is going to write about future Doctor stories until whatever the plan for Billie Piper is revealed, but do authors not write stories about old Doctors? Hell you can still write Ncuti stories as the “current” Doctor.
Doctor Who isn’t a world of strict canon and rules. Yes, within a given series things should make sense, but from series to series? Things can be timey-wimey.
I just searched for Doctor Who news and found a bunch of articles dating all the way back to August saying pretty much this. The spinoff will be next year, at which point Disney will decide if they want to continue with more Doctor Who. If they bail out, the BBC will be continuing it without Disney. I’ve never gotten into any of the books or radio shows or whatever, so I don’t know who this auther is, but someone should tell him how to use the internet to find information before making wild statements. One example, among many:
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/doctor-who-bbc-future-confirmed-ncuti-gatwa-disney/
Hell you can still write Ncuti stories as the “current” Doctor.
Thanks to time travel, they’re still making new content with The Thirteenth Doctor.
its crap.
I tried watching ncuti’s doctor and it was shit. The beauty of Dr who is that it’s simply done. Not all this green screen bullshit. Take a look at cybermen from old who and you’ll see what I mean. There is too much shiny for me in nu who
the fans think ncuti is too over the top and dramatic, compared to the others, even whitaker played a better doctor than he does. from the parts ive seen alot of the big bad enemies were instantly defeated or forgotten in a episode or 2.
Ive never had a good vibe about RTD.
Like, okay, he brought the show back. Congratulations. Why the focus on crude, sometimes borderline fetish-y humour?
Why Torchwood? Why have one series about murdering children to get a drug high, and follow it with one of the ‘heroes’ being a serial killer pedophile whose last act is to declare hell chase his victims into the afterlife?
RTD coming back gave me bad vibes. I’ll gladly look for someone new to pick things up instead.
torchwood is also wierdly sexual/fetish for the leads.
