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Doctor Who franchise 2026–?

The whole Jodie/Chris Chibnall era is frustrating. Jodie herself is good, but Chibnall's stories and general phuckery with canon is ehhhhhhh.

Then RTD took over again and we got some fun Tennant/Tate eps, followed by Ncuti who kicked ass and then ran, thanks to Disney being cheap bastards who dumped the franchise back in the BBC's lap and ran themselves.

And now we wait to see how RTD writes himself out of this mess, lol
 
Kyehlar said:
I think I have everything up through the first series of Jodie Whitaker? Kinda fell off after that... never even finished the Peter Capaldi era... I'm a bad Whovian...
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The last few episodes of Capaldis run are his best. Watch hell bent and heaven sent. At a pinch twice upon a time, I only recommend that as it's a two doctor story.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
The whole Jodie/Chris Chibnall era is frustrating. Jodie herself is good, but Chibnall's stories and general phuckery with canon is ehhhhhhh.

Then RTD took over again and we got some fun Tennant/Tate eps, followed by Ncuti who kicked ass and then ran, thanks to Disney being cheap bastards who dumped the franchise back in the BBC's lap and ran themselves.

And now we wait to see how RTD writes himself out of this mess, lol
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You and I remember the RTD II stretch very differently.

Disney dropped DW for two reasons: 1) the ratings sucked. The ratings sucked because the show sucked. 2) Disney really wanted the DW back catalog to broadcast because that's where the money was, but BBC wouldn't go that far... at least not on the initial contract. It's not Disney being cheap, it's Disney cutting loose a bad deal.
 
Why would they enter into it if they weren't getting the back catalog too? That's just a bad business move.

I just canceled AppleTV and then I realized that's the only place the modern era minus the Bi-Generation era is streaming.

Which is why I'm in a "reacquiring" phase now...
 
I feel like the BBC are overly greedy about "Dr. Who." The classic series used to be on lots of public television stations in the 20th century, but the BBC kept upping the price until it eventually died out. It was still on a few stations as late as 2012, but it was the exception, not the rule. Then they did a deal with RetroTV--around 2012, oddly enough--and I binged on classic Who for awhile. But they withheld some key serials. Pyramids of Mars. The 1st Doctor Dalek story where Susan is left on Earth. Others. Then, with much ballyhoo, it was announced that they were retiring some stories so they could get other stories. They got War Games and Tomb of the Cybermen--and lost about half the Tom Baker stories, among others. I think Retro has finally dropped Who. I can never find it on. I don't understand what they accomplish with the brand by making it so no one can watch it.
 
Volpone said:
I feel like the BBC are overly greedy about "Dr. Who." The classic series used to be on lots of public television stations in the 20th century, but the BBC kept upping the price until it eventually died out. It was still on a few stations as late as 2012, but it was the exception, not the rule. Then they did a deal with RetroTV--around 2012, oddly enough--and I binged on classic Who for awhile. But they withheld some key serials. Pyramids of Mars. The 1st Doctor Dalek story where Susan is left on Earth. Others. Then, with much ballyhoo, it was announced that they were retiring some stories so they could get other stories. They got War Games and Tomb of the Cybermen--and lost about half the Tom Baker stories, among others. I think Retro has finally dropped Who. I can never find it on. I don't understand what they accomplish with the brand by making it so no one can watch it.
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I believe Pluto, Roku Channel, and DISH all have a Classic Who channel running through the series. Plus the Classic Who is still on Britbox.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
Why would they enter into it if they weren't getting the back catalog too? That's just a bad business move.
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Well, like I said... they went with funding the first two seasons thinking they could negotiate the back catalog next time. You're right, it was a bad business move.
 
Volpone said:
I feel like the BBC are overly greedy about "Dr. Who." The classic series used to be on lots of public television stations in the 20th century, but the BBC kept upping the price until it eventually died out. It was still on a few stations as late as 2012, but it was the exception, not the rule. Then they did a deal with RetroTV--around 2012, oddly enough--and I binged on classic Who for awhile. But they withheld some key serials. Pyramids of Mars. The 1st Doctor Dalek story where Susan is left on Earth. Others. Then, with much ballyhoo, it was announced that they were retiring some stories so they could get other stories. They got War Games and Tomb of the Cybermen--and lost about half the Tom Baker stories, among others. I think Retro has finally dropped Who. I can never find it on. I don't understand what they accomplish with the brand by making it so no one can watch it.
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I think also the BBC started selling the stories on VHS (remember those?) in the 1990s. I had quite a few of them. That's when they started disappearing on public TV.

Shame too. That's where I fell into DW back in the early 1980s.
 
Kyehlar said:
I believe Pluto, Roku Channel, and DISH all have a Classic Who channel running through the series. Plus the Classic Who is still on Britbox.
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I fucking hate trying to watch it or anything on Pluto. Pluto is a channel filled with cheap, obnoxious commercials with a TV show inbetween.
 
The Beer Hall Pooch said:
I think also the BBC started selling the stories on VHS (remember those?) in the 1990s. I had quite a few of them. That's when they started disappearing on public TV.

Shame too. That's where I fell into DW back in the early 1980s.
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This is so ironic, given the number of stories that were lost because the BBC decided to erase the tapes to reuse them and/or free up storage space.
 
The Beer Hall Pooch said:
I fucking hate trying to watch it or anything on Pluto. Pluto is a channel filled with cheap, obnoxious commercials with a TV show inbetween.
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The experience is ~20% less annoying on The Roku Channel. Unlike Pluto, in the absence of ads, they don't keep playing the same 3 annoying ads for PodcastOne over and over. They show promos for other channels. And they avoid the long stretches of just a logo flying around the screen.
 
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