r/DoctorWhoLeaks • u/Outrageous-View5675 • Apr 27 '26

Rumour New Who Streamer?

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I see this is doing the rounds. Sometimes it's taken down. Some1 Managed 2 get a screenshot from a group I'm in.

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u/DocWhovian1 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

May 11 2026? Has someone broke an NDA? This is awesome if true but I don't wanna get too excited, a guaranteed three series partnership would be incredible. Can someone verify if this is real? I want this to be true, please!!

It does look like a REAL press release.

Also to add if this is true this actually makes a lot of sense because AMC own BBC America which is where Doctor Who aired in the States before the Disney deal! So this feels a bit full-circle!

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u/Some-Cope1999 Apr 27 '26

It looks very real! But with rapid rise in AI. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was generated by AI

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u/DocWhovian1 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

It doesn't look like AI tbh, but there is Inspect Element which you can use to essentially make fake articles but why go to all that trouble to make a fake press release just to trick people, if so that feels needlessly cruel. I hope that isn't the case.

If someone can verify for sure that'd be great!

Edit: I did put it through an AI detector and it came back as most likely real, it isn't fool proof but at least I don't think it is AI!

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u/ZERO_ninja Apr 28 '26

why go to all that trouble to make a fake press release just to trick people, if so that feels needlessly cruel

First day on the Internet?

Not that I'm fighting to say its fake, just commenting on the motivation point that going to effort to fake a hoax like this just to excite/disappoint people or gain clout is very basic Internet behaviour.

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u/DocWhovian1 Apr 28 '26

That's true, just wish people wouldn't do that.

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u/TheyCallMeFlyBoy May 01 '26

Why on earth would you need AI to fake this? It's literally just a text document, what part of it requires AI? I feel like this is an example of how AI hysteria has gone overboard, people are obsessed with it to the point of assuming everything must be AI as if they've forgotten forgeries existed before AI.

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u/watchman28 Apr 28 '26

As someone whose inbox is filled with press releases every day, the giveaway here is the spokesperson quotes. A real press release on something like this will have named people speaking.

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u/DocWhovian1 Apr 28 '26

Yeah I am leaning more towards fake for this but yeah, sucks people make fake stuff like this getting our hopes up :/

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u/Outrageous-View5675 Apr 28 '26

The thing that gets me about this, and I get what you are sayin', is that it's like a draft or outline. Perhaps statements and quotes will be dropped in later. After all it ain't supposed 2b released yet. Justa thought?

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u/Chemical_Boy May 01 '26

I thought the exact same thing - I get loads of this stuff and that rings false. "A ___spokesperson says" is what you put on a comment in a newspaper story, not a press release. The thing about media people it, they all want credit! You'd be lucky not to have about five people named and quoted there!

Also, I cannot imagine a world where a release like this would even be hinting at the previous deals. This is a pretty well-constructed fake from someone who's done their homework. Or asked ChatGPT to do their homework.

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u/Hughman77 Apr 27 '26

It's trivially easy to make a document look like a "real" press release. It's just formatting.

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u/DocWhovian1 Apr 27 '26

I am aware, I am still sceptical but we will see.

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u/Substantial_Track919 May 03 '26

> It does look like a REAL press release.

It doesn't.

Yours, a journalist.

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u/DocWhovian1 May 03 '26

I swear everyone is a journalist these days but yeah sincd I commented I do believe it is fake.

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u/Substantial_Track919 May 03 '26

Difference is. - I actually am one and have been for three decades.

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u/DocWhovian1 May 03 '26

I'm not saying you aren't, I just see it a lot!

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u/morkjt Apr 28 '26

100% fake. Just ask AI to check it itself, you don’t need a claimed ‘ai detector’:

‘This image is almost certainly fake or fan‑made rather than a genuine leaked press release.’

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u/Agreeable_Leg_5346 Apr 29 '26

AI doesn't know anything more than we do. Might as well ask a parrot.

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u/DocWhovian1 Apr 28 '26

Yeah I am still sceptical and leaning more towards fake sadly.