From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Russell T. Davies has encountered maybe more than his fair share of unbridled fan energy

and his years as showrunner of the long-running science fiction series, Doctor Who.

So when fans get stroppy, he takes it in stride.

If we have a better fan, this is what fandom is.

You start to listening to saying the fandom is cross,

then you're simply describing what the state of fandom is,

because there's so much love, there's so much passion,

and there's so much integrity and so much devotion to something,

then of course tempers run high.

It's a glorious thing.

Russell T. Davies talks to Eric Deggans about relaunching Doctor Who with a much bigger budget now that it's on Disney Plus.

Davies also talks about casting sex education Shudi Gatwa as the new doctor and explains why he thinks writing Doctor Who is the hardest job in television.

But first we banter. Stick around.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So this was not a really great week for Hollywood.

I think we can safely say.

Earnings were announced by Disney and Warner Brothers Discovery. And even

though both companies had something good to say, I mean, Disney's like, we made money on streaming

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