Physician Who‘s Disney+ era continues to be very a lot upon us; it started with the trio of sixtieth anniversary specials starring David Tennant because the Fourteenth Physician (who appeared not not like the Tenth Physician) and continued with Ncuti Gatwa’s recently concluded first season because the Fifteenth Physician. There’s another confirmed Gatwa season on the best way—however what is going to occur subsequent, given all that discuss of high budgets and low ratings? As of proper now, it’s unclear… however there’s a glimmer of hope to dwell on right this moment.
Liam Keelan, Disney’s senior vp of authentic programming in Europe, the Center East, and Africa, made enthusiastic remarks about Physician Who whereas talking on the Edinburgh TV Competition, Deadline stories.
Although the commerce notes Keelan didn’t “decide to renewing the BBC co-production deal past subsequent 12 months’s season, which is overseen by showrunner Russell T Davies,” he did have this to say: “[Doctor Who] is a superb sequence. Clearly, within the UK it’s absolutely BBC, rightly so. We take remainder of world rights. However actually, actually completely happy to have it. I feel simply, the quirkiness of it, the truth that it’s in that sci-fi world and when you consider what Disney presents in different regards, I feel it seems like a extremely good match to me. I imply it’s nice to have it.”
It’s clear Keelan isn’t the one Physician Who fan at Disney as of late, both; ultimately month’s San Diego Comedian-Con, it was revealed {that a} new Physician Who spin-off, The War Between Land and Sea, is presently within the works as one other BBC-Disney co-production.
In io9’s SDCC reporting, we famous that the five-episode sequence will “comply with a global disaster on Earth, when the Sea Devils—the traditional underwater race launched within the 1972 basic ‘The Sea Devils,’ and most just lately returned within the 2022 slightly less classic ‘Legend of the Sea Devils’—emerge from the oceans and reveal themselves to humanity on a world scale. With out the Physician to assist, UNIT steps in as humanity’s first and final line of protection… as warfare rears its head, threatening to plunge the world into chaos.”
Written by Davies and Pete McTighe, The Conflict Between Land and Sea will star acquainted Physician Who faces Jemma Redgrave as UNIT’s Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and and Alexander Devrient as Colonel Ibrahim, in addition to Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked as as-yet unrevealed characters. It’s presently filming, which suggests it gained’t arrive stateside on Disney+ for awhile; Physician Who, nevertheless, shall be again with extra Fifteenth Physician adventures later this 12 months, beginning with Christmas particular “Joy to the World.”
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