Doctor Who: Is Disney Pulling The Plug?

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[Matthew_Paul]

I've broken your toy. Here, take it back, I don't want it anymore.

[Wheelie]

Disney and the BBC might stop making it, but they will never allow anyone to recreate the show in the style that the fans want.

[greensun]

My concern is that they WON'T kill it off.

[DrWarbird]

Doctor Who didn't "return". The Doctor is dead. He was killed by the Frankfurt School and BlackRock's funders. Replacement...

[grandmufftwerkin]

It's now firmly Doctor Who cares.

[lokai]

No, Jodie Whittaker was NOT a fine doctor. She wasn't THE DOCTOR. It was not her gender, it was the appalling writing.

[Jonas-ljul]

How can Disney be disappointed in the performance or financial return? They did the same thing to the Doctor that they've done with Star Wars, Indiana Jones and the Marvel franchises. Disappointed kind of implies the results are UN-expected. If ANYONE at Disney DIDN'T expect the same results from the same idiotic practices, then they shouldn't be entrusted to wipe themselves after using the toilet.

[Scoley]

They jumped the shark with “the timeless child” but instead of realizing that and course correcting ..They were like “We need a bigger more diverse and inclusive Shark”

[Valkron]

Im 53. Grew up watching Tom Baker as the Doctor every Sunday night. It was always a show for nerds, like me. It really didn't matter the nationality or race, nerds normally were into Who. Unfortunately the show was taken over by people who hate the fans, like Star Wars, Halo, and almost everything else these days

[bazzzzz]

Ironically, that zenith, with Matt Smith, Moffat and Amy/Clara was when I started to lose interest.
The interest hasn't returned.

[richardcorwin]

My personal favorite Doctor Who is Tom Baker as he was the first Doctor that was openly televised here in the U.S. Now it's more like Doctor WTF??

[michaelc]

Congrats to Disney! You ruined another IP!

[thePsiMatrix]

"Tackled racism" - if, by that, they mean '2 minutes at the end when she gets her only real friend killed and then tells Ncuti that she doesn't want to go with him' then yes it "tackled racism" and fell on its arse.

[c.c.hiliner]

I never tire of the episodes!
Well Done!

[paulaburrows]

It's a rotting corpse. Who'd notice if the plug got pulled

[Humans_Eh]

With the current state of Dr Who. Disney need to be wary of pulling 'the plug'. You don't know where it's been...😮

[countofdownable]

Ive been watching since Jon Pertwee turned into Tom Baker. Stopped watching during Capaldi's era.

[chrisgenson]

I used to watch Tom Baker's Dr.Who every Sunday morning. It was low budget, but it was entertaining and intelligent. I'd love to see the new series budget get cut because it would force the creators to do more, and better, with less resources. 'The Message' would have to be dumped pretty quickly.

[naparry]

Doctor Who being a 'lower budgeted production with a primarily UK-based audience' sounds good to me. It was always the eccentric Britishness of the show that was appealing - something that has been thrown away in place of CGI cartoon-ery and complete betrayal (by RTD) of what the show is about. But I don't think we'll be that lucky. Why should the BBC continue to invest in a show that now only pulls in 2-3 million viewers?

[fredo]

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