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BBC teases potential new streaming partner for Doctor Who as show's future affirmed as "treasured brand"

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https://piefed.social/u/Skavau posted on Feb 25, 2026 14:13
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https://piefed.social/u/Elting posted on Feb 25, 2026 15:11
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I know doctor who has always had its good eras and bad eras but goddamn has it has not been good in a long time. Either it has a poor writer at the head or the cast is lacking and they can’t seem to get both those things right at once.

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https://beehaw.org/u/I_am_10_squirrels posted on Feb 25, 2026 19:19
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I’ve been enjoying the current doctor, and now I’m watching Sex Education because of him. I do miss the grittiness of David Tenant though.

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https://lemmy.world/u/MimicJar posted on Feb 25, 2026 19:31
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I enjoyed a lot from the most recent Gatwa era. It has some bad episodes and the finale definitely didn’t work, but I think it had more good than bad.

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https://lemmy.world/u/criss_cross posted on Feb 25, 2026 21:22
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Yeah Gatwa breathed a lot of life into the show for me after Whitaker’s run.

The overarching plot was eh but the individual episodes were a lot of fun. Which is more than I can say about the previous run.

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https://lemmy.world/u/MimicJar posted on Feb 25, 2026 21:32
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Yeah, by the end of Capaldi’s run I was losing interest and I was excited for both a new doctor and show runner, but I couldn’t stick with Whitaker and dropped off halfway into the first series.

I did go back last year and give it a shot. Being able to binge it was better because the weaker episodes just scroll past until you get to something better. I think in the end it was fine, but difficult to recommend.

For Gatwa I was excited to tune in every week. I really wish he had gotten a third series.

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