Doctor Who “Faces Axe while Lead Actor is on Verge of Quitting Amid Drop in Ratings and Fan Fury at Woke Storylines”
Doctor Who is reportedly facing the axe, while lead actor Ncuti Gatwa is said to be on the verge of quitting amid a huge drop in ratings and growing fan fury at woke storylines. The Mail has the story.
The long-running sci-fi show has suffered a huge drop in ratings of late, with fans said to be fed up of the injection of woke storylines.
The Scottish actor, 32, joined the show in 2023 after Jodie Whittaker bowed out as the Time Lord, but it’s rumoured that he’s set to walk away from the BBC show after just two seasons.
According to reports, a decision on the show’s future will only be decided by bosses once Ncuti’s second series hits screens later this year.
It is thought that Ncuti has already filmed his regeneration exit scene, with crews allegedly fearing that this could spell the end of the series after a whopping 62 years.
A source told the Sun: “Ncuti doesn’t want to be tied to the series beyond this and plans to relocate to Los Angeles with several Hollywood projects standing by for him.
“His team also see a lot of fan backlash from the series, and don’t want the perception of him still being the Doctor to get in the way of any future work.
“The show has been poorly managed in recent years and there’s a lot of people who’ve been working on this show for years and now being cast aside due to poor leadership.”
The insider added that people had warned that the episodes were becoming “too caught up on an agenda” rather than focusing on “telling a story”, with those people apparently being “shouted down” and “ignored”.
MailOnline has contacted representatives of BBC and Ncuti for comment.
According to the Sun, Ncuti’s first series attracted between “2.25 million and 3.18 million viewers, much less than previous series”.
However, a Doctor Who spokesperson added to the Sun: “This story is incorrect. Doctor Who has not been shelved. As we have previously stated, the decision on season three will be made after season two airs. The deal with Disney+ was for 26 episodes — and exactly half of those still have to transmit.”
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The Mail takes a look at some of the programme’s wokest moments:
Fuming ‘Whovians’ were left outraged at the introduction of transgender and non-binary characters who would lash out at people “assuming their gender”, as well as a deranged new villain played by a drag queen. …
The slump comes after Russell T. Davies returned as showrunner and introduced a string of controversial plots – which included David Tennant’s Doctor realising he was gay after developing a crush on the “hot” Sir Isaac Newton.
Tennant, who stepped back into the Tardis to be the 14th doctor for three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, made the hint about his sexuality in a comment to Catherine Tate, who returned as his assistant Donna Noble.
In the exchange about Newton – who appears to be of Indian heritage [!!!] in the show and is played by Nathaniel Curtis – Donna said: “Is it just me or was Isaac Newton hot?”
And the Doctor replied: “He was, wasn’t he? He was so hot. Oh! Is that who I am now?”
Donna added: “Well, it was never too far from the surface, mate. I always thought you…”
In the anniversary special, fans were also introduced to Donna Noble’s transgender daughter, Rose, played by trans actor Yasmin Finney.
The 21-year-old, most recognised for his role as Elle Argent in Heartstopper, scolded Tennant’s Doctor for “assuming the gender” of an alien.
Tennant was called out by Finney’s character for describing a fluffy rat-like creature called Beep The Meep as “him”.
Rose lambasted the Doctor’s assumption that the alien was a ‘he’, asking him: “You’re assuming he as a pronoun?”
In an exchange dubbed “cringe-worthy” by some viewers, the Doctor then apologised and asked Meep if it was a “he or she or they”, to which the creature replied: “My chosen pronoun is the definite article. I am always The Meep.” …
Fans also lamented at the introduction of the screeching, wide-mouthed, ginger-haired non-binary villain, Maestro – played by American drag queen Jinkx Monsoon.
The camp icon, who is seen slithering out of a piano while gurning and laughing maniacally, went viral for correcting another character for using ‘him’ pronouns incorrectly.
In the show, Maestro encounters a man who warns other characters to “get away from him” – to which the villain replies: “Them.”
“What?” the bemused man then asks. “I’m ‘them’, but my notation is ‘Maestro’,” Monsoon’s character then replies, before going on to use musical chords as a weapon. …
And back in 2018, when Jodie Whittaker was the titular Time Lord, fans were introduced to a heavily pregnant man as one of the side characters.
The ‘man’ called Yoss is an alien from a species known as the Gifftans. He reveals that unlike humans, both male and female Gifftans can give birth – with men giving birth to boys and women giving birth to girls.
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That’s right baby you can put a black trasgender disabled lesbian in the Tardis but they aint listening anymore. Better late than ever that whitey and his fans say something. There have been decades of this crap in popular culture. It can take a strong emetic to get the masses to spew it out.
You do realise if they’d cast Reginald D. Hunter the show ratings would have gone through the roof
Yes but he only had 1 of those 4 qualifications and is funny.
Great handle, I bet not many recognise it. I’ll change mine to Simon Templar. 😁
So that’s definitely true about humans then or it could not be on Doctor Who.
A couple of points:
We’re sick of woke propaganda and we’re sick of native white Brits being cast aside in favour of diversity picks like Ncuti Gatwa
It has the opposite effect to the one supposedly intended – I start to be irritated by non-whites, women, simpering bearded beta males, homosexuals etc – all over-represented because someone is trying to make a point. I don’t have anything against any of those groups on principle. I have to remind myself to despise the wasters that make the decisions, not the actors who are just doing a job.
That’s supposedly exactly the intended effect. There ain’t no fun in being member of an oppressed group if there’s simply no oppression. But as all good people know the oppressors are everywhere out there, it’s time to force them into the open by relentless provocation.
Yup I think you’re on the money there as usual
Agreed. It’s like they’re trying too hard and it’s not remotely subtle. And they should never ever have made a female Doctor Who, a ‘Time Lady’😱 Sacrilege. Well you know what I’m like so that’s saying something.🤭
I tried to sit through that first one after its very long hiatus, with Christopher Ecclestone and Billie Piper, where she was in a shop and all the mannequins came to life, and I couldn’t finish it. Thought it was tripe. So I’ll always remember this British classic TV show when it was in its prime, then it remains unspoilt.
And he is not Scottish. He was born in Scotland but he can never be a white ethnicity.
It’s BBC innit?
If anyone hasn’t burned their licence yet, what are you waiting for?
Well nothing screamed “toxic masculinity” like the Daleks and their evil leader, Davros ( who does bear a resemblance to Freddy Kruger, in my opinion ), so it’d be quite fun to see how these intergalactic baddies could be ‘wokified’ to bring them up to date and basically ruin them.😁 I’m thinking rainbows, plenty of pink, girlier voices, but instead of “exterminate” they could say something else…🤔 “Indoctrinate”? Not sure, other suggestions are welcome. We need an updated version of Dalek model that won’t be defeated by a step either. They’ll still resemble omelettes on the inside, though. I remember that movie with Peter Cushing. I liked K9 best of all though.
“Indoctrinate” lol.
They made the Daleks fly in the reboot series.
Russell T Davies is a homosexual lefty – using taxpayer money to fund projects promoting his agenda. Just a coincidence that the star of Torchwood was also a homosexual (actually not a bad series compared to what I can glean of the current crap which I cannot bear to watch).
😆 How to pimp your standard old-school Daleks and turn them into evil ‘Stair Masters’…Sounds like a job for the Top Gear boys. I did not know about this flying carry on, mind. I’m harking back to the best years, the ‘Tom Baker Years’ ( if he was the one with the long scarf ), as he was my fave, though there were a few others too. Nah, some things are definitely best left well alone, I think. Shouldn’t mess with the classics.
Yeah, Pertwee and Baker for me. The UNIT years.
I thought The Master was a good character.
Ecclestone was OK in the reboot, downhill after that.
I always think Lammy looks like a Sontaran warrior Sontaran – Wikipedia but that’s an insult to Sontarans who are an honourable and courageous people.
I also thought Tom Baker was the best Doctor Who, with Romana as the best assistant.
David Tennant was really good, too.
It was a creation of genius. Same bloke created The Avengers which I am enjoying re-runs of on Great TV. MacNee is a class act, and so are Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson. Can only watch old stuff now.
Oh yes, The Avengers— classic stuff!
Those of a certain age will remember what they were doing the day the first episode transmitted, since it was the day President Kennedy died (and incidentally C. S. Lewis too). As an eleven year old I remember being nonplussed that they repeated episode 1 the following week – I couldn’t imagine my friends being so upset at the assassination that they’d skipped the new Sci-Fi serial. Turns out it was repeated because there was a widespread power outage.
Anyone remember Victor Lewis Smith and the gay daleks sketch? I can’t remember what show it was on, radio I think, but very funny and clearly ahead of its time
Then of course there was Spike Milligan’s topical mixed marriage sketch (Dalek married to Pakistan immigrant).
As Doctor Who, Rwandan-born dual national “Scottish” actor Mizero Ncuti Gatwa was dismal (“irrepressibly dull and awful” as Monty Python would say), and everyone will be glad to know that he has been promised great new projects in Hollywood.
I look forward to the day when Ethnic Africans in the West will form their own film production companies, staffed entirely by Ethnic African directors, producers, actors, scriptwriters, stunt men, costume designers, cinematographers, soundtrack composers, orchestras, set designers, sound technicians, engineers, craftsmen, and all the wonderful array of people who work together to create good movies for the public to enjoy.
Way back when in London we had a window cleaner. Diamond geezer, worked two jobs, talented musician, dedicated father and husband. He was of African origin. One day he had popped up the road to get something from the parade of shops round the corner. He came back full of enthusiasm because he had found a shop owned and run by another black man – pretty sure he hadn’t seen many and I certainly have not either.
More juvenile drama from the BBC. Go woke go broke, soon I hope.
A BBC wokesperson said blah blah blah blah.
Nobody cares what the BBC says any longer.
I just want Dr Who to go back to being science fiction stories where Good encounters Bad, Bad nearly comes out on top, but Good wins in the end. We don’t need all the woke messaging embedded in the dialogue and storylines.
Although I find this woke stuff intensely irritating and/or patronising, at least I know my own mind, and I have the maturity and strength of opinion to dismiss it for the nonsense it is. What concerns me is that it’s just a small part of the dangerous rubbish being forced into the minds of our impressionable children, at home and at school, and that I cannot stomach.
Incidentally, I don’t care one jot about the ethnicity of the actor playing the Doctor. I just want them to be a good actor. But I did find the change of gender a bit too weird.
I didn’t understand half of that story line.
thank go their taking it off!
When I was eight years old I used to hide behind the sofa during Doctor Who, sometimes with my fingers in my ears, it scared me so much. I’m nearly seventy now and braver. But I still end up behind the sofa, fingers in ears.
Cyber men!! Terrifying!!
Ditto
the one with the weeping angel statues harked back to an old style I’d say
Some time after seeing that one husband and I plus the 3 children [early teens plus 8 year old] went to Berlin. One night we were heading back after a meal and the various statues, gargoyles etc on the illuminated buildings felt really freaky….. Walking pace may have upped a level!
Me too!
First watched in the 1960s on the old black and white Bush TV. Era after The Lone Ranger and era before Till Death Us Do Part. Maybe overlapped with Steptoe.
Daleks impersonated in corporate office in 1980’s, spouting latest corporate mantra (“lean and ag-ile or-gan-is-at-i-on, op-er-at-ing at lead-ing edge of cha-os”).
Revisited briefly in early 2000s (but never became offsprings’ thing). For EX-TER-MIN-ATE, EX-TER-MIN-ATE, nowadays read IN-DOC-TRIN-ATE, IN-DOC-TRIN-ATE.
Up the Commentariat.
I think the real low was when they had a white women enabling Rosa Parks on the bus.
The BBC panders to mentally ill gay people (and gays who seem to want to convert us all to homosexuality – like Russell T Davis) and weirdos and communists. The whole pile of leftist garbage should be shut down. Trump it all to the ground.
A source told the Sun: “Ncuti doesn’t want to be tied to the series beyond this and plans to relocate to Los Angeles with several Hollywood projects standing by for him.
Yeah, pushing Ben’s rice on adverts or contributing to Netflixs’ s horrendous losses. Way to go.😂
Ncuti Gatwa was born in Rwanda. There’s nothing Scottish about him. He may have a British passport, but that makes him British not Scottish.
The irony about David Tennant’s doctor was that in his earlier series, the sexual tension between him and Rose (Billie Piper) was palpable
Maybe he’d seen Secret Diary of a Call Girl in another dimension?…
“Read the rest here.”
No thanks. I think we got the gist 🤦♀️
I never minded the “Doctor” being a man, woman, black, white, asian, etc. Just as long as it had great story lines, ideas that made you think. With so much knowledge about cosmology evolving literally every week, there are great stories to tell. But I have not watched since the second season of Capaldi.
I forgot about Capaldi. He was really good in that role, as well.
Scottish? Is he from the Aberdeen MacGatwas?