XPost: rec.arts.drwho, rec.arts.tv   
   From: agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM   
      
   On 31/10/2025 11:47, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > 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)??   
   >   
      
   These crooks were either spending the money all on themselves or are a   
   pack of disgusting liars. The episodes were all filmed with very small   
   casts, very few or next to no extras, and the special effects were no   
   better than an amateur could do with Blender, Unreal Engine 5, and an   
   RTX 4090 paired with at best a Threadripper. And on top of that the   
   writing was absolute complete and utter shit. No more than about   
   £800,000 could have been spent on each episode at most by the look of   
   them. What happened to the other £179,000,000? Compare with Woke Trek:   
   Woke New Worlds.   
      
   >    
   >   
   >>     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.   
      
   The money all went into Davies's and Bad Wolf's own pockets. Davies,   
   Tranter, Gardber, and Collinson probably all paid themselves annual   
   salaries of £20,000,000 each while they bullied the cast and production   
   team just like they did when they caused Eccleston to quit, and shat all   
   over the audience. That's the only way you could possibly explain the   
   missing millions because it certainly wasn't being spent on the actual   
   show or to hire good writers, assuming these condescending woke bigots   
   are not all lying about how much Disney+ gave them.   
      
   >   
   >>     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."   
      
   Unfortunately the arrogant, fan hating, narcissistic bigot RTD hasn't   
   been sacked so don't expect good writing to overcome the low budget. On   
   top of that the show has been totally dead since 2017 so unless there's   
   a complete retcon of the Timeless Child monster don't expect any   
   broadcaster or streaming service to throw even more money down the toilet.   
      
   What happened to the deal to show Doctor Who in China, where science   
   fiction involving time travel is banned? More lies?   
      
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   stands for." --William Shatner   
      
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