The BBC’s official Invitation to Tender for Doctor Who 2026 includes a mandatory diversity requirement under its Strategic Priorities Award Criteria — production companies bidding to make the show must demonstrate 25 percent diversity in their off-screen production teams to be eligible. The requirement narrows the field of qualified bidders before any creative pitch is evaluated, making the production company’s demographic composition a prerequisite for consideration alongside creative and financial qualifications. Doctor Who writer and insider Mark Gatiss predicted weeks ago that the BBC tender process would quietly fail the same way the show quietly ended in 1989 — not with an official cancellation but with bureaucratic drift until the series simply stopped being made. A mandatory diversity quota embedded in the bidding criteria is exactly the kind of institutional friction Gatiss was describing.
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