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[oktay]

‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series

There is so much speculation swirling around 'Doctor Who,' it's like a meteor shower has engulfed the Tardis. One thing is certain: ratings are down.

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[Marc]

‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series

There is so much speculation swirling around 'Doctor Who,' it's like a meteor shower has engulfed the Tardis. One thing is certain: ratings are down.

deadline.com

The was some budgetary benefits from the deal with mouse but putting onto a streaming platform for those outside the U.K was probably detrimental to the viewing numbers.

 

[Marc]

Story that Gatwa has been axed.

Published in one of murdoch’s Australia rags but originally from the sun so it blames things like “woke story “.

Obviously the hack who wrote it has zero knowledge of the show’s history.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/television/star-axed-from-iconic-tv-role-after-just-two-seasons/news-story/377efb7e2f4e1617ff82f76d9b98ef0a

 

[The Wormhole]

^^Already debunked on the previous page of this thread.

 

[Jayson1]

But if the show is going off the air doesn't that mean he is going to fired no matter what? I mean with no show, you got no role. Heck does he even want to keep doing the show even if did come back. I have gotten the impression is is ready go do movies and other stuff at this point.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

But if the show is going off the air doesn't that mean he is going to fired no matter what? I mean with no show, you got no role. Heck does he even want to keep doing the show even if did come back. I have gotten the impression is is ready go do movies and other stuff at this point.

That's not how that works.

 

[jaime]

Clarkson and Lineker approach. The old ‘don’t renew the contract’. Which I think is also how they got shot of Colin to an extent.

In this case, I have much more faith that he left rather than was shoved out the door. Would he have been? Maybe. It’s not the success story it was these days. Even it was, I don’t think it’s serving him much, nor he it. A… parting of the ways, as it were.

 

[Jayson1]

That's not how that works.

But with no show then their is no job. I am not sure what I am missing.

 

[jaime]

But with no show then their is no job. I am not sure what I am missing.

If he left before show is cancelled, then he can’t really be said to have been fired. If show is not cancelled, and he left of his own choosing, then not fired. If (as is traditional for the Beeb when there’s trouble afoot, one way or another) his contract was up anyway, and simply not renewed, then not fired. (See: Jeremy Clarkson and possibly Gary Lineker)

 

[Rich Watson]

But with no show then their is no job. I am not sure what I am missing.

That doesn't mean you've been fired, which is the accusation.

What's really hilarious about it is that 10 seconds of Googling would have shown them that (if he is leaving) he shot his regeneration back in February when they did a week of extra shooting nine months after S2/15 wrapped.

 

[Rich Watson]

Well... that's 7/7 for the person responsible for the Big Leak.

So maybe we should be starting to pay attention to his insistence that Billie is the new Doctor.

 

[jaime]

Well... that's 7/7 for the person responsible for the Big Leak.

So maybe we should be starting to pay attention to his insistence that Billie is the new Doctor.

Did he name Billie, or just hint obliquely at ‘a familiar woman, at the bafta’s’?

 

[Rich Watson]

He's moved on to saying specifically that it's her.

 

[Rich Watson]

Who's in the box? I thought that they were being clever and ZR would be an original series serial code (maybe 'Terror of The Autons') but nope.

 

[The Wormhole]

But with no show then their is no job. I am not sure what I am missing.

I could explain it to you, but you have a habit of dismissing explanations that don't line up with your worldview, so I'll save myself the carpal tunnel.

 

[Jayson1]

It just feels like a bunch of semantics to me. Seems kind of simple. No show means no role. I suppose it means something more in regards to any contracts signed or anything like that but I guess the main point of it all is that the show failed to improve it's ratings and now it's not going to get renewed. A pretty ordinary story for most tv shows. Doctor Who because of it's legacy just makes it feel different.

 

[jaime]

Who's in the box? I thought that they were being clever and ZR would be an original series serial code (maybe 'Terror of The Autons') but nope.

First thought: Zero Room 01.

 

[Mr Awe]

It just feels like a bunch of semantics to me. Seems kind of simple. No show means no role. I suppose it means something more in regards to any contracts signed or anything like that but I guess the main point of it all is that the show failed to improve it's ratings and now it's not going to get renewed. A pretty ordinary story for most tv shows. Doctor Who because of it's legacy just makes it feel different.

But no role doesn't equate to fired. Fired has a specific meaning. You can lose a job without being fired. It's not semantics at all because there are different reasons behind each.

 

[Mr Awe]

First thought: Zero Room 01.

If you're right, it's a good thing Nyssa, Tegan, and Adric didn't have to lug that one around. Even a wheelchair won't help with that!

 

[Daedalus]

Who's in the box? I thought that they were being clever and ZR would be an original series serial code (maybe 'Terror of The Autons') but nope.

That's a big box for a golden tooth!