10 Failed Doctor Who Movies (And Why They Didn't Happen)

3. K9's Standalone Movie

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The most recent development in the Doctor Who film scene, it was announced in 2015 that K9 was set to get his own movie, with a targeted release date of 2017.

Titled K9: TimeQuake, the project was developed by Bob Baker and Paul Tams, creators of the short-lived K9 TV show which aired a single season in 2009 and 2010. The movie was set to feature the robotic dog facing off against famous Doctor Who villain Omega, and would've been purely standalone, with no connection to that aforementioned K9 show.

But when 2017 came and went with no sign of the movie, suspicions began to grow that it had been cancelled. Out of nowhere, the next development arrived in 2018, when it was reported that a "multi million dollar" K9 TV series was in development that would launch before the feature film, with more updates promised "in early 2019."

And that's the last we heard of this whole thing. 2019 has been a barren wasteland in terms of K9 movie news, and considering that the 2009 show didn't do too well on the ratings front anyway, it doesn't seem like there's much of an appetite for more K9 adventures, on the big screen or the small screen.

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