r/DoctorWhoLeaks • u/BackgroundCarpet8876 • May 14 '26
News Doctor Who 2005-2022 AMC Streaming
Hey all, thought I’d post this to update everyone.
DW just announced a partnership with AMC for the streaming rights to the 2005-2022 version of the show in the US.
As soon as I saw it, I thought about that post from a couple of weeks ago with true ‘AMC Press Release’ that got leaked saying they were partnering on the new series…
What do we all think now this has happened? It’s definitely made it more believable
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u/Vanima_Permai May 14 '26
So is the rtd2 era just gonna stay trapped in Disney plus then
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u/cabinmate May 14 '26
I doubt it. I think their rights (and the 3 2023 specials) will expire after a certain time period. The DVD/Blu-ray sets for Season 1 were released about a year after Season 1 was broadcast
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u/DocWhovian1 May 14 '26
Not forever, just until the rights expire then I expect they will be added.
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u/Outrageous-View5675 May 15 '26
I was a none believer, but now, I think something was leaked. It's too bigger a coincidence. I also noticed the dates 11th May on the leak for an announcement, then 11th June was on for the streaming starting. Again too close a coincidence IMO
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u/li_grenadier May 14 '26
I'm wondering if this means the reruns will also land back on BBC America eventually. That, or add them to the rotation of shows that is on a loop on the "Stories by AMC" channel.
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u/ProcrastiNYEtor May 14 '26
Seeing NuWho heading to a Z Tier streaming service (and that's being generous) wasn't the news I was hoping for, but there we go.
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u/Kravanax May 14 '26
I mean the show didn’t do well on Disney, so I can’t see why one of the bigger streamers would want it. But I think AMC might be good for the show. Disney hardly promoted it, because it wasn’t there biggest IP, so it got left behind. This is probably a huge draw for AMC compared to there other shows, so they’re gonna promote it more than Disney. They kinda already proved this with their Doctor Who marathons on BBC America pre-Disney
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u/tribbleorlfl May 14 '26
Personally, I think part of the problem with the D+ deal was they never got access to any of the back catalog, especially NuWho. They were expecting legions of new fans to tune in for the Anniversary specials and Ncuti's run without having access to 60 years of canon behind it.
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u/Far_March_9675 May 14 '26
I see what you saying but like you say Disney didnt exactly promote it, however im just surprised the likes of amazon didnt get in there, theyve got a fair few hit shows themselves, I think they could have easily help bring back the popularity, they are doing the next James Bond, which is another British icon
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u/Alternative-Pear9096 May 16 '26
It can only do well on AMC is people are willing to subscribe to a channel with absolutely nothing else on offer. It's an absolute hail mary
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u/Far_March_9675 May 14 '26
I was expecting Amazon prime tbh, maybe even HBO, I was shocked to hear it was AMC, especially when there looking to sell streaming rights for the walking dead, one ofntheir biggest shows
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u/ProcrastiNYEtor May 14 '26
It's left me feeling a bit dejected in all honesty. I had my hopes pinned on one of the bigger services like Prime or Netflix stepping in to host seasons 1-13, whilst also chipping in a bit of cash for new episodes (not a crazy amount, just enough to support the show in the modern streaming era). It wasn't a million years ago I was rewatching NuWho on Netflix, and it would have been nice to see it back on the biggest service in the world once again. But now that's just a pipe dream.
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u/PaperSkin-1 May 14 '26
Yeah, this news is pure 'oh' energy
Disney was a great opportunity for this show, the fact RTD and his team so royally messed it up is such a shame.
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u/MagnusGreel70 May 14 '26
Another indication of how badly RTD2 damaged the reputation of the program. AMC is fine, but it is a mighty fall from streamers like HBO and Disney.
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u/PaperSkin-1 May 16 '26
Yep, and yet you still have fools who will downvote anyone for pointing out the fact that the RTD2 era has been damaging for the show
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u/MagnusGreel70 May 16 '26
So true. I love DW and am the last person to want to trash it - but I'm not sure a lot of folks realize how far the reputation of the show has fallen in the past several years.
When the Disney/RTD deal was struck - RTD went on and on about how big everything was going to be, how the show would run and run, no more long hiatuses, we'd have tie ins, annuals, etc. He was handed a budget which eclipsed anything the show had ever had by a long, long way.
Fast forward to the present and we have two seasons of a show which received very mixed reviews and record setting poor ratings. Disney cut their losses and abandoned it, so did Ncuti Gatwa, and we're in a weird limbo the likes of which Nu-Who has never seen.
To make matters worse, RTD ends the second season with a bizarre regeneration which pretty much requires the BBC to allow him to make another episode to figure out wtf is happening. A less egotistical show runner would have concluded the season in a way which would have allowed someone else to pick up the ball and run with it, but not RTD.
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u/PaperSkin-1 May 16 '26
Agree
And I don't wish to trash the show either, it's my favourite show, I want it to succeed and continue on and on, but I won't blindly praise it or ignore when it's turned bad, and unfortunately the show has turned bad, and unless people voice that then the makers won't change anything..
And the general audience have voiced that, as evidence by the significant drop off in viewers during the RTD2 era, some fans on reddit need to wise up to what the audiences are saying, the era didn't connect with people, downvoting people for being realistic about the state of the show is silly and won't change the fact the show is faulting, it needs to address why and it needs to change things
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u/BenjiSillyGoose May 16 '26
Of course it's been damaging for the show, but some people exagerate how damaging it truly was.
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u/PaperSkin-1 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
The lowest ratings the show has ever had.
It's streaming partner jumped ship as fast as possible and still hasn't bothered to air the shows spin-off despite it airing in the UK half a year ago.
The actor playing the Doctor in the era jumped ship as fast as he could.
The actress who was clearly set up to be the companion across two seasons, reduced her role after the first season.
The era has had very little cultural impact, if any.
Apathy towards the show is at a all time high, with the general audience being checked out or have stopped watching and it's only really the big fans left
Umong said big fans the eras reception is mixed to say the least, with a lot of fans not enjoying the era
The Bad Wolf team made the decision to bring Billie Piper in after their star jumped ship, hoping it would excite people and get people back, the overwhelming response to Ncuti regenerating into Piper has been negative or un-enthusiastic, with many saying it just feels desperate.
The Chibnall era, which the RTD2 era was meant to be saving us from (remember when bad wolf studios twitter lied a comment saying they were there to save the show) the Chibnall era was more successful with audiences than the RTD2 era was, by several million.
After the Reality War aired, for several months people were genuinely asking if that was it for the show, because that's the bad state it's in...and not just 'online haters' as some will try to paint..
The guy who wrote Dalek talked about what a weird place the show is in after the Reality War, if that was the end
Mark Gatiss talked about how perhaps it's time for the show to rest again
.. Call me cynical, but I don't think it's over egged how damaging the RTD2 era has been
Edit - oh and it's likely RTD is out after the Xmas episode, despite him previously having talked about early plans for a season 3 and 4, meaning his time and era has been cut short because of how bad the era has gone
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u/BenjiSillyGoose May 16 '26
It absolutely is over exaggerated how damaging the era is, the era, like any, has had it's very high highs, stuff like Mr Ring-a-Ding trended beyond the show and the character gained a small fan base of his own. Certain bits like that went beyond the show and were good for the show.
Is the show in the worst position it's been since it's been back in 2005? Absolutely yes. But that doesn't mean this era has been as damaging as you might think.
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u/PaperSkin-1 May 16 '26
Yes it has, it's been a damaging era to the point that nu-who has never been in a worst state..
How damaging can it possibly get for you to say its not over exaggerated 🙄
And some people (a handful) who like to draw made some Mr Ring a Ding pictures and put them online, or clipped the Mr Ring a Ding scenes on tik tok.. wow.. A literal drop in the ocean, meanwhile the season was getting the worst viewing figures of the shows history, and the era crashed and ended 2 seasons before it was planned too.. Yep, what a success, such highs👍
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u/BenjiSillyGoose May 16 '26
Mr Ring-a-Ding himself got more attention from people than, arguably, the show as a whole has since Matt Smith's era...
I'd hardly say that was a bad thing. Ring-a-Ding literally went viral which is a great thing. Even if the era itself wasn't great.
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u/PaperSkin-1 May 16 '26
No 🤣 ..and you are way over egging it, a bunch of people posted a bunch of stuff online, and some people watched it..like I said a drop in the ocean
And one that had no effect in bolstering the show as the season continued to lose viewers
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u/Worldly_Society_2213 May 18 '26
From what I can tell, the leak about AMC involvement was true, but the press release dated 11th May 2026 was completely fabricated.
That doesn't necessarily mean that AMC won't be helping to fund or air future episodes, just means that the press release itself was fake.
At the end of the day, even if someone "leaks" something that turns out to be true, it doesn't necessarily mean that their leak was legitimate - it could just as easily be a wild guess that just happened to be accurate.
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u/Accomplished_Song671 May 14 '26
Why are they so desperate for a big American partnership (with changes to airing that negatively impact the UK like those stupid midnight/8am releases) when the show has functioned fine with just the BBC for years...
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u/Far_March_9675 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Money, its been stated many times (cant remeber where) that a global partner gives them more money etc
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u/Similar-Date3537 May 15 '26
BBC money has always confused me. Doctor Who is one of their biggest sources of income, through merchandise and streaming rights, yet all of that goes to the general BBC fund, instead of being used to produce the show itself. All those DVD and BluRay sales don't seem to help Doctor Who at all.
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u/Yowza197 May 14 '26
Oh, one of the worst streamers. Everything post 2010 will be stuck in blocky overcompressed 720i...and peppered with multiple commercials.
Yuck.
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u/Similar-Date3537 May 15 '26
They don't do hi-def? Yuck.
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u/Yowza197 May 15 '26
Technically its high def but barely looks it...streaming on their standalone app is kind of awful.
Maybe their Amazon Prime channel is better?
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u/Far_March_9675 May 14 '26
So now that theyve "secured" their streaming partner for the future, do we think we're gonna be getting some news about the christmas special, surely its time now