Doctor Who: Flux is borrowing from the MCU, and the approach is proving to be a tremendous success. When the BBC canceled Doctor Who in 1989, in part it was because execs had lost interest in science-fiction as a genre.
However, sci-fi grew in importance as a genre over the next decade, and by the late '90s it was clear to the BBC's leadership that they needed a major science-fiction brand of their own. When Russell T.
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