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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Blueshirt  wrote:   
   >Daniel70 wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 31/10/2025 2:51 pm, Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > 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.   
   >   
   >No, the last couple of seasons actually looked quite good, with   
   >[probably] very expensive special effects. So in that way the   
   >quality was quite good. There was a distinct lack of serious   
   >plotting to some of the episodes though, and as I have said   
   >before, it was more style over substance.   
   >   
   >The characterisations were all over the place (Belinda Chandra   
   >is a good example of this) and the reason for doing a lot of   
   >the things in the episodes were simply because they could. In   
   >the 1960's/1970's the show's producers made up for the lack of   
   >a big budget by concentrating on the story. In 2023-25 RTD just   
   >blew the money on big FX and big plans but ultimately dished up   
   >sloppy episodes that seemed to be more about suiting his agenda   
   >than entertaining the masses.   
      
   But still a bad lingering aftertaste of the Timeless Child.   
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