Re: Doctor Who Into 2026

On 2025-03-06 14:55:50 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Theory11 wrote:
 

I am hearing that following Ncuti Gatwa's departure from the
show Doctor Who is to continue next year with three or four
special episodes featuring David Tennant as The Doctor. These
special episodes will follow on from the events in the War
Between the Land and the Sea spin-off series due to air later
this year on D+. The 14th Doctor's companion for these special
episodes will be Rose Noble, played by Yasmin Finney. Bad Wolf
TV are hoping that Catherine Tate will reprise her role as
Donna Noble in some of the episodes.
 Currently only three Doctor Who specials are pencilled in for
2026; Easter, Halloween & Xmas. If extra funding comes through
from D+ - or another partner - a fourth special episode could
be added to the schedule. Possibly New Years Eve/Day. There
will be no series three next year. The special episodes are to
fill the gap and are being viewed within the BBC as a better
option than putting the show on hiatus with all the negative
publicity that would then en-sue for one of its flag-ship
television programmes.
 It is also rumoured that Russell T Davies will leave the show
after the specials.

 That's the problem when there's an info vacuum of any sort with
the wall-to-wall information society that we have these days...
it just enables the rumour mills to go into overdrive. Some
rumours will be right, some will be wrong. But with the variety
of info out there they can't ALL be right!
 Normally the BBC are in your face with PR stuff about their big
shows. Not knowing what the situation with "Doctor Who" is after
S15/S2 - which premieres in five weeks time - just enables the
YouTube brigade to do their thing. We have no right to know
anything, but in 2025 it is strange that we know so little about
the show's future.

It's extremely rare for any business to announce what their future plans are until they are ready to do so, which is usually not long before the product / service is ready to launch. If they did, every competitior out there would try to get in earlier to get the customers. Plus, with constant changes in the world, announced plans may well have to be altered or cancelled, which then annoys the customers - Apple, for example, learnt this the hard way by announcing their wireless power mat ... which was delayed and then cancelled.
Occasionally you do get a brief report, for example "Call the Midwife" being renewed for 2025 and 2026, but no other information about it. Most shows only work on a basis of the next season or two. Very few have commitments for more than that.
Then of course there are the rumours that Disney isn't happy and is waiting to see how well or not this new season does before making any decision, which then means the BBC can't make a decision / announcement. Just one more issue to add to the pile of problams with the Disney agreement.

My source is not God - usually she is fairly reliable though.

 No smoke without fire and all that...