#my username has been wtfbbc since forever

[doctornolonger]

It seems that Britbox is losing Doctor Who outside the UK. With it now nearly certain that Disney+ will be snatching up the Who back catalog – not just future releases, as has been officially confirmed – it’s time to start thinking about how they’ll be splitting up NuWho into separate tiles! After all, surely Disney doesn’t want viewers to think they have to watch all of it before starting the Tennant specials and Gatwa series.

Ways they might do this, ranked from least to most cursed:

They restart the numbering so Gatwa’s first series is 1. “NuNuWho”?

One tile per Doctor, so series 5 is rebranded as “The Eleventh Doctor: Series 1”. This would extend nicely to Classic Who as well, but it’s a bit misleading, since starting with the Tenth or Twelfth Doctors wouldn’t make any sense.

One tile per showrunner era: RTD 1.0, Moffat, Chibnall, and RTD 2.0. Given that handovers have coincided with soft reboots in the past, this would make perfect sense; my main worry would be what names they’d come up with for each era…

One tile per showrunner, so RTD 1.0 and 2.0 go on a single tile. Viewers are encouraged to go straight from The End of Time to the 2023 specials. (If this happens, expect the first Fourteenth Doctor special to begin with a Twice Upon a Time-style long-range “Previously on…” flashback to series 4 (this might happen anyway tbh).)

One tile for series 1–4 and 14+ called “Doctor Who”, and one tile for series 5–13 called “Doctor Who: Legends”.

BIG FINISH ON DISNEY+ B  I  G  F  I  N  I  S  H  O N  D  I  S  N  E  Y +

Have I missed any? Which is most likely?

#rtd 2.0 #disney+ #as an aside #i do not trust the gally one pr blitz #i have no doubt that the bbc didn't help things #my username has been wtfbbc since forever #because they rarely do anything right #but does that mean they're solely responsible for every shortcoming? #of course the writers are lovely and charming people #anyone who's wished them ill is delusional #but a lot of fans seem too hasty to believe there's no other side to the story #which just isn't justified #we still don't know the full story on the moffat years #important bts info from rtd 1.0 is still just coming out #we won't know the full story on Chaos in Cardiff until the 2030s #at least #and it'll come from people whose current top priority isn't to salvage their career(s) #also #gally's policy of banning recordings is inexplicable #outdated at best and classist at worst #shout-out to attendees who posted their notes!