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Whatever their leverage, I think fans wildly overestimate Disney’s interest in dictating the content of Doctor Who. It’s an existing brand they bought into at a low price (relative to their typical streaming budget), not something they’re looking to exert creative control over. Davies has shared...

The BBC has already paid for at least some scripts for another series. Scripts are relatively cheap, but they wouldn’t have done that if it weren’t the current plan to film a series next year. The show’s performance for the BBC is good enough that they and Bad Wolf will continue making it in...

Doctor Who showrunners are not obligated to force nostalgia cameos into their work for the benefit of a few thousand fans on the Internet. The extent to which they do it anyway because they want to it is pretty remarkable, and it seems weird to get hung up on a couple that didn’t come together...

I think it’s more likely that there are no 99 cent titles this month other than Somewhere to Belong, and that the new $1.99 titles are the rest of this month’s deals; Firewall, the movie novelizations, and possibly some of the others just dropped in price today. But we’ll see.

A couple recent titles in this month’s US Amazon deals: PIC: Firewall for $1.99 and DIS: Somewhere to Belong for $0.99. The following novelizations are also included, mostly for $1.99 each: TMP TSFS TFF TUC GEN TNG: Descent ($3.99) ST09 STID

The post-production can be time-consuming (they originally hoped to have the 2024 series air earlier in the year, much closer to “The Church on Ruby Road,” but the effects weren’t ready), but I don’t think Tranter’s wording really supports the level of specificity people are reading into it.

There are a couple passing references to a particular ENT storyline that’s pertinent to this book, but that’s about it. I had a lot of fun with this one. The 2024 sections do a nice job of working through how a persistent amateur sleuth might piece together the footprint the crew left in 1986...

That claim comes from a third-party analyst, rather than from Disney, and as such is of debatable value; Disney doesn’t release that kind of hard information about performance even to the people who make their shows. Parrot Analytics appears to draw most of its data from social media engagement...

I wouldn’t entirely rule out an onscreen crossover at some point— Davies has been interested in the idea since his first tenure— but I’d be surprised if it happened any time soon.

I would assume it’s “hasn’t heard any” as in doesn’t listen to them, rather than hasn’t heard OF them. He definitely knows BF exists; he mentions them in this interview https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/interview-chris-chibnall-part-2-doctor-who-and-beyond/, and I gather they’re...

Big Finish have announced the cast for the final part of Once and Future: Jo Martin as the Fugitive Doctor and Jonathan Carley as the War Doctor, plus Lisa Bowerman as Benny and Chase Masterson as Vienna Salvatori. https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-war-doctor-vs-the-fugitive-doctor

The BARB +7 figures, which count people who watched the episode live on BBC1 or on iPlayer during the week following release, are in the 3-4 million range. The “ approaching 6 million” figure for Space Babies is total reach between BBC1, BBC3, and iPlayer in the 40-odd days since release...

The AI numbers we used to get were leaked, not released; unlike viewing figures, they’re not meant to be public information. The person who had been leaking them changed jobs and no longer has access.

Given that we last saw the regular TARDIS with a triumphant Sutekh draped around it, I don’t know that it’s more logical for the Doctor to be there than in the memory TARDIS at the point this frame sequence occurs…

It sounds like it was cut during scriptwriting, so it probably wasn’t ever filmed. That would be a very costly sequence to shoot and then cut entirely.

In addition to The High Country and Diplomatic Implausibility, the following are part of Amazon’s Kindle Monthly Deals for June, which usually means they’re the S&S monthly deal titles: 99 cents: TOS: Legacies 1 and 2 PIC: The Last Best Hope DS9: The Siege DIS: Dead Endless DIS: Wonderlands The...

This is the key point for me. Regardless of whether this instance of “Sisko reacts badly to sudden trauma and retreats from some of his responsibilities” is dramatically consistent with prior ones, it’s not telling us anything new about the character or opening up storytelling opportunities...

Of course, the broader problem with “the TARDIS landed in Totter’s Lane and turned into a police box, and then the chameleon circuit broke” is that a police box doesn’t belong in a junkyard. Ian even points this out in the first episode. (“It's a police box! What on earth's it doing here? These...

Today, a mere five months after everyone stopped thinking about Once and Future, I got my CD copies of parts six and seven in the mail. One of the many weird things about this series is that Big Finish made no effort to provide customers who bought the limited editions with matching numbers...

Stewart used to be sniffier about TV and science fiction (he infamously asked Lalla Ward during production of the BBC TV Hamlet why she was wasn’t doing more proper theatre work instead of things like Doctor Who), so it’s not surprising he wasn’t part of the classic series. Given that RTD...