"Doctor Who" to Disney+ / Formula 1 ESPN deal / MrBeast seeks $150M / "Industry" renewed for S3

Plus today's calendar, "Bad Crimes" canceled, "House of the Dragon" European record, WBD to spend $1.5B, and more

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A new agreement between the BBC and Disney will bring upcoming seasons of the cult sci-fi drama "Doctor Who" exclusively to Disney+ outside the UK and Ireland. Ncuti Gatwa, who will make his debut as the 15th incarnation of The Doctor in 2023, made the announcement during an appearance on "Live with Kelly and Ryan" on Tuesday. More: The new partnership will begin in November of 2023, coinciding with the "Doctor Who" franchise's 60th anniversary. Prior to Gatwa's introduction as the 15th Doctor, David Tennant will return to the franchise as The Doctor for a series of three specials.  "Doctor Who" currently streams in the US on HBO Max. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

ESPN signed a three-year deal to continue broadcasting Formula 1 in the US, extending the agreement through 2025. The new extension will keep commercial-free Formula 1 races on the air, while additional content will also stream on ESPN+. More: Under the terms of the deal, which is valued at an estimated $75-$90 million annually, at least 16 races per season will air on either ESPN or ABC. Formula 1 owners Liberty Media apparently also received offers from NBC, Amazon, and Netflix for the rights. ESPN does not produce its own Formula 1 broadcasts; instead, it runs Sky Sports' coverage commercial-free. Disney captured the largest US TV audience in the history of Formula 1 racing earlier this year, with 2.6 million viewers tuning in live to watch the Miami Grand Prix on ABC. Netflix's behind-the-scenes F1 docuseries "Drive to Survive" is credited with the wave of new stateside interest in the sport. FORBES

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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Horror anthology series, created and hosted by the Oscar-winning filmmaker (who also co-wrote two of the episodes). It features eight chilling tales, each from a different director; the list of contributors includes Vincenzo Natali ("Cube"), Ana Lily Amirpour ("A Girl Walks Home At Night"), Jennifer Kent ("The Babadook"), and Panos Cosmatos ("Mandy"). [Netflix] FORTUNE FEIMSTER: GOOD FORTUNE: The comedian's second Netflix special was filmed at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and features material about getting engaged and also getting a butt massage. [Netflix] BLADE OF THE 47 RONIN: 2022 action fantasy film, intended as a follow-up to 2013's "47 Ronin." The new film is set in the modern day, as samurai clans continue to covertly do battle in secret. Anna Akana, Teresa Ting, and Mark Dacascos co-star. [Netflix] BARBIE EPIC ROAD TRIP: Interactive animated film based on the iconic Mattel toy line, and spun off from the Netflix series "Barbie: It Takes Two." It follows Malibu and Brooklyn as they join friends Skipper and Ken for a cross-country road trip to deliver rescue dogs to their new homes. [Netflix] ONCE UPON A TIME IN LONDONGRAD: Six-part docuseries, originally produced for Sky, looking back at 14 mysterious deaths in the UK over two decades with alleged connections to Russian oligarchs or the Russian government. [Peacock] THE BOULET BROTHERS' DRAGULA: TITANS: 10-part drag reality competition series bringing back experienced "Dragula" veterans for a shot at a $100,000 grand prize and a spot on the franchise's upcoming world tour. The Boulet Brothers created the show and co-host; guest judges include Elvira, Harvey Guillen, Justin Simien, David Dastmalchian, and horror icon Barbara Crampton. [Shudder] THE FRENCH DISPATCH: Writer/director Wes Anderson's 2021 anthology comedy-drama -- an homage to journalists and specifically, classic contributors to The New Yorker --  summarizes the final contributions of the French foreign bureau of the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper in the year 1975. The ensemble cast includes Owen Wilson, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Henry Winkler, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, and Bill Murray. [Hulu]

Axios reported that YouTuber and entrepreneur MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson) hopes to raise $150 million for his companies at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Donaldson will use the money to expand his businesses, which currently include online videos, restaurants, consumer goods, and merchandise. More: The MrBeast channel currently has 107 million subscribers on YouTube, making it the platform's fifth-most-subscribed destination globally. The 24-year-old built his audience largely around viral stunts and challenges. This would mark the first institutional investment in the MrBeast brand, which currently includes the MrBeast Burger food delivery business; a physical MrBeast Burger location in New Jersey; and a snack business called Feastables, which raised $5 million on its own in January. AXIOS

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HBO renewed the financial drama series "Industry" for a third season. The show's eight-episode Season 2 wrapped up last month. More: The series is co-produced with the BBC and set in London, among young executives at the fictional investment bank Pierpoint & Co. "Industry" comes from first-time creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, who previously wrote for the David Hasselhoff comedy series "Hoff the Record." The cast includes Myha’la Herrold, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, David Jonsson, and Ken Leung. HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Byer and Lapkus Netflix canceled plans for the adult animated comedy series "Bad Crimes" mid-production. Producers from newly-formed company Bandera Entertainment, including long-time TV veterans Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, will shop the project around to other networks and streamers. More: Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus co-star as best friends and FBI agents who travel around the country together solving grisly homicides. "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" vet Nicole Silverberg created the series and executive produced along with Daniels and Judge. Netflix's former head of adult animation, Mike Moon, exited the company in July, and now works at Illumination; former HBO Max senior vice president of comedy and animation Billy Wee took over control of the division. The streamer has canceled a number of other animated projects this year, including "Wings of Fire" from producer Ava DuVernay; the preschool educational series "Antiracist Baby"; an animated series based on the cult comic book series "Bone"; and the movie "With Kind Regards from Kindergarten." VARIETY

According to Warner Bros. Discovery's own internal figures, "House of the Dragon" set a new streaming viewership record across Europe. The first eight-episode season of the "Game of Thrones" spinoff, which wrapped up on Sunday night, was even more popular among European streaming video-on-demand audiences than its predecessor series, according to WBD. More: WBD did not provide any specific European viewership numbers. Apparently, each episode of "House of the Dragon" averaged around 29 million viewers in the US. The show scored the largest audience for any debut series in HBO's history, and set new records for an HBO Max series debut in the US, Latin America, and Europe. "House of the Dragon" currently streams on HBO Max in 39 countries in Latin America, and 21 countries in Europe; HBO Go offers the series in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. DEADLINE

QUICK HITS Get ahead of the holiday madness and gear up your influencer and affiliate strategy for success.* According to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Warner Bros. Discovery plans to spend $1.5 billion shrinking the company over the next two years. During a recent Instagram Q&A, former "The Witcher" producer Beau DeMay claimed that some of the writers working on the show "actively disliked the books and games" and occasionally even mocked the source material; DeMay, who's now showrunner on Disney+'s "X-Men '97" animated sequel series, says it's mandatory that his writers are fans of the original show. Amazon grabbed the rights to "Night Riders," the new film from "Pachinko" and "Blue Bayou" director Justin Chon; it's described as a gritty crime thriller about two friends who find their close bond tested. A representative for Netflix told TMZ that, despite the recent controversies surrounding rapper Ye's anti-Semitic comments, the streaming service has no plans to pull the three-part documentary profile "Jeen-Yuhs" from its library. A bit of Disney+ code first discovered by MacRumors writer Steve Moser indicates that the upcoming Disney+ ad-supported "Basic Tier" may disable the platform's GroupWatch and SharePlay features. The second season of the Viking-themed anime series "Vinland Saga" premieres internationally -- outside of Japan -- on January 9, 2023, on both Netflix and Crunchyroll. *This is sponsored content

Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." Editor Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade.

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