With Doctor Who's Future Still Uncertain, Showrunner Russell T Davies Says 'I Don't Own It, It's Not Mine'

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has reflected connected his enactment moving the BBC's flagship sci-fi show, and said that yet his "heart" was fondest for the bid helium had personally created.

Speaking portion promoting his caller TV play Tip Toe, Davies mentioned his clip successful complaint of Doctor Who — by acold his most-watched work, and the longest helium has dedicated to immoderate azygous task — but suggested that his vocation would alternatively beryllium remembered for his ain creations.

"I emotion Doctor Who, but I don't ain it," Davies told The Big Issue, via Deadline. "It's not mine. So successful the end, my bosom volition ever beryllium with the things that I own."

"It is the strongest happening I've written," Davies continued, discussing Tip Toe, which helium has described arsenic a premix of his bid Queer arsenic Folk, and Years and Years. "I bash judge Queer As Folk, Cucumber, It's a Sin and Tip Toe are the ones that volition beryllium connected my gravestone."

Davies has remained tight-lipped implicit the aboriginal of Doctor Who and his ain relation arsenic showrunner implicit the past fewer months, aft antecedently signing disconnected from his regular file wrong Doctor Who Magazine connected a distinctly gloomy note.

"We don't cognize what's happening yet," Davies admitted backmost successful June, "and portion everyone works that out, I'll instrumentality a intermission connected this page... Hopefully, we'll person quality soon."

The accumulation hiatus follows a tumultuous mates of years for Doctor Who with Russell T Davies backmost astatine the helm, pursuing his archetypal tenure during the show's David Tennant-led heyday.

Davies' astir caller play reportedly delivered the worst viewing figures of the show's modern era, down year-on-year from Doctor Who prima Ncuti Gatwa's archetypal tally of episodes successful 2024, which itself was little than the series' erstwhile epoch featuring Jodie Whittaker.

Criticism of the series' penning and communicative arcs has persisted, with adjacent Doctor Who histrion and writer Mark Gatiss precocious suggesting the amusement was successful request of a rest.

And arsenic for the Doctor themselves, the bid was seemingly near without a caller imperishable inhabitant of the TARDIS, aft Gatwa departed successful a reshot ending to the season, and Billie Piper was drafted successful arsenic an unexplained stand-in.

Addressing the aboriginal of the amusement with chap fans, erstwhile Doctor Who Magazine exertion Tom Spilsbury precocious said viewers should "adjust their expectations" for the series' contiguous future, arsenic the hold for authoritative quality connected the series' Disney co-funding woody renewal drags on. With a perchance lengthy hunt for a caller accumulation spouse connected the cards should Disney so nary longer beryllium connected board, Doctor Who could stay off-air for the remainder of the decade, Spilsbury wrote.

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