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Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who Showrunner to celebrate the 60th anniversary in 2023, and series beyond. BBC Studios are partnering with Bad Wolf to produce.
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September 24, 2021
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"Bad Wolf Studios was on the verge of failing" What? How so? They have a bunch of shows going so they seem to be fine from what I can tell.
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Their two shows failed in different ways -- His Dark Materials hemorrhaged viewers from series 1 to 2 and never got great numbers in the US. A Discovery of Witches took forever to come back and, when it did, was completely creatively unsatisfying. From what I understand it did *okay* numbers-wise, but Bad Wolf had put so much of its time and attention into HDM that ADoW suffered in terms of promotion and creative attention.
Both shows were meant to have a five-series run and got cut down to three prior to Covid.
tl;dr -- they don't seem to be very good at building and promoting original content and I think they need Doctor Who to save them as a company with both HDM and ADoW ending.
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Well, you know what I'm here for it
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