EXCLUSIVE: Unhealthy Wolf‘s uncommon deal to make BBC Studios present Physician Who helped the Sony-owned manufacturing outfit to report revenues.
Unhealthy 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 creating the long-lasting sci-fi collection, Unhealthy Wolf recorded revenues of £117M ($148M) within the 12 months to the top of March 2023 — a 192% enhance on £40.2M in 2022.
Unhealthy Wolf subsidiary Whoniverse1, the particular objective automobile by which Physician Who is made, posted gross sales of £43M ($54M) within the 12 months to March.
The general £117M gross sales determine was Unhealthy Wolf’s highest income in a 12-month interval for the reason that firm was based by Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter in 2015.
Unhealthy Wolf did put up 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, in line with earnings revealed on Corporations Home.
Physician Who has at all times 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 cope with 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.
