After Disney's Doctor Who Break-Up, Spin-Off Series The War Between The Land And The Sea Gets UK-Only Launch Date

The War Between The Land And The Sea, the adjacent section of the Doctor Who universe, has present been fixed a UK-specific motorboat day — but viewers person been near successful the acheronian astir its merchandise elsewhere, pursuing the break-up of Disney's co-funding deal.

UK viewers volition get to ticker The War Between The Land And The Sea's archetypal 2 episodes via BBC iPlayer and BBC One connected Sunday, December 7 from 8.30pm. Further episodes volition past merchandise weekly, with the finale owed connected Sunday, December 28.

Despite today's announcement by the BBC, however, Disney has remained soundless connected erstwhile it volition adhd the bid to its streaming service. The BBC has simply said it expects the amusement to get connected Disney+ sometime successful 2026 — a oversea alteration to erstwhile episodes of Doctor Who which were released simultaneously with the BBC worldwide.

Is Disney holding backmost the bid for a reason, oregon is it simply nary longer prioritizing its merchandise present it has nary plans to money immoderate aboriginal Doctor Who content? It's unclear. But, arsenic of yet, Disney has made nary announcement of erstwhile it intends to aerial the amusement alongside the BBC's ain property release. Similarly, Disney did not contented immoderate signifier of connection erstwhile the BBC precocious confirmed the 2 company's concern was over.

The five-part miniseries was portion of Disney's archetypal committedness to co-fund the aboriginal of Doctor Who, alongside 2 seasons of the amusement featuring Ncuti Gatwa arsenic its star. But a caller study claimed that the narration betwixt the 2 soured arsenic viewing figures failed to marque an impression, and Disney tightened its purse strings.

Doctor Who fans person spent overmuch of this twelvemonth waiting for an reply connected the franchise's future, aft the penning appeared to beryllium connected the partition precocious past twelvemonth that a recommission of Disney's concern for a 3rd afloat Doctor Who play was taking longer than expected. As the twelvemonth began, the BBC reworked the ending of the show's astir caller finale into a farewell to Gatwa, who discontinue the show, and added a last-minute cliffhanger starring Billie Piper.

Last month, the BBC yet announced Disney had besides discontinue Doctor Who, and said it would money a one-off occurrence of the bid owed to aerial successful December 2026 that's expected to wrapper up the series' existent storyline predicament. Beyond that, thing is yet known.

Until then, The War Between The Land And The Sea volition beryllium fans' last portion of the Whoniverse for 12 months. Centering connected alien quality bureau UNIT and featuring respective characters antecedently seen connected Doctor Who, the bid volition diagnostic a struggle betwixt humans and the classical series' Sea Devils.

Earlier this month, existent showrunner Russell T Davies said that the bid would present the conception that the Sea Devils sanction is really racist, and truthful the taxon volition beryllium re-canonized arsenic 'homo aqua'.

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