'Doctor Who' Christmas Special is cancelled as Russell T. Davies departs the show: What does this mean for the future of Doctor Who?
Davis, is departing alongside his production company Bad Wolf.The cancellation of the special, a mostly annual release since "Doctor Who" returned to the airwaves in 2005, is definitely bad news, but, according to Davies, it was actually planned all along.In his post on Instagram saying farewell to the franchise again (he ran the show from 2005 to 2010 and then again from 2023 to now), he reveals that the holiday special was actually never going to happen and that it was all a facade as the BBC decided what they were going to do with the franchise.“There won’t be a Christmas Special - we only cooked that up to guarantee a future when no one knew what would happen, but now we do know, there’s no need for it. You’ll have to wait a bit longer for new "Doctor Who"… but you’ll be waiting for MORE "Doctor Who" than a one-off. So it’s worth it! For the record: there was no script, I never wrote it, and no actor was ever approached to play the next Doctor. You may disagree; fine, sit in that chair and wait to be proved right. You’ll wait a lonnng time,” he said.Why they had to cook up a lie about a Christmas special to guarantee the future of a show that the BBC still holds as a cornerstone of its content isn’t too clear, but the entertainment industry is weird. The real question is, what will come next?What is next for "Doctor Who"?
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