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    From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 18 03:14:44 2025
    EXTERMINATE? Doctor Who facing axe as lead star Ncuti Gatwa 'quits' amid
    woeful rating and fans' fury at woke storylines
    Ncuti's exit as the Time Lord would be the earliest exit of a Doctor,
    bar one exception
    by Rod McPhee, TV Editor
    The Sun
    Published: 22:00, 17 Feb 2025
    Updated: 0:23, 18 Feb 2025

    DOCTOR Who is facing the axe, with star Ncuti Gatwa poised to quit and
    crew claiming to be laid off.

    The recent series suffered abysmal ratings with fans outraged by the BBC shoehorning wokery into storylines.

    Note: Disney Plus was contractually obligated for the three David
    Tennant 14th Doctor specials and two seasons, 13-episodes each, starring
    Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor.

    If there were a third Disney Plus season, Gatwa would have to negotiate
    a new contract.

    No decision will be made till the second Disney Plus series airs.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/33425340/doctor-who-axe-ncuti-gatwa-quits-bbc/

    I've never seen any of this.

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Mon Feb 17 21:07:45 2025
    Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    EXTERMINATE? Doctor Who facing axe as lead star Ncuti Gatwa 'quits' amid woeful rating and fans' fury at woke storylines
    Ncuti's exit as the Time Lord would be the earliest exit of a Doctor,
    bar one exception
    by Rod McPhee, TV Editor
    The Sun
    Published: 22:00, 17 Feb 2025
    Updated: 0:23, 18 Feb 2025

    DOCTOR Who is facing the axe, with star Ncuti Gatwa poised to quit and
    crew claiming to be laid off.

    The recent series suffered abysmal ratings with fans outraged by the BBC shoehorning wokery into storylines.

    Note: Disney Plus was contractually obligated for the three David
    Tennant 14th Doctor specials and two seasons, 13-episodes each, starring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor.

    If there were a third Disney Plus season, Gatwa would have to negotiate
    a new contract.

    No decision will be made till the second Disney Plus series airs.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/33425340/doctor-who-axe-ncuti-gatwa-quits-bbc/

    I've never seen any of this.


    It’s not very good, but a lot of it is better than a lot of recent Doctor Who. Like Jody Whitaker and lot of Crapaldi.

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  • From shawn@21:1/5 to ahk@chinet.com on Tue Feb 18 00:50:53 2025
    On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:14:44 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    EXTERMINATE? Doctor Who facing axe as lead star Ncuti Gatwa 'quits' amid >woeful rating and fans' fury at woke storylines
    Ncuti's exit as the Time Lord would be the earliest exit of a Doctor,
    bar one exception

    His leaving wouldn't help as long as the writing stays the same. If he
    were given better writing he would likely be okay as the Doctor. Hell,
    they had a decent cast with Tenant in the intro for Gatwa but they
    blew it all to hell with the "male facing" line that angered many
    people. It was so out of character with the rest of the episode that
    it had clearly been forced into the script by someone. It reminds me
    of that stupid line I've been seeing from the EMILIA PEREZ movie about
    "penis to vagina". It's the sort of thing that was so stupid no one
    should have let it make it to the screen.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 18 19:43:15 2025
    On 2025-02-18 04:07:45 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
    Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
    EXTERMINATE? Doctor Who facing axe as lead star Ncuti Gatwa 'quits' amid
    woeful rating and fans' fury at woke storylines
    Ncuti's exit as the Time Lord would be the earliest exit of a Doctor,
    bar one exception
    by Rod McPhee, TV Editor
    The Sun
    Published: 22:00, 17 Feb 2025
    Updated: 0:23, 18 Feb 2025

    DOCTOR Who is facing the axe, with star Ncuti Gatwa poised to quit and
    crew claiming to be laid off.

    The recent series suffered abysmal ratings with fans outraged by the BBC
    shoehorning wokery into storylines.

    Note: Disney Plus was contractually obligated for the three David
    Tennant 14th Doctor specials and two seasons, 13-episodes each, starring
    Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor.

    If there were a third Disney Plus season, Gatwa would have to negotiate
    a new contract.

    No decision will be made till the second Disney Plus series airs.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/33425340/doctor-who-axe-ncuti-gatwa-quits-bbc/ >>
    I've never seen any of this.

    It'€™s not very good, but a lot of it is better than a lot of recent Doctor Who. Like Jody Whitaker and lot of Crapaldi.

    The BBC has already said they are still planning to film "season 3"
    after "season 2" airs. Whether ot not Nugly Gatwaste-of-space is still
    around or not is a different question, but the reality is fewer and
    fewer actually care. Doctor Who has been ruined by successive seasons
    with ridiculous "Political Correctness" garbage being forced into to to
    appease BBC checklists and the PC imbeciles, and many other shows
    (especailly BBC ones) are following the same silly path. :-(

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