...look at this.
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2026/the-ministry-of-time-casting-announcement
In order to make a six episode SF series, that will be pretty low on the FX front, the BBC had to cobble together a deal with four other broadcasters.
I mean, he's too old to be the 7th and was out in the real world so not the one from the Memory TARDIS, so it's the only thing that makes sense...
Big Finish, over to you!
Are their enough hardcore fans to generate the big positive headlines the The Odyssey and Avengers got?
... three Batman movies, The Prestige and Inception.
Just saying.
Not really any sort of shock but good to have it confirmed.
https://deadline.com/2026/07/doctor-who-bbc-studios-will-compete-tender-tom-fussell-1236981740/
Spider-Man looks like it will beat Superman's total in its first week and will easily sail well past a billion.
Avengers could be a surprise disaster but it's far more likely to at least inch into a billion.
So if MOT ends up in that same 600-ish range again, where does that leave Gunn?
The only character he has that could do better is the one he's handed over to the guy who made The Flash.
Warners aren't paying him huge sums of money to make films that make a small profit for them.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Supergirl-(2026)
Also reports that most of its screens in Brazil will be removed after Wednesday and replaced with Minions.
Let's look at the details:
Superman: Just barely makes a profit.
Supergirl: Total disaster
Next up:
Clayface: Not a Batman film but a film about an obscure Batman villain
Superman 2: Should do OK but with the novelty factor gone and international interest unchanged not likely to improve.
And the only confirmed film after that is once again not a Batman movie but a puppet movie about Robins.
And on the TV side, which is supposed to help bolster interest in the moves, we have a Green Lantern show made by people to embarrassed to call it Green Lantern and a Jimmy Olsen/Gorilla Grood show.
Starts about 26 minutes in. Mr Osgood explains everything very well. Should be mandatory viewing before anyone comments on the subject.
One key fact that gets revealed it was always going out to tender after the Christmas Special anyway and the feeling was any incoming Producer would want a clean slate so it was better to cut it off there rather than dragging out.
The BBC would rather take the PR damage from cancelling the Christmas Special than allow Davies one more episode to wrap things up.
We all thought they were actually happy with what he's doing but turns out they felt the same as the rest of us.
The press release is the most telling of all. When Chibnall's departure was announced it was full of praise for him, this one... nothing.
My one wish now is that when the tender for making the new series goes out no one who has been involved in the series in the last 10 years is allowed to bid. That goes double for McTighe.
https://deadline.com/2026/06/box-office-global-scary-movie-masters-of-the-universe-1236949181/
Anyone who knows anything about the property could have seen that coming, but how the hell did they expect the movie to be a success when it had no appeal to kids?
https://cultbox.co.uk/news/russell-t-davies-i-wont-be-back-filming-anything-until-next-year
Not a mention of Doctor Who. But everything is fine, right. Right?
So, the BBC wouldn't give the Radio Times a reply when they asked them to confirm the Christmas Special is still happening.
In the past they've had no problem shooting down fake rumours when the tabloids printed them.
F**k.
Davies is giving a talk on his career and future plans next Friday. I'm not expecting much but at this point even just confirming the shooting dates would be something.
And if he did want to throw in that this will be his last episode, well, it is my birthday next week as well.
https://www.shermantheatre.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-russell-t-davies/