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Originally Posted by Damien
Do Disney ONLY have the international distribution rights or do they have a hand in production as well? I heard the production values would go up as a result of the Disney deal but have since heard Disney have nothing to do with the making of the show.
Or was it a precondition of the distribution deal that 'x' amount of the money has to go to improve production values?
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The final tile on the end credits looks like this:
Which sort of implies Disney is acknowledged as having a role in the commissioning of the series rather than simply being a buyer of the distribution rights. Whatever the strict legal arrangement I think it’s inconceivable that they would put that much money into it and not expect to see it being used in the production.
And it is - the FX budget on yesterday’s episode is reported to have been equivalent to an entire season’s FX budget from the last time Tennant was the Doctor.