Disney is in Control! Looks like a Young Adult series now.
Reset the season number for no reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoyV65HoRFA
✨ Everything is possible ✨ #DoctorWho premieres on BBC iPlayer in the UK 11th May and Disney+ 10th May where available.
Disney in control means Big-Black-Cock is in. It actually doesn't look that bad. I think he can pull it off. I just hope this isn't a trend else we'll know DEI quota is in effect. If the next one is Hispanic or Asian then it will prove it so.
shareWell, this Nshitty Gaywad season isn't connected to legit Doctor Who so it makes sense to reset. It's just expensive gay fan fiction at this point.
shareIt's also going online at midnight in the UK so it airs at a decent time for the US
shareI'm not keen on that.
Presumably it's been okayed by the BBC's legal department, but I would have thought that even though it is technically being released in the UK and the rest of the world at the same time, this prioritises the Disney+ audience. If that isn't against at least the spirit of the Royal Charter, I don't know what is.
The BBC is not legally permitted to make programmes for other broadcasters. I think a talented lawyer could make a case that prioritising another broadcaster's audience in this way amounted to precisely that.
Yeah I was wondering how it would work with the fact that the British public fund the BBC via the TV license and it seems an odd move to make when people have been trying to get the license removed.
I get why they have done it, as the US is a massive audience, but I believe the UK should always be the first priority. I've also seen US people saying that they have had to suffer with poor release dates and we the British are being very selfish to complain. Yet these people seem to not realise we've had to put up with this for many US shows, sometimes having to wait for months.
It's their show and we put up with it but when they then get the better treatment on our own show, well it just seems wrong.
I'm also not a big fan of having it go online before broadcast. If it has to, I'd prefer a better slot for UK viewers, even something like 9pm or 10pm but I feel by going online before broadcasting, it kind of ruins the community aspect
Yes. I agree.
I think if it were an ITV show, I wouldn't have an issue with it. But it's licence fee funded. It has to be made for licence fee payers first and foremost. That's literally in the rules that govern the BBC's output. And it feels like they've found a smart-arse workaround for that rule. So I think we have every right to grumble and complain.
I'd be perfectly happy for the USA and the rest of the world to get the show at the exact same time as us as long as that exact same time was convenient for a British audience. Which midnight obviously isn't.
Effectively most people in the UK won't see it until the following day now. And that feels wrong. But I guess Disney haven't paid all that money for nothing.
It seems too upbeat and breezy for a Doctor Who show. It feels more like Men in Black.
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