While we were already pretty sure that Doctor Who was dead after the disastrous last couple of series, but now it seems that showrunner Russell T Davies is telling us as much too.
While it seemed that the series, were it to continue, needed Disney’s support, it now sems that they’re out of the picture, with little to no interest in continuing to part-finance the series movie ahead, meaning the BBC will have to shoulder the whole budget… but they may not want to.
“There’s nothing to report, nothing’s happening,” Davie told Pilot TV podcast, adding: “You’ll know when you know, when we know. I don’t know.”
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Confirming that the negotiations are between Disney and the BBC, he was keen to make it clear that his company, Bad Wolf, have no input to the proceedings: “Conversations are between the BBC and Disney. I don’t work for either of them. I work for Bad Wolf, so I’m not part of those rooms.
“So I literally don’t know.
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“And even people I work with every day, so they couldn’t know what’s really going on. I’m going, ‘I don’t know.’ I really don’t know.”
This is in addition to his recent comments on the show, wherein he said: “I love Doctor Who, but I don’t own it. It’s not mine. So in the end, my heart will always be with the things that I own.”
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Now, that’s not the Russell T Davies who, only a short while ago, before he crashed the show’s whole legacy into a cliff face, was talking about his plans to make Doctor Who a shared universe to rival the MCU.
Yeah, Doctor Who is dead, folks. Or at the very least, it’s dying. And that’s a damn shame,
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