As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year.
Carole Ann Ford, who played the Doctor’s granddaughter Susan in the early seasons of the show, and cameoed again in the most recent series, offers her thoughts on the current hiatus.
BBC director-general Matt Brittin has announced that 550 of the planned 1,800 to 2,000 job cuts at the corporation will be taken from BBC News and TV and radio-related roles.
Big caveat up front, I have no illusion that this was ever planned out, or that it’s ever going to be made. I just connected some dots from Eccleston’s season to our current mess.
I do think that if the BBC had Pete McTighe make a 15 minute special along these lines and put it on Youtube, the fans could rest easier and the next production team might start on a blank slate.
When the show continues, it’s definitely not going to pick up from the Disney season numbering, and for another soft reboot they may want to start at 1 again.
This past year since the show was last on the air, I’ve been rewatching a bunch of classic serials, and quite enjoying the longer format. It’s delightful to have big chunks of story developing over several episodes, not unlike the double (or rare triple) whammys we’ve had in the modern show.
So, this is really only a blip in the current vacuum of Doctor Who news. We're down to fourth hand gossip, but at least this is via Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool. Except it didn't seem to meet BC newsworthy criteria, so he posted it to his substack instead. Probably because it's the sort of hearsay redditors tend to spin into wild conjecture.
I was under the impression that the BBC might be in active talks with potential streaming partners to fund new Doctor Who seasons... but apparently one of the likeliest candidates, HBO, hasn't even been approached:
But we could be waiting a while longer as producer [Jane] Tranter has confirmed that, once the 26 episodes that Disney initially commissioned have aired (which include the spin-off), “then, and only then, does Disney+ have to make a decision about whether or not they want to do more”.
(…) This iconic incarnation will return for a new adventure this Halloween, voiced for the first time by Jon Culshaw, in a full-cast audio drama as part of the horror-themed anthology box set Halloween - Sea Smoke and Other Stories.
Ever since the RTD2 era started, I’ve seen a number of people insisting that Disney is ruining the show, or that they can see the corp’s fingerprints all over it, or other things to that effect. These statements have come not only from the corners of the internet that I’m completely comfortable ignoring, but also from people I respect.
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