No one's expecting him to give specific details but he used to be an expert at hyping things up without really saying anything.
Spoilers Russell T. Davies' Second Turn as Doctor Who Showrunner
How does one "hype" an episode that won't air for seven months and hasn't even started filming yet? (And may not until the fall?)
You put “Introducing [THE MOST FAMOUS ACTOR OF ALL TIME] as THE DOCTOR” in the biggest letters that will fit on the screen.
True, true. It's not like he hyped up the 60th Anniversary episodes EIGHTEEN MONTHS in advance or anything.
"We start shooting in a few months, it's going to be amazing." So difficult!
Tom Cruise IS the Doctor (well he'd be good at the running parts)
Hi Tom, some of the previous actors have found the running and the physical stuff a bit demanding, do you think you’ll be okay with it?
Tom stares, shakes head as seen in Oblivion gif: What?
"...and I'm the first openly Scottish host." 
lol maybe tom cruise did play the doctor on some of the alternate earths in the multiverse
"Millions of you watched me on Sex Education. About twelve of you watched me on Doctor Who."
…Because they were filmed EIGHTEEN MONTHS in advance, so he had something to talk about. I know having no news is a bummer by comparison.
It’s cute, and maybe vaguely defensible if you’re considering global audience. But because Netflix shows are included in UK ratings data, we know that the highest-rated episode of Sex Education’s fourth and final series from 2023 had about as many UK viewers in its first week of release as the lowest-rated episode across the two Fifteenth Doctor series from 2024 and 2025. Mind you, almost no one is watching SNL UK itself, and Gatwa’s episode was the least-watched to date, so “millions of you” itself is rather wishful."Millions of you watched me on Sex Education. About twelve of you watched me on Doctor Who."
"Millions of you watched me on Sex Education. About twelve of you watched me on Doctor Who."
lol he went from eric on sex education to the 14th doctor on doctor who 2023
Fifteenth Doctor. Fourteenth was Tennant 2.0.
He sent me a message a few months ago, since I originated the thread. (I was at the mechanic getting my car inspected the day the news about RTD dropped way back then, and posted from the waiting room...) I kinda left it on read, unfortunately; I didn't have the mental space to deal.
I think after a year, even Premium members can't change the thread title. That was something I ran into awhile ago.
It's helpful to think of the Christmas Special as being in "Development Hell." There have been meetings, there was an announcement, people want to make this, people with the money want to do this, people aren't under contract, there's absolutely nothing to talk about. David Yates' Doctor Who film was in exactly this state; he would get asked about it and say absolutely nothing because there was nothing to say. At some point, more likely than not, this will emerge from Development Hell, it will be in production, there will be people under contract in front of and behind the camera, and Rusty will have lots of things to say.
My hunch is this. If it is absolutely vital to Rusty and the Beeb that the special star Billie Piper and she's not available in a window that makes filming for a Christmas special possible, then they will film when she is available, and it will be maybe an Easter Special. Some will be disappointed. But things happen when they happen, and the disappointed will still watch because it's Doctor Who.
I suspect the opposite. Given that Piper is highly unlikely to be able to commit to being the 16th Doctor I suspect RTD will rework whatever he's written to accommodate someone else. I don't see the point in waiting six months for Piper if she's just going to be the Doctor for 45 minutes.
9 was supposed to be a soft reboot, but over just a couple of years they started pulling in all sorts of stuff from the classics.
Honestly at this point, make the show accessible to a new audience, keep any classic who to an occasional background easter egg, make anything 2005-2023 to 'medium background' and go back to what makes DW work on TV.
And absolutely no more Mavity or Pantheon or whatever.
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