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 | | It was not cancelled outright as such; although in-house production had ceased, the BBC were hopeful of finding an independent production company to re-launch the show and had been approached for such a venture by Philip Segal, a British expatriate who worked for Columbia Pictures' television arm in the United States. |
 | | Segal's negotiations dragged on for several years, and followed him from Columbia to Steven Spielberg's Amblin company and finally to Universal Studios, where in 1996, an attempt was made to revive the series with a telemovie starring Paul McGann as the Doctor. |
 | | A co-production between the BBC, Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox Television, it aired on the Fox Network on May 14, 1996, and in the UK on May 27, 1996. |
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