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The BBC's Color-Blind Casting In Doctor Who Faces Criticism For Erasing Colonial Struggle

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The backlash around Doctor Who wasn’t about aliens, monsters, or timey-wimey logic. It was about history. It started with Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder, which aired in December 2023 as part of the show’s 60th anniversary and brought back David Tennant and Catherine Tate. After it aired, fans pushed back on the casting of Nathaniel Curtis as Sir Isaac Newton, saying the episode treated the past as far more socially equal than it ever was (via Redd…
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Bleeding Cool News And Rumors broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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