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Spoilers Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

I very much hate the idea of Doctor Who being inside Amazon or Apple's walled gardens. I hate that series that have been mass-market concepts, like Star Trek, are being put behind walls. Walls limit the reach and make the concepts niche. If Doctor Who or Star Trek need a walled garden to live, maybe they're really already dead.
To be honest, I think the "walled gardens" say more about the current state of the market than about the series within those gardens. Although, if it says anything about the series, it's probably just that they're relatively expensive to make.

But I agree with the sentiment. I'd love for those series to be freely available.
 
To be honest, I think the "walled gardens" say more about the current state of the market than about the series within those gardens. Although, if it says anything about the series, it's probably just that they're relatively expensive to make.

But I agree with the sentiment. I'd love for those series to be freely available.
To me, the best way to go about it would be to do a combination of stuff on regular TV and some on streaming.
 
I can't see any scenario where the show wouldn't still air on the BBC. The absolute worst case I could imagine is that the show aired on a streamer first, then was on terrestrial TV weeks/months later. I think that;s highly unlikely though.
 
Russell T Davies went to an award show ran by one of my oldest friends, where he actually won an award, I never got invited to the show to meet Russell, and my friend knows that I am a massive Doctor Who fan! :wah:

Well, that’s not very fair, is it! lol :shrug:
 
I very much hate the idea of Doctor Who being inside Amazon or Apple's walled gardens. I hate that series that have been mass-market concepts, like Star Trek, are being put behind walls. Walls limit the reach and make the concepts niche. If Doctor Who or Star Trek need a walled garden to live, maybe they're really already dead.

To be honest, I think the "walled gardens" say more about the current state of the market than about the series within those gardens. Although, if it says anything about the series, it's probably just that they're relatively expensive to make.

But I agree with the sentiment. I'd love for those series to be freely available.

It's kind of surprising that Disney doesn't have a Star Wars TV series on ABC. Doesn't have to be as epically expensive as Andor reportedly was, but surely it would draw a lot more viewers. Star Wars is a much bigger mainstream phenomenon than Doctor Who or Star Trek.
 
It's kind of surprising that Disney doesn't have a Star Wars TV series on ABC. Doesn't have to be as epically expensive as Andor reportedly was, but surely it would draw a lot more viewers. Star Wars is a much bigger mainstream phenomenon than Doctor Who or Star Trek.
Maybe they feel burned by Agents of SHIELD being ignored and Inhumans being a top-to-bottom disaster, and have taken it as a lesson that movie tie-ins don't work on linear TV the way they do on streaming.
 
I can't see any scenario where the show wouldn't still air on the BBC. The absolute worst case I could imagine is that the show aired on a streamer first, then was on terrestrial TV weeks/months later. I think that;s highly unlikely though.

in this day and age that simply won't work.

more likely that it would be well and truly pirated by the time it aired on terrestrial tv.

viewers don't like being screwed around like.
 
Agents of SHIELD lasted seven seasons.
Yes, but it also ended up on its own weird little island, where its current status is "Everyone is pretty sure it doesn't count, but no one knows the (Watsonian) reason why." That's not an outcome you want to emulate.

AoS absolutely deserved better, and it did well on its own terms, but I don't think that the money people at Disney are likely consider it a franchise/brand success story as opposed to a cautionary tale.
 
I was going to make a crack about how American networks only want cop or hospital shows, then remembered Lucasfilm does have those nice hospital sets from Andor. So what the hell, Coruscant Med on ABC. If it does well you can also add Coruscant Fire and Coruscant PD.
Don't forget "Coruscant Law Offices"
 
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