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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 31/10/2025 2:51 pm, Your Name wrote:   
   >   
   > The actual reason is that Disney *never* planned to bother with Doctor   
   > Who long-term. All they wanted was a popular show to try to con more   
   > people into signing up for their streaming service. They wanted to get   
   > as much as they could (which was very little anyway) and then toss the   
   > show aside and look for another show to scam potential customers with.   
   >   
   >   
   >     Report: Why Disney Dropped Doctor Who:   
   >     Big Budgets, Poor Ratings, and "Too Woke"   
   >     -----------------------------------------   
   >     Hollywood trade publication Deadline has published an in-depth   
   >     report exploring the reasons behind Disney's decision to walk   
   >     away from Doctor Who.   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >     According to the outlet, several people close to the show   
   >     described an early lack of enthusiasm from Disney. One former   
   >     Disney executive told Deadline, "It was pretty apparent from   
   >     early on that this wasn't for the long term. Everyone got the   
   >     impression that it wasn't doing what it needed to do   
   >     [on Disney+] to be sustained."   
   >   
   >     Another person close to Doctor Who added, "The writing has been   
   >     on the wall for ages. There has been a complete lack of   
   >     enthusiasm over at Disney."   
   >   
   >     Deadline's sources said the partnership quickly came under   
   >     pressure after Bob Iger returned to Disney and began cutting   
   >     costs. A former Disney executive said they soon detected "regret   
   >     at spending so much on Doctor Who," noting the show's estimated   
   >     budget of between £6 million and £8 million per episode. "It   
   >     certainly wasn't being shouted about as a big success," the same   
   >     source added.   
      
      
      
   In the pre-Disney+ era, didn't someone here suggest the per episode   
   Budget was in the relmn of hundreds of thousand of Dollars/pounds??   
      
   If they've now been spending 6 to 8 million pound per episode, did the   
   quality of the episodes increase by a factor of 5 - 10 (if at all)??   
      
      
      
   >     The financial implications of losing Disney's funding are   
   >     significant. A former Disney executive estimated that the BBC will   
   >     now be able to spend "at most £2.5 million to £3 million per   
   >     episode," compared with up to £8 million under Disney. "Once you've   
   >     gone up, it's always difficult to go back down," the source said.   
   >     "You can cut budgets to a certain degree but not by so much."   
      
   Cutting the Budget can certainly effect quality .... but reading here,   
   it seems the quality *IS* fairly abysmal already.   
      
   >     However, others told Deadline that a smaller budget could actually   
   >     work in the show's favour. One former Doctor Who executive   
   >     explained, "Budget limitations used to help the idiosyncrasies of   
   >     the show. Big budgets can cause a problem, but the budget was   
   >     nowhere near as big as The Mandalorian, so they were stuck in the   
   >     middle."   
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   Daniel70   
      
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