The BBC and Disney have introduced future seasons of Doctor Who will stream on Disney+ exterior the UK and Ireland. It’s the validation of a longstanding rumor that the UK’s public broadcaster was seeking to transfer the present from its conventional distribution community.

Back in July, Bloomberg reported that Disney was in search of “established” manufacturers to bolster its streaming platform. The world’s longest-running science-fantasy collection, with its personal international fanbase, definitely counts as a giant draw for any international streamer.

Naturally, new collection of Doctor Who will proceed to air on the BBC’s personal channels and streaming platform, iPlayer, within the UK and Ireland. The collection will return in November 2023 with a run of specials to have fun the present’s sixtieth anniversary, adopted by a brand new collection in 2024.

At the identical time, the BBC has introduced a brand new emblem and branding that can function on the present when it returns in 2023, in addition to its huge catalog of merchandise. The new emblem is a twenty first century replace of the basic “diamond” emblem, designed by Bernard Lodge in 1973.

It’s one of the vital recognizable pictures within the present’s lengthy historical past, and whereas the diamond’s shelf-life within the collection correct stretched from 1973 to 1980 (for all however one yr of Tom Baker’s Tenure) — it was additionally plastered on merchandise from the early ’70s all over to 1996. (Ironically, it was supplanted by a revamped model of the present’s 1969-1974 emblem.)

Back in 2018, the BBC recruited branding company LittleHawk to revitalize the present’s picture with a glance protecting each its Classic and New Series eras. The proven fact that, so shortly afterward, the present has opted to change again to an older look stands as a repudiation of LittleHawk’s work. Not to say the very fact it’ll trigger a lot consternation to the patrons of the present’s flagship Collection Blu-Ray boxsets. Who will, as soon as once more, need to take care of an inconsistent run of spines operating alongside their cabinets and are, arguably, the actual victims in all of this.