It definitely hadn’t been an easy time to be a Doctor Who fan . What should have been the show’s most prosperous new beginning—its partnering with streaming giant Disney+ and showrunner’s Russell T Davies’ starry-eyed goal of turning the 60-year-old series into a “WHOniverse” of its own, with spinoffs galore—has ended with a Doctor departure earlier than expected and a single spinoff with no global release date. Conjecture as we may, no one can fully say why the partnership between Disney, BBC Studios, and the BBC proper fizzled unceremoniously .

That hasn’t stopped outlets, most recently Deadline , from attempting to shed light on the subject. In the lengthy piece, the trade has quotes from anonymous insiders at both BBC and Disney+ as well as bloggers who offer speculation. Ul

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