{"id":919665,"date":"2026-10-07T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:56:12","slug":"line-of-duty-team-may-reboot-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/919665\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Line of Duty&#8221; Team May Reboot &#8220;Doctor Who&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/line-of-duty-team-may-reboot-doctor-who.jpg\" data-caption=\"BBC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/line-of-duty-team-may-reboot-doctor-who.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"line-of-duty-team-may-reboot-doctor-who\"\/><\/a>BBC<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLine of Duty\u201d and \u201cBodyguard\u201d creator\/showrunner Jed Mercurio is attached as executive producer to one of the proposals for a \u201cDoctor Who\u201d reboot at The BBC.<\/p>\n<p>As previously revealed, the network launched a competitive tender for the sixteenth season of its long-running sci-fi series with the aim of getting the series on air by 2028 or 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Producers will pitch in a bake-off-style process to refresh the series in a major creative overhaul of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/doctor-who-bids-revealed-jed-mercurio-bbc-scotland-1237147648\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a> reports that production company Hat Trick Mercurio, which Mercurio runs with Jimmy Mulville, has submitted a proposal. Mercurio is a sci-fi fan and previously created the BBC series \u201cInvasion: Earth\u201d in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a separate proposal has been submitted by production company World Productions that produces Mercurio\u2019s various shows along with series like \u201cVigil,\u201d \u201cThe Bletchley Circle\u201d and \u201cThe Bombing of Pan Am 103\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A third bid is coming from STV Studios, the Scottish production company on shows like \u201cCriminal Record\u201d and \u201cBlue Lights\u201d.  Two different BBC Studios labels are also expected to table bids.  The deadline for submissions was last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/first-look-mike-flanagans-the-exorcist-martyrs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Look: Mike Flanagan\u2019s \u201cThe Exorcist: Martyrs\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/first-third-watch-dogs-get-new-versions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First &amp; Third \u201cWatch Dogs\u201d Get New Versions?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC \u201cLine of Duty\u201d and \u201cBodyguard\u201d creator\/showrunner Jed Mercurio is attached as executive producer to one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,427],"class_list":["post-919665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919665","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=919665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}