Doctor WhoThe season of Disney+ is very much upon us; it started with three 60th anniversary specials featuring David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor (who looked nothing like the Tenth Doctor) and continued with Ncuti Gatwa who just completed the first season as the Fifteenth Doctor. Another season of Gatwa is confirmed to be on the way—but what will happen next, given all that talk of high budgets and low ratings? So far, it is unclear… but there is a glimmer of hope to dwell on today.
Liam Keelan, Disney’s senior vice president of original programming for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, made some exciting comments about Doctor Who while speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Deadline reports.
Although the trade notes Keelan has not “committed to renewing the BBC co-production deal beyond next year’s season, directed by producer Russell T Davies,” he. he did say this: “[Doctor Who] excellent series. Obviously, in the UK it’s the BBC in full, of course. We take other rights of the land. But I’m really, really happy to have it. I just think, the weirdness of it, the fact that it’s in that sci-fi world and when you think about what Disney has to offer in terms of that, I think it feels like a good fit for me. I mean it’s nice to have.”
It is clear that Keelan is not alone Doctor Who fan at Disney these days, or; at San Diego Comic-Con last month, it was revealed that the new Doctor Who repentance, Battle Between Land and Seacurrently working as another BBC-Disney co-production.
In io9’s SDCC report, we noted that the five-episode series “will follow an international disaster on Earth, where the Sea Devils—a classic underwater race that debuted in the 1972 classic ‘The Sea Devils,’ and recently returned in 2022 . ‘The Legend of the Sea’—rises from the ocean and reveals itself to humanity around the world. Without the Doctor to help, UNIT steps in as humanity’s first and last line of defense… as war rears its head, threatening to plunge the world into chaos.”
Written by Davies and Pete McTighe, Battle Between Land and Sea it will be a regular star Doctor Who opposite Jemma Redgrave as UNIT’s Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Alexander Devrient as Colonel Ibrahim, as well as Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as yet-to-be-revealed characters. It’s currently filming, which means it won’t be coming stateside to Disney+ for a while; Doctor Whohowever, it will return with more Fifteenth Doctor adventures later this year, starting with the Christmas special “Joy to the World.”
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