It’s been an odd few years for Doctor Who , from riding on the high of its 60th anniversary heralding a splashy new partnership with Disney to bring the series around the world (and with a much bigger budget ), to this week’s news that said deal had undramatically fizzled out after just two seasons, with the show not making a return until a 2026 Christmas special. But a new report suggests that the BBC’s deal with the House of Mouse may have been doomed to fail from almost the beginning.

An extensive new report from Deadline alleges that the BBC/Disney partnership on Doctor Who was never expected to last long term, claiming that the fit between Disney’s plans for its streaming platform, Disney+, was never an ideal fit to sustain a show as expensive as Doctor Who had bec

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