Dr Who (2005) writer states the show is dead

[Qonfounding Ghooool]

Dalek Writer, Rob Shearman, Says “Doctor Who Is Probably As Dead As We’ve Ever Known It”

He’s summed up the mood of the Doctor Who world pretty well…

thedoctorwhocompanion.com

“I go through phases. I have a real push/pull thing with the show. At the moment, I’m in a ‘pull’ phase. It’s weird because the show is probably as dead as we’ve ever known it.

“After 1989, we had, for years, a current Doctor. Now, everything that is ever going to be produced in Doctor Who terms is going to feel retrogressive. At least with the New Adventures and then the BBC Books, you thought, ‘It’s the current Doctor – [Seventh Doctor, Sylvester] McCoy or [Eighth Doctor, Paul] McGann’. No one’s going to start writing Doctor Who books with a Billie Piper Doctor, because no one knows what that means. In a funny way, the closing moments of The Reality War seem to put a full stop on things. We didn’t have that before.”

Article has more, but nobody knew much of the 8th Doctor either and he had about five thousand books. Assuming the current casting actually had anything other than "stunt", "joke", "trolling", or whatever the real reason was for ending the show on such a cliffhanger.

I wonder if Rob ever read the original final episode script of "The Trial of a Time Lord", which was yanked by then-producer John Nathan-Turner over fears that it would have put a full stop to the show's future back in 1986. Even without the 1996 television movie, there are many ways a revival, reboot, sequel, remake, and/or whatever other term you wish to use, can take place to get the ball rolling again.

 

[Judge Death]

I think this has already been discussed in the RTD returns thread

 

[camdudetenger2018]

more like its in hibernation like yogi bear and boo boo bear sleeping in the caves during winter

 

[Christopher]

The thread title is very misleading. He's not saying the show is cancelled, just that nobody knows what comes next so the tie-ins won't be able to address the new status quo. Before, when the original series ended, at least the Seventh Doctor and Ace were still current, so the books could move forward from that, and did so quite extensively. And when McGann came in with the movie, the books and audios could move forward with that as well. But with the current state of affairs, the show going on hiatus just after an ambiguous regeneration, nobody knows how to move forward, so the tie-ins can only backfill the continuity.

So he doesn't mean "dead" in the sense of having rung up the curtain and joined the choir invisible, but more in the sense of dead calm -- there's no wind to fill the sails, so we can't move forward until the wind picks up again.