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Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

The BBC has already denied this rubbish:

However, a spokesperson for Doctor Who commented: "This story is incorrect, Doctor Who has not been shelved. As we have previously stated, the decision on season 3 will be made after season 2 airs.​
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"The deal with Disney Plus was for 26 episodes – and exactly half of those still have to transmit. And as for the rest, we never comment on the Doctor and future storylines."​
 
The Nth Doctor said:
The BBC has already denied this rubbish:

However, a spokesperson for Doctor Who commented: "This story is incorrect, Doctor Who has not been shelved. As we have previously stated, the decision on season 3 will be made after season 2 airs.​
​
"The deal with Disney Plus was for 26 episodes – and exactly half of those still have to transmit. And as for the rest, we never comment on the Doctor and future storylines."​
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So the Disney deal included the 14th Doctor specials? For some reason I had it in my head that it didn't.

If Disney is locked in for funding 26 episodes then that means even after series 15 they're committed to another 5 episodes? (unless that's taken up with the War Between the Land and the Sea?)

Allyn Gibson said:
What?!? Who?!?
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I'm presuming Kris Marshall, who as far as I'm aware was never EVER hired to be Doctor Who and probably was never even in the running.
 
Allyn Gibson said:
What?!? Who?!?
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The bookies closed, as I recall — perhaps mistakenly — betting that Chris Marshall (of My Family and Death in Paradise fame) was to be the Doctor after Capaldi. And when you watch the aborted regen, (or maybe the actual, I can’t remember) there’s a feeling of someone’s face in there about to form… but obviously that’s not what happened. So I sometimes wonder, in that up-in-the-air behind the scenes stuff of the time (like Moffat and Capaldi pressing themselves into service one more time because Chibnall wasn’t going to do a Christmas special) that it was going to happen… and then didn’t. Of course, the production dates might not match with Jodie’s Wimbledon announcement, but I can’t help but wonder. There were all sorts of pivots at the time, and Marshall was a decent choice and BBC mainstay of the era. I can see the higher ups picking him as a safe bet and return to Smith style, when the production side was in a fair bit of flux.

As I say, idle thoughts rather than properly reasoned supposition. It was a thought at the time, that I’ve never really gone to research.

Edit: yup, Kris not Chris.
 
There are two new DW novels featuring Ncuti’s Doctor and next season’s companion Belinda Chandra coming out this year. Hopefully that speaks to a little more confidence from the Beeb and showrunners than these reports might lead one to believe.

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jaime said:
The bookies closed, as I recall — perhaps mistakenly — betting that Kris Marshall (of My Family and Death in Paradise fame) was to be the Doctor after Capaldi.
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Honestly, given that Chibnall had worked with Jodie before on Broadchurch, I think she was, like Tennant with RTD for series 2, the only real choice for the role.

That said, I could see Kris Marshall being a bit like Nigel Havers on Star Trek: Voyager, a male back-up for the female lead in case the producers' higher-ups ultimately vetoed that direction. And the "insiders" running to the betting markets maybe didn't understand that distinction.
 
I still think Marshall was never anything but a distraction, someone for the media to focus on while the real actor was cast.

I'm increasingly coming to think that Aaron Taylor-Johnson might be performing the same role for Bond...
 
Starkers said:
I still think Marshall was never anything but a distraction, someone for the media to focus on while the real actor was cast.

I'm increasingly coming to think that Aaron Taylor-Johnson might be performing the same role for Bond...
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As far as ATJ is concerned, I hope so.
Two or three relatively cheerful Cavill Bonds should make a decent palate cleanse and change of pace after the Quintology we just had.
 
I actually enjoyed last season, and I like Ncuti's Doctor so far, so I really hope we get more the end of the series. But then again, we have gotten 15 soon to be 16 seasons, one spin off that lasted 4 seasons, one that last 5 seasons, another that lasted 1, and another one on the way since the revival, so it's had a pretty good run, and I have a feeling like Star Trek, it'll probably be back again in a few years.
I know the Australian K-9 is technically a spin-off, but since it has absolutely nothing to do with Doctor Who beyond K-9, who isn't even a version of K-9 from it, I consider it it's own thing.
 
They need to cap it off with an Xmas special and resolve the Tennant/14 thing probably… if we8re going into a wilderness years scenario, you need the show in a place and with a face that can hold it. Cartmel/McCoy and seasons 25 and 26 had won over enough people after the Saward/Baker II controversies that it went fairly well with an existing fan base the first time. Then we got lucky with McGann winning over enough that the Eighth taking over as the face of Who worked quite well.
These days we maybe don’t have the numbers of dyed in the wool fans, less of a generational sense, and two Doctors in a row who really haven’t landed so well.
Much as as his domination of the series has been cemented since Capaldi left, we may need a Tennant faced Doctor to be the holding pattern.

Anyway, there’s also rumours thag the Beeb *have* commissioned a ‘third’ series — which is quite believable — and that Disney are holding off any decision for now (apparently on the strength that the Moffat penned Xmas Special was going to be more Who than the season preceding it) after the reaction to the first wasn’t what was wanted.
Problem being it’s more than likely that this second half of the Ncuti seasons is just going to be more of the same, or even possibly *worse*.
I can well believe Ncuti is off — though I think it’s not Who that is his millstone, and that the balance is a little more two-way than that.

Comes full circle really — can the show fix itself? Can it do it while under RTD?

Or are we heading to an era of nothing but UK Gold repeats and if we’re a lucky a Children In Need sketch, while expanded media (that’s a nice, if not very Who, cover for that book…) pick up the slack?
 
The thing about the Tennant rumours is that it could be something on the radar (it works in-universe, they’ve done it before, he’s a safe bet for viewers) and it could also just be the Fail coming up with lazy clickbait. Either is equally likely.
 
Captaindemotion said:
The thing about the Tennant rumours is that it could be something on the radar (it works in-universe, they’ve done it before, he’s a safe bet for viewers) and it could also just be the Fail coming up with lazy clickbait. Either is equally likely.
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Both seasons were filmed back to back, so it's possible that the big bazinga might occur next year, as opposed to the hooks and vibes in season 1 and leading to another example of subversion, much like Ruby's alleged revelation with the snowflake things.

Unless it doesn't. Apart from clickbait YT channels, is anyone really curious enough to care?
 
This was always gonna be an issue once Tennant didn't regenerate into Ncuti. I appreciate you could always have the Doctor regenerate into a past incarnation now you've done it once, but having 14 lying around off camera just makes it easier.

Christ it's a terrible article, wonder if journos gets paid a bonus for each time they shoehorn the word woke into an article? Plus you'd like they'd like that the drag queen was a deranged villain?

I totally understand why RTD and the BBC brought Tennant back but the bi-generation really has created a rod for every future Doctor's back.
 
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