i hate this reductive narrative that Shannen and Holly are stirring up “drama” by finally discussing their truth about what happened regarding Shannen’s firing from Charmed. it’s not drama; they’re opening up about an intense, traumatic experience in their lives. trauma comes in all forms and they shouldn’t just be expected to “get over it” because they happen to be celebrities on a TV show. that set was toxic for all of them, point blank. Alyssa can open up about her experience when she’s ready — and it’s not like Shannen and Holly are openly calling for Alyssa’s head on a spike or anything.
Imagine one selected day struck out of your life and think how different its course would have been. Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
It seems that Britbox is losing Doctor Who outside the UK. With it now nearly certain that Disney+ will be snatching up the Who back catalog – not just future releases, as has been officially confirmed – it’s time to start thinking about how they’ll be splitting up NuWho into separate tiles! After all, surely Disney doesn’t want viewers to think they have to watch all of it before starting the Tennant specials and Gatwa series.
Ways they might do this, ranked from least to most cursed:
They restart the numbering so Gatwa’s first series is 1. “NuNuWho”?
One tile per Doctor, so series 5 is rebranded as “The Eleventh Doctor: Series 1”. This would extend nicely to Classic Who as well, but it’s a bit misleading, since starting with the Tenth or Twelfth Doctors wouldn’t make any sense.
One tile per showrunner era: RTD 1.0, Moffat, Chibnall, and RTD 2.0. Given that handovers have coincided with soft reboots in the past, this would make perfect sense; my main worry would be what names they’d come up with for each era…
One tile per showrunner, so RTD 1.0 and 2.0 go on a single tile. Viewers are encouraged to go straight from The End of Time to the 2023 specials. (If this happens, expect the first Fourteenth Doctor special to begin with a Twice Upon a Time-style long-range “Previously on…” flashback to series 4 (this might happen anyway tbh).)
One tile for series 1–4 and 14+ called “Doctor Who”, and one tile for series 5–13 called “Doctor Who: Legends”.
BIG FINISH ON DISNEY+ B I G F I N I S H O N D I S N E Y +
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