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    From not@not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) to aus.tv on Sun Oct 30 07:13:37 2022
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    It looks like I might have seen my last new episode of Doctor Who.
    There's no way I'm paying anything significant for it based on the
    quality of the recent ones, nor would I otherwise want Disney+.

    ABC's five-decade partnership with Doctor Who ends after BBC
    confirms Disney+ deal from 2023
    Wed 26 Oct 2022
    - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-26/doctor-who-bbc-disney-deal/101580524101580524

    "After a partnership spanning more than five decades, Doctor Who
    will no longer appear on the ABC beyond the current season.

    Key points:
    Doctor Who first aired on the ABC in January 1965

    The ABC has been one of the longest-running broadcasters of the
    show outside the BBC

    New episodes will air in November 2023 on the BBC and Disney+ "
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  • From keithr0@user@account.invalid to aus.tv on Sun Oct 30 10:08:10 2022
    From Newsgroup: aus.tv

    On 30/10/2022 7:13 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
    It looks like I might have seen my last new episode of Doctor Who.
    There's no way I'm paying anything significant for it based on the
    quality of the recent ones, nor would I otherwise want Disney+.

    ABC's five-decade partnership with Doctor Who ends after BBC
    confirms Disney+ deal from 2023
    Wed 26 Oct 2022
    - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-26/doctor-who-bbc-disney-deal/101580524101580524

    "After a partnership spanning more than five decades, Doctor Who
    will no longer appear on the ABC beyond the current season.

    Key points:
    Doctor Who first aired on the ABC in January 1965

    The ABC has been one of the longest-running broadcasters of the
    show outside the BBC

    New episodes will air in November 2023 on the BBC and Disney+ "


    I seem to remember that originally there was a maximum number of times
    that Dr Who could regenerate, we must be getting close to that by now.
    The series after this, David Tennant will be back as the doctor, that's
    the first repeat, after that a black guy, so now it's getting inclusive
    and maybe the one after him will be a disabled chinese lesbian.
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  • From Sylvia Else@sylvia@email.invalid to aus.tv on Sun Oct 30 11:42:06 2022
    From Newsgroup: aus.tv

    On 30-Oct-22 11:08 am, keithr0 wrote:
    On 30/10/2022 7:13 am, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
    It looks like I might have seen my last new episode of Doctor Who.
    There's no way I'm paying anything significant for it based on the
    quality of the recent ones, nor would I otherwise want Disney+.

    ABC's five-decade partnership with Doctor Who ends after BBC
    confirms Disney+ deal from 2023
    -a Wed 26 Oct 2022
    -a -
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-26/doctor-who-bbc-disney-deal/101580524101580524

    "After a partnership spanning more than five decades, Doctor Who
    -a will no longer appear on the ABC beyond the current season.
    -a Key points:
    -a Doctor Who first aired on the ABC in January 1965
    -a The ABC has been one of the longest-running broadcasters of the
    -a show outside the BBC
    -a New episodes will air in November 2023 on the BBC and Disney+ "


    I seem to remember that originally there was a maximum number of times
    that Dr Who could regenerate, we must be getting close to that by now.
    The series after this, David Tennant will be back as the doctor, that's
    the first repeat, after that a black guy, so now it's getting inclusive
    and maybe the one after him will be a disabled chinese lesbian.

    No, they fixed the limit when Smith's doctor regenerated, since he was supposedly on his last life. The Time Lords gave him some more
    (apparently it's not some inherent in the biology, but within the Time
    Lords' gift. Odd that they don't all just live forever, then).

    Tenant's return may be a last-ditch effort to undo the damage done by
    Chris Chibnall (albeit with the connivance of the BBC). Would have been
    better to get Capaldi back, and claim that the Giball time was just a
    bad dream (do Time Lords dream?). Hey, it worked for "Dallas".

    Sylvia

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  • From Falscher Bruce@bruce56@topmail.co.nz to aus.tv on Thu Nov 10 00:05:07 2022
    From Newsgroup: aus.tv

    According to Chibnall's technobollocks, The Doctor was the "Timeless Child" from another world with apparently unlimited lives. The Time Lords figured out how to copy this, but with a limit of 12 regenerations. So The Doctor could go beyond 24 regenerations, if it is still running in 50 years....
    On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 8:42:08 AM UTC+8, Sylvia Else wrote:
    No, they fixed the limit when Smith's doctor regenerated, since he was supposedly on his last life. The Time Lords gave him some more
    (apparently it's not some inherent in the biology, but within the Time Lords' gift. Odd that they don't all just live forever, then).

    Tenant's return may be a last-ditch effort to undo the damage done by
    Chris Chibnall (albeit with the connivance of the BBC). Would have been better to get Capaldi back, and claim that the Giball time was just a
    bad dream (do Time Lords dream?). Hey, it worked for "Dallas".

    Sylvia
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