Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | October 28, 2025
It’s as many of us expected: The BBC’s Doctor Who has ended its two-season partnership with Disney+, which brought back showrunner Russell T. Davies and installed the magnificent Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor. It’s unclear where it’s headed next (maybe AMC/BBC America will revisit their partnership?), but it is going to continue.
Davies is already at work on a Christmas special that will air in 2026 (who will the Doctor be? Billie Piper’s Rose?), and the BBC stated that “we will be announcing plans for the next series in due course, which will ensure the TARDIS remains at the heart of the BBC.”
As nice as the bigger budgets might have been, the show clearly wasn’t a good fit for Disney+, which barely promoted its second season. They may have been willing to put more money in the budget, but not so much in getting folks to watch it. The fit felt awkward to begin with.
The fact remains, however, that it will be at least another year before there’s new Doctor Who content, and much longer before another season arrives. That’s OK. The series needs a little more time to let us miss it.
