BBC have responded to a recent leak of footage from the upcoming season of Doctor Who by preparing to sue themselves.
What…?
The head-scratching development comes via an application filed with the California District Court, regarding a 53-second clip that was leaked last week. BBC are hoping to get the messaging platform Tapatalk to release records that help reveal the culprit behind the leak.
This is where it gets weird, however. The clip in question was in a pre-edit form, without any final music or visual processing done on it.
Thus, the only people who’d have access to the clip… are employees of BBC themselves!
I did not see this coming.
The application came with a prepared statement that had all the gravitas of a school principal telling off every school student at assembly, saying they take “theft and illegal distribution of our content extremely seriously.”
The clip, featuring footage of Jodie Whittaker, the first woman to play the titular Doctor, was expected to premiere later this month at San Diego Comic Con’s Hall H, where most trailers and clips get filmed on shaky iPhones anyway.
Which means that rather than watching a poor-quality upload of their final product today, we’ll have to just wait a month until we can watch a poor-quality upload of their final product.
