XPost: rec.arts.drwho
From: YourName@YourISP.com
On 2025-09-06 09:33:45 +0000, Blueshirt said:
> solar penguin wrote:
>> Theory11 wrote:
>>>
>>> The BBC waiting until TWBTLAS broadcasts before knowing
>>> what their partners are going to do does not sound credible.
>>> TWBTLAS is hardly going to be the deal breaker or deal maker
>>> in that deal.
>>
>> Maybe the contract between the BBC and Disney says that
>> the BBC can’t announce any other plans for DW until the deal
>> with Disney is fully completed. And that won’t happen until
>> ‘The War…’ is broadcast.
>>
>> Until then, they’re probably legally bound to wait and not say
>> anything much.
>
> That is possible. It certainly would explain the poor PR.
>
> It is the BBC that own "Doctor Who" though, so you'd think they
> would have had some sort of a Plan B for one of their own
> television shows. They surely didn't expect the Disney
> partnership to go on forever! So I can't see that saying a new
> season of "Doctor Who" will air in the summer of 2027 (or
> whenever) would be considered a crime.
The BBC has said the show will continue with or without Disney. They
may even already have a new partner signed up to take over, but legal
embargos stop them from being able to publically announce it yet.
The Disney contract probably also means the BBC is not being able to
accept money from any new partner until Disney's contract is fully
completed (even if that "new partner" is simply re-instating the
previous deals with international TV networks for broadcast rights).
Which would mean the BBC has to wait to start any work on a new season
of Doctor Who until they have the new money come in to avoid going into
a massive debt hole, even if a temporary one - they certainly have very
little spare cash laying around.
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