Having Succeeded in Destroying a Fourth Beloved IP, Disney Ends Its Financial Backing of Doctor Who (Is Gay)

Doctor Who veered left under Steven Moffat and Peter Capaldi, then went full identity politics with the "first female Doctor" under Chris Chibnal. Turns out, Jodie Whitaker wasn't even the first female Doctor -- they retconned many earlier doctors, including, of course, a never-before-seen First Black Female Doctor.

As a black woman of female, I had never felt more validated.

Having turned Doctor Who into yet another Princess brand, of course Disney couldn't miss out on getting in on the action and ushering the immortal Doctor into the grave.

And it just so happens that for the two seasons Disney funded the show, the Doctor was now black and gay. And not just gay. Super-Gay.

The Doctor's sex life was never part of the show before. Yes, he'd had sex -- he had had children, and grandchildren -- but he was a grandfatherly figure of wisdom who had little interest in sex and considered it a boring distraction from the real marvels of the universe.

This changed in the rebooted series, where the Doctor sometimes flirted with female companions. But this never went beyond a chaste fondness.

Then the first gay Doctor came in, and he was gay all the way. The previous heterosexual Doctors had never been straight-all-the-way. He didn't gawk at women. At most, he'd make an offhand quip about having once been in a relationship with Queen Elizabeth I or something.

But when he went gay, he was full-on in-your-face gay. He even wore a skirt and went disco-dancing.

Point is, Disney swooped in to "save" Doctor Who when its ratings were already among the lowest they had ever been due to its egregious and incessant woke messaging. They "rescued" the show, which the BBC was no longer willing to fund.

And then the show turned even woker. And its ratings went from among the worst in the show's sixty year history to the very worst in the show's sixty-year history.

And now, having accomplished its mission of destroying yet another formerly male-skewing property, Disney says they're done and satisfied with a job well done.

It has been rumored for months and now it has become reality.

Disney+ will be exiting the TARDIS and will no longer be involved with Doctor Who after partnering on two seasons with the BBC plus an upcoming spin-off titled The War Between The Land and the Sea.

The BBC just confirmed that the show will continue and will return with a Christmas special in 2026 penned by showrunner Russell T. Davies. Details of future seasons will be announced in due course along with more information on an animation for pre-school children.

Nope! The plan was always to do a sixtieth anniversary "holiday special" (the show stopped doing Christmas shows a while ago; wouldn't want to give any kind of exposure to the Christian ideology.)

That doesn't mean the show is "continuing." It means only that they're doing the one additional episode they already contracted to doing.

There is no current Doctor to continue the show. The actor playing the ultra-gay black Doctor angered the BBC when he refused to honor a commitment to be some kind of presenter for the BBC's broadcast of the Eurovision song contest. Ncuti Gatwa boycotted the event due to his extreme hatred of Israel (which was featured in the show, and, as usual, getting no votes due to Euorpe's high levels of antisemitism, both domestic and imported).

So he's out.

But that's okay, because anniversary specials usually feature the return of actors who have played the Doctor in the past. So the show will just be whoever is willing to come out of the retirement home to pick up an easy check.

And that will be that.

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"The BBC remains fully committed to Doctor Who, which continues to be one of our most loved dramas, and we are delighted that Russell T Davies has agreed to write us another spectacular Christmas special for 2026," she added. "We can assure fans, the Doctor is not going anywhere, and we will be announcing plans for the next series in due course which will ensure the TARDIS remains at the heart of the BBC."

If that were true, you could just commit to additional seasons of the show now, instead of declaring that at some point in the future you will fund new seasons.

The Groomer BBC and Groomer Disney Corporation teamed up to kill the Doctor, once and for all, and I'm glad he's dead. Or she's dead. Or they's dead.

Related: The message about The Message is getting mainstream chatter.

posted by Ace at 04:50 PM

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