“The plans for Physician Who’re actually merely this: the BBC and BBC Studios had a partnership with Disney+ for 26 episodes. We’re presently 21 episodes down into that 26-episode run. We’ve got received one other 5 episodes of The Struggle Between the Land and the Sea to come back. In some unspecified time in the future after that, selections might be made along with all of us about what the way forward for Physician Who entails.”
Rumors have been flying for ages that Disney isn’t planning to resume this partnership, however what everybody appears to be forgetting is that the BBC has mentioned, repeatedly, that the company is firmly dedicated to the present. (“Physician Who’s going nowhere” is a direct quote!). And Tranter’s feedback reiterate that truth.
“It’s a 60-year-old franchise. It’s been going for 20 years nonstop since we introduced it again in 2005 [when I worked at the BBC]. You’ll anticipate it to alter, wouldn’t you? Nothing continues the identical at all times, or it shouldn’t proceed the identical at all times. So it should change in some kind or one other. However the one factor we will all be actually away from is that the Physician might be again and everybody, together with me, together with all of us, simply has to attend patiently to see when — and who.”
The plain truth of the matter is: It’s going to take a while to determine what’s subsequent for the present, and all of us want to simply accept that truth. If selections can’t be made (or at the least introduced) till after The Struggle Between the Land and the Sea airs, then endlessly going across the identical questions is deeply futile. The BBC and Dangerous Wolf appear to have been as direct as they are often that the present’s returning, whereas staying trustworthy about the truth that we don’t know when that may be. And whereas it’s pure to really feel nervous about all of the uncertainty surrounding our favourite Time Lord, we’re most likely simply going to must get used to coping with it for a while to come back.