{"id":714586,"date":"2026-06-04T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714586\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:37:12","slug":"will-doctor-who-move-to-britbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714586\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Doctor Who move to BritBox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With \u201cclassic\u201d Doctor Who episodes coming to BritBox next week, it begs the question, will it also become the home of new episodes moving forward?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 10th June, we will have the Doctor Who classic episodes back on BritBox \u2013 s1-26 plus the movie, over 350 hours of content,\u201d a spokesperson tells TV Tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo newly discovered episodes will be included at this time. We hope to expand this collection to include more Doctor Who episodes in the future and are currently looking into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile writer Russell T. Davies has responded to queries the show might be scrapped entirely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bbc-update-on-doctor-who-future-imminent-showrunner-states-amid-concern-its-return-has-now-been-scrapped-or-postponed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IGN reports<\/a> he told BBC Radio 2, \u201cYou will get an announcement\u2026 there\u2019s a press release lumbering through the BBC, which as you know is like the Jurassic period and 57 people have to sign off on every single word. So I promise you, in about a week or two weeks, there will be a press release. And I can hear the gears slowing down even as I say this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With \u201cclassic\u201d Doctor Who episodes coming to BritBox next week, it begs the question, will it also become&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-714586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}