Doctor Who Star Ncuti Gatwa “Axed” and BBC Show to be “Put on Pause” Amid Falling Ratings and Woke Storylines
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been axed by the BBC after just two series and the once popular show has been put on an ‘extended pause’ amid falling ratings and woke storylines, it’s been reported today. The Mail has more.
The BBC programme is also said to have been paused for an extended break amid criticism about plots about non-binary aliens and incels.
Fans of the show have also lamented some of the programme’s best loved villains being given ‘woke’ facelifts. In one episode Ncuti’s Doctor admitted he was gay.
It came after Gatwa’s withdrawal from presenting the UK’s Eurovision jury scores on Saturday night after Israel made the final. Gatwa has previously been vocal in his support for Palestine.
The current Doctor Who is yet to comment but the BBC has said that claims he has already been axed are “pure speculation” and that no decision has been made.
There have also been rumours Mr Gatwa was planning to walk away himself and concentrate on breaking Hollywood.
“As we have previously stated, the decision on season 3 will be made after season 2 airs'” a BBC spokesman said.
There was some anger as the announcement Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti had withdrawn from presenting Eurovision came moments after Israel’s Yuval Raphael – a survivor of the October 7th attacks – qualified for the final with her song “New Day Will Rise”. She ended up finishing second to Austria last Saturday. Sophie Ellis-Bextor stepped in for him.
A TV insider reportedly said: “If the final nail wasn’t already in the coffin, it was well and truly hammered in after that.
“Bosses were incredibly disappointed. Ncuti, as the Doctor, is one of the corporation’s most high-profile faces.
The source told the Sun: “His withdrawal was incredibly embarrassing. It caps what has been a largely depressing tenure in the Tardis for Ncuti.” …
An insider said: “Everything is now pointing in the direction of a prolonged break once the next series has aired. It will be back to the drawing boards for the Doctor Who team.”
All together now: go woke, go broke.
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Never heard of him. But then I don’t watch TV, let alone the BBC.
Hmm. Ncuti. Lets play “rearrange the letters” and what could we come up with?
Tunic?
😀😀😀
I Cnut? 😊
Anglo-Danish, sometimes written “Canute”
Tncui?
A man who describes himself as ”a gender non-conforming person” and member of the queer community has to make a video about how anxious he is going to public toilets because they are single-sex spaces. Of course he does. I’m actually surprised he didn’t infiltrate the ladies and do the obligatory ‘conquest selfie’ and upload it. He could just go straight to the cubicle in the men’s loos and lock himself in if he’s afraid he’ll be molested due to his pink nail varnish. Seriously, these people have mental issues, being self-obsessed is clearly one of the symptoms;
https://x.com/DreyfusJames/status/1924886929952137402
Saves the bother of developing a personality I suppose. All this magical thinking is a gift to the dull and mediocre.
I’m anxious about going to public toilets. Too often they’re filthy.
I guess telling him to “man up” would be a hate crime? Just asking for a friend/
The BBC will never go broke with the mug license fee payers as hostages.
Assuming the licence fee has gone up more or less in line with inflation, it was either far too low before or it’s far too high now because their audience share will have dropped massively from say the 1970s pre-internet when there were only 3 channels.
Cyber Leader: “So, Doctor, your long association with the Earthlings has finally resulted in you regenerating as a clown. And the pitiful people you tried to save and champion have in the end rejected you. Evidently even a Time Lord can waste his time”.
I remember (I think) an episode with the third Doctor played by Jon Pertwee some sort of time loop brings back the second Doctor played by Patrick Troughton and the first Doctor played by William Hartnell. The Hartnell Doctor is irritated and complains: So these are my replacements? A Clown and a Dandy?
(I just looked it up: The Three Doctors 1972-73)
I enjoyed Doctor Who then.
It was just an amusing half hour, with baddies you could be frightened of if you were young enough, and storylines that didn’t test you too much either. Now everything has to have a message, or is making a statement in this case about the lead actors sexuality. Guess what. We dont care. We want him to use his skill to portray someone who is not him. Thats acting, right..?
Indeed, that’s acting. Beryl Reid as a starship captain, and Nicholas Parsons as a vicar.
Yes. The actor’s sexuality should be irrelevant (Go on, pretend!). The character’s sexuality is also irrelevant in a show like Doctor Who.
Not to the BBC it isn’t – any chance they get to preach…
Hartnell – the original and the best.
Ah, the many hours spent filming in an old sand pit in Redhill, Surrey as it became all kinds of alien planets.
No new day will rise for Doctor Who unless the production team understand the success of the pre-millennium series. In the first episode of the current series, the Doctor is made to say that he was never a detective. This completely inaccurate. In the pre-millennium series each story starts with a mysterious occurrence that the Doctor and his assistant, acting like Sherlock Holmes and Watson, must investigate. The mystery is slowly revealed over an average of four episodes of 25 minutes each. This allows a sense of suspense to build. The denouement is only satisfying because of this. Typically in the post-millennium series there is one story per episode. The mystery and suspense have of necessity to be replaced by noise and frenetic activity. Additionally, the signature cliff hangers of the originals are absent. In satisfying the audience’s need for instant gratification, the ability of the production to satisfy is diminished with each series. That the cliff hangers were theatrically exaggerated was part of the charm of the whole. The lavish and expensive CGI of the post-millennium series is another aspect which might have been expected to be an improvement over the stage sets of the 1970s and 1980s. Yet… Read more »
Brilliant post
Loved Blake’s 7 for the reasons you mention
The basic idea of Dr Who was genius and all you need are good stories and characters around that. It doesn’t need to be a big budget production
I remember ITV’s Robin Hood having the best scenery.
There’s a certain pattern to long running series. You start off with the early episodes being about ‘real’ people responding to the ‘real’ environment the series is about. So… Miami Vice was initially a police procedural, Doctor Who was a science fiction adventure.
Then we get a ‘middle section’ where all the easy plots have been used up and so unrealistic and strange events are thrown at our protagonists. Loops in time are favoured for science fiction series. Long lost relatives appearing in family sagas.
Then you get the protagonists writing the scripts to demonstrate how wonderful their ‘character’ can be.
And finally the protagonist(s) reveal all the tensions and squabbles to the media trying to maintain their celebrity while the story meanders around looking for a storyline that will bring back earlier audiences.
My guess is that Doctor Who has reached this final phase and all the Daleks in the world cannot rescue the series.
“… has been axed by the BBC after just two series and the once popular show has been put on an ‘extended pause’ amid falling ratings and woke storylines, it’s been reported today.”
Not as if numerous people saw this coming and predicted it.
Rwandan-Scottish – another choir-boy? Hoots mon!
Marvellous.
I don’t watch the BBC.
The new Doctor should be a trans Dalek.
The jerk circle just got tighter..
Surely the best headline would be:
‘The BBC tax (aka- licence fee) is to have be paused for an extended break amid criticism about…….’
It would be interesting to read the
……..reasons 🤔
The only thing I’m amazed about is that ANYONE has been watching it.
Break Hollywood???😀 Nobody watches their woke drivel either. He’ll be right at home.
I was contemplating saying goodbye to the programme (having watched since the Hartnell days) and then they made the Doctor a woman. That clinched it, and I’ve never watched since or experienced withdrawal symptoms
A brain rotted queer, Nctui Gwataw won’t be missed.
Utter nasty shite and have never watched as it is ridiculous like jazz or musicals.