I am not sure they can bring Doctor Who back. They get more viewers from reruns then they do original content. They would have to bend time and space to return to the Doctor Who of Tennant and Smith. They went woke and broke the series. I liked the show because it had no basis in reality. The bad guys were straight out of the Fifties and Sixities. The characters were unreal, even the ones not from outer space. It was a break from all the bullshit life throws at us. They went woke and wrote the BS into the show. No fun to watch. How would you like to be known as the writer who killed Doctor Who.
Donna was a good companion. Honestly most since the reboot in 05 had been through Clara.. I mean honestly Clara often carried the show during her time...
Dr Who since the reboot would always have a “preachy” Episode now and again, but for the most part was simply entertaining. Even when it was purely obvious they were pushing homosexual normalization during the Russel T Davies era (every single episode had a gay character in it, and you were made sure to know they were gay, even though there was really no reason to know or care about their sexuality).
However in spite of that the shows we’re entertaining.. fun and escapism.
The writing began to decline significantly in the Matt Smith era... was still watchable but clearly nowhere near the level it had been before... as every season wore on the writing continued to get worse on average.. and not surprisingly the ratings continued to fall.
The make the master a woman was a pander and the make the doctor a woman was a complete and total pander. And of course the idiot feminists who praised it weren’t fans of the show.. so all their kudos weren’t going to save it. Hell DR Who since it’s rebirth has produced tons of strong female characters... and any fan of the show would know this.. but back when they announced this the usual feminazis screamed about how it was great to have a strong woman in the show etc...
They turned in for a few episodes, then remembered they hate sci-fi.. and moved on.. while the true fans, the bread and butter of the paychecks have had to suffer the pain week after week of this poorly thought out PR stunt.
Want the Doctor to return to glory?!? I think you have to fire Chris Chibnall, and bring in an entirely new experienced writing. Staff.
Dr who’s decline started in the Moffat era.. he just wasn’t as good as Davies and clearly Chibnall isn’t as good as Moffat..
Law of diminishing returns... until they bring in better writing, the shows going nowhere fast.
Again, I don’t thing Jodie or the rest of the cast are bad actors
They are doing their jobs well, it’s just what they are being asked to do is... frankly largely crap.