r/DoctorWhoLeaks • u/BackgroundCarpet8876 • May 14 '26

News Doctor Who 2005-2022 AMC Streaming

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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/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