I Can't Believe Doctor Who Is Back So Soon

The BBC has coming announced Doctor Who will return for a Christmas Special successful 2026, pinch news of nan adjacent bid to beryllium revealed “in owed course.” The broadcaster says nan typical will beryllium written by existent executive shaper Russell T. Davies, putting to remainder much than a year’s worthy of doubt.

For nan unaware, Doctor Who has been a champion successful nan BBC schedules since its 2005 revival, but nan BBC felt it couldn’t prolong nan show’s fund alone. In 2022, it collaborated pinch Disney, which bankrolled nan show successful speech for nan correct to watercourse it globally connected Disney+.

The Disney woody lasted for 2 years, positive nan yet-to-be-broadcast spin-off The War Between The Land And The Sea. Unfortunately, nan revived bid was not nan world-swallowing deed its backers were hoping for, and location were large mobility marks astir nan show’s future.

Behind nan scenes rumors suggested an unhappy set, pinch nan companion domiciled recast conscionable weeks earlier accumulation began connected nan 2nd season. With nan show’s destiny uncertain, nan series’ long-running storyline was tweaked and re-shot beyond nan constituent of incoherence arsenic prima Ncuti Gatwa opted to leave.

Since then, much specifications astir nan series' primitively planned conclusion person leaked out, arsenic reported by Den of Geek, validating nan stories of disharmony. And since then, galore figures connected to nan show person claimed that nan bid was dormant successful nan h2o arsenic nan BBC lacks nan costs to decently spend it.

The news of a caller typical and caller play will, naturally, provoke plentifulness much questions arsenic to really nan BBC will beryllium capable to support nan show going, and really Davies will beryllium capable to un-tangle nan knot he hastily tied astatine nan conclusion of "The Reality War."