Disney Does Not Own Doctor Who WTF Are Ya'll Smoking
Okay, some of ya'll are leaping to conclusions from a headline, without actually looking into this.
-DISNEY DOES NOT OWN DOCTOR WHO like holy shit. They did not buy the BBC. Disney is in a partnership with the BBC to be the home of distribution of new episodes of Doctor Who starting in 2023, outside of the UK and Ireland. This is the same exact deal that other streaming services like HBO and Amazon Prime have with the BBC when they distribute their shows (Please see: His Dark Materials, Industry, the upcoming The English miniseries, etc.)
-Disney would not have creative say in the future of Doctor Who. Just like how HBO are not the people who are actually making His Dark Materials, Disney is not making Doctor Who. Bad Wolf Productions (who are also the ones behind His Dark Materials) are the ones making the show along with RTD.
-As of right now, Disney has nothing to do with Classic Who or even the previous 13 series of Nuwho. So unless you got your blu rays and DVD's, you still need TWO different subscriptions to watch those because the BBC can't get this shit straight.
-As someone outside of the UK, just want to throw out there that new episodes of Doctor Who were annoying to get to. You either had to have cable that also carried BBC America who also cut scenes from episodes, subscribe to AMC+, buy the episode from Amazon, or torrent it. HBO Max took forever to update their episodes. Legend of the Sea Devils just became available last week, about 5 months after it aired. I'm happy it's going to a streaming service I actually use but I also would've been over the moon if it went to Netflix too. I just wanted Doctor Who to move to a streaming service that was fairly available (Disney+ being available in 60 countries, Netflix is also wildly available. Prime is meh and Paramount+ is still not available in a ton of places and caused a clusterfuck for international Star Trek fans to keep up with their shows)
-We have no idea when episodes will air. I will be annoyed if Disney plans to release episodes a day later, as this would be a backstep to what BBC America offered (although would be in line with when Amazon released episodes) So there's still a lot unknown
-You can stop blaming the end of the reconstructions on this deal and start blaming it on the fact that they had low sales. Like please, the writing was on the wall on those well before this deal would've been finalized.
-Do ya'll really think Russell T. Davies would join a show that was going to censor any gay themes, messages, actions? Look at what he's done recently. This man is not going to make a disney-fied version of the show. Hell, go look at Ncuti's first press photo when he was announced for the role.
-Ya'll need to chill. Doctor Who has been a part of the BBC since birth. Go ahead and google the scandal that BBC gets itself involved in seemingly every week. Because of the BBC we lost most of the episodes from the first two doctors. They've blacklisted Christopher Eccelsto when he spoke out about the poor working conditions. They allowed unsafe work environments for this show, including sexual harassment on set. They've rehired the same showrunner that most of these controversies took place under. They've completely botched promoting this show for the last 9 years. Please, hate Disney with all your heart if that's how you feel, but let's not pretend Doctor Who was on some innocent station and just now sold it's soul. Disney is a billion dollar company and so is the BBC.
I'll totally eat crow if it comes out Disney is censoring the show or affecting it's creative output, but we have no evidence that they would even have the ability to do that with this deal. The most we could see is something similar to BBC America cutting scenes out, which is done due to running times which Disney+ wouldn't even have. So let's take a deep breath, see what happens, and if they're fucking with our show, then let's take the pitchforks out.
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