EXCLUSIVE: Dangerous Wolf‘s uncommon deal to make BBC Studios present Physician Who helped the Sony-owned manufacturing outfit to report revenues.
Dangerous Wolf was handed the manufacturing contract to Physician Who in September 2021 as a part of an settlement to revive Russell T Davies to the function of showrunner.
In its first 12 months of constructing the enduring sci-fi sequence, Dangerous Wolf recorded revenues of £117M ($148M) within the 12 months to the tip of March 2023 — a 192% enhance on £40.2M in 2022.
Dangerous Wolf subsidiary Whoniverse1, the particular function automobile via which Physician Who is made, posted gross sales of £43M ($54M) within the 12 months to March.
The general £117M gross sales determine was Dangerous Wolf’s highest income in a 12-month interval because the firm was based by Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter in 2015.
Dangerous Wolf did submit revenues of £121M in 2020, however this was for a 15-month interval after the corporate prolonged its accounting interval.
Primarily based in Wales, the manufacturing outfit’s pre-tax revenue of £7M in 2023 was up 366% on £1.5M within the earlier 12 months, based on earnings revealed on Firms Home.
Physician Who has all the time been made by the BBC or BBC Studios and there’s no precedent for the company handing over keys to such an iconic model to an exterior producer.
BBC Studios continues to personal the Physician Who model and oversees worldwide gross sales and merchandise. The corporate brokered the take care of Disney+ for streaming rights outdoors of the UK.
Gardner and Tranter, each former BBC producers, labored with Davies on the 2005 Physician Who relaunch. Their first episode again, a particular starring David Tennant, was watched by 7.6M on the BBC final month.
Ncuti Gatwa will take management of the Tardis for his first full episode on Christmas day. The Intercourse Training star is the fifteenth Physician.
