Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[Mr. Adventure]

Saw this on Twitter from Disney's first go around with Doctor Who apparently.
https://twitter.com/_cosmicangst/status/1550468640360783872

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Steven Moffat is set to return to write a number of episodes for Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor under Russell T Davies.

Under RTD?

 

[StCoop]

Not much of a surprise.

There's been several times since Russell's return was announced that he's been asked if he'd come back and his reply has always been the (to quote TV Tropes) Suspiciously Specific Denial that'd he'd never come back as showrunner again.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Having recently watched and enjoyed the new tv version of The Time Traveler’s Wife, which Moffat adapted for the screen, and which features many Moffaty-Moffatisms, and quite a few scenes and tropes redolent of Eleven and Amy, I am more than up for his return to DW.

 

[jaime]

Honestly, short of going Full Dallas, this is looking like a hefty smack of the reset button. Thank goodness, if I am honest.
I never fully understood the fans who wandered off during Colin Baker or were annoyed in those days (including famously Chibnall himself) but these last few years have given me a better understanding of them.

 

[jaime]

They already have a solution for that: Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey multiverse.

Exactly. But now they can just literally have the seventh doctor and deaths head, or the sixth and ‘voyager’ be an episode in Loki.
(I know they can’t really, but the thought is worthwhile, especially with de-aging cgi…)

 

[StCoop]

Blimey, that was quick. Disney got the first crossover out already. Groot meets the Adipiose.

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[Haggis and tatties]

The oncoming storm. The man who typically has a child at the center of the plot. The one. The only. He is rumored to return....

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=441891514619240&set=a.434881908653534

According to the same source that leaked Tennant and Tate’s return, Steven Moffat is set to return to write a number of episodes for Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor under Russell T Davies.



Tennant and Tate may have wrapped filming now, with Ncuti scheduled to film his episodes in around three months time

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1550120270383292418


If you scrawl down the chain of comments, there's also a reveal that Tennant Is referred to internally as the 'Bridge Doctor'

This just keeps getting better and better. :-)

Ok, Moffet needs to do a sequal to Space and Time, but staring himself and RTD, and they are back in the Who writers room, when all of a sudden the tardis appears in the room and Moffet and RTD step out..........now this is were it gets complicated. lol

 

[Starkers]

IF this is true, I would welcome that. Moffat was always a better at smaller scale solo stories than he was with big sweeping arcs (which I mostly enjoyed, probably more than most). Everything he wrote for Davies gold and I'd like to think the same would be true this time around.

IF this is true.

Oh please let this be true. I would probably disagree with you though, I think Moffat's sweeping arcs worked as well as RTD's ever did, both are flawed, just in different ways.

Having recently watched and enjoyed the new tv version of The Time Traveler’s Wife, which Moffat adapted for the screen, and which features many Moffaty-Moffatisms, and quite a few scenes and tropes redolent of Eleven and Amy, I am more than up for his return to DW.

Is it complete? I'd heard it was cancelled after one season but I'd thought it was just going to be a limited series anyway?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Oh please let this be true. I would probably disagree with you though, I think Moffat's sweeping arcs worked as well as RTD's ever did, both are flawed, just in different ways.

Oh, I agree on that point. I just think his solo work was far stronger than his arcs.

 

[Marc]

I would love to see the tardis land on Pluto.

On a day when the TARDIS is being a bit Goofy?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

On most days the tardis Disney work.

(Does that work outside the Glasgow accent?) lol

 

[Captaindemotion]

Is it complete? I'd heard it was cancelled after one season but I'd thought it was just going to be a limited series anyway?

I thought it was a limited series, being based on the book, but as I haven’t read the book, I don’t know how closely it followed the book, including the ending. I won’t spoil it for you but

Spoiler: This might be considered a spoiler for the ending of TTTW

the ending was quite ambiguous and could be seen as an ambiguous ending, in keeping with much of the show, or a cliffhanger to be resolved in a second season..I had assumed the former until you mentioned cancellation.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Man, Moffat coming back for RTD would be glorious. Like, the last thing I'd actually expect, since Moffat seemed spent by his own admission.

 

[jaime]

Lockdown gave both those chaps the chance to flex their Who writing muscles, and surprised them both I think.

 

[jaime]

Am sort of hoping Gareth Roberts comes back, which is borderline heresy.

 

[StCoop]

Am sort of hoping Gareth Roberts comes back, which is borderline heresy.

There's more chance of Pip and Jane Baker crawling out of their graves to point and laugh at Chibnall about everything he said to them back in the 1980s.

 

[Marc]

On most days the tardis Disney work.

(Does that work outside the Glasgow accent?) lol

Nah but if you hear in Jamie McCrimmon's voice it's spot on

 

[jaime]

There's more chance of Pip and Jane Baker crawling out of their graves to point and laugh at Chibnall about everything he said to them back in the 1980s.

I didn’t know they had passed. But I hope they are having a good laugh, and have found the Transetherial Precipitation Electrostatic Discharge Trigger, and use it with judicious perspicuousness at the juncture of their most efficacious moment.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^That's easy for you to say.

 

[jaime]

^^^That's easy for you to say.

And twice on Sundays.