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Disney Still Remains Hopeful About Its Doctor Who Deal

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Doctor WhoThe Disney+ era of has a lot more to come. It began with a trilogy of 60th anniversary specials starring David Tennant as the 14th Doctor (who bore no resemblance to the 10th), followed by the recently concluded first season starring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor. It’s confirmed that another season of Gatwa is on the way, but given stories of big budgets and low ratings, what’s next? At this point, it’s unclear, but today a glimmer of hope has emerged.

Liam Keelan, Disney’s senior vice president of original programming for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said: Doctor Who Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival, deadline I will report.

The trade publication noted that Kieran “has not committed to renewing the show’s co-production deal with the BBC beyond next year’s season, which will be overseen by showrunner Russell T Davies.” did He says: “[Doctor Who] It’s a great series. It’s completely BBC rights in the UK, obviously. The BBC has the rights everywhere else. But I’m really, really happy to get this series. The quirkiness of it, the fact that it’s a sci-fi world, and what Disney has to offer in other ways, it’s a really good fit for me. So it’s great to get this series.”

Only Kieran Doctor Who Recently, the number of Disney fans has been increasing. At last month’s San Diego Comic-Con, Doctor Who Spin-off, Battle on land and seais currently in development as a co-production between the BBC and Disney.

io9’s SDCC report noted that the five-episode series “will follow an international crisis on Earth as the Sea Devils, an ancient underwater race introduced in the 1972 classic ‘The Sea Devils’ and more recently reintroduced in 2022’s slightly less classic ‘The Legend of the Sea Devils’, emerge from the ocean to reveal themselves to humanity on a global scale. With no help from the Doctor, UNIT steps in as humanity’s first and last line of defense… war rears its head and threatens to plunge the world into chaos.”

Written by Davis and Pete McTighe Battle on land and sea Familiar Stars Doctor Who Jemma Redgrave stars as UNIT’s Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Alexander Devriant as Colonel Ibrahim, with Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw joining the cast as as-yet-unnamed characters. The film is currently in production, so it won’t be available on Disney+ in the US for some time. Doctor WhoHowever, the 15th Doctor’s adventures are set to return later this year, starting with the Christmas special, “Joy to the World.”

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