{"id":4769,"date":"2025-08-12T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russell-t-davies-wants-you-to-stop-asking-him-if-doctor-who-is-dead-or-not\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T23:59:13","slug":"russell-t-davies-wants-you-to-stop-asking-him-if-doctor-who-is-dead-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russell-t-davies-wants-you-to-stop-asking-him-if-doctor-who-is-dead-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell T Davies Wants You to Stop Asking Him If \u2018Doctor Who\u2019 Is Dead or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>We can officially add Russell T Davies to the list of creative people who&rsquo;ve become irritated with fans wanting updates on a particular project they&rsquo;re inextricably linked to. Think George R.R. Martin and <em>The Winds of Winter<\/em>, or James Gunn and <em>The Batman Part II<\/em>. Now, the <em>Doctor Who<\/em> showrunner from 2005-2010 and again since 2023 would like you to stop asking him <em>Doctor Who<\/em> questions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"not-prose my-8 -mx-4 xs:max-w-xs xs:mx-auto\"><\/div>\n<p>No doubt those queries have only gotten more intense thanks to the utter lack of updates about the show&rsquo;s future. Ncuti Gatwa&rsquo;s run as the character ended when the Fifteenth Doctor regenerated&mdash;confusingly&mdash;at the end of May, and fans still have no idea what&rsquo;s coming next, if at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing to report, nothing&rsquo;s happening. You&rsquo;ll know when you know, when we know. I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; Davies said on the <em>Pilot TV<\/em> podcast this week (via Doctor Who TV).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He also pointed out, &ldquo;Conversations are between the BBC and Disney. I don&rsquo;t work for either of them. I work for Bad Wolf, so I&rsquo;m not part of those rooms. So I literally don&rsquo;t know. And even people I work with every day, so they couldn&rsquo;t know what&rsquo;s really going on. I&rsquo;m going, &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t know.&rsquo; I really don&rsquo;t know.<em>&ldquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In another recent interview, this time with the Big Issue magazine (via Deadline), he brought up the fact that even though he&rsquo;s devoted a lot of his career to <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, that&rsquo;s not <em>all<\/em> he&rsquo;s done. &ldquo;I love&nbsp;<i>Doctor Who<\/i>, but I don&rsquo;t own it. It&rsquo;s not mine. So in the end, my heart will always be with the things that I own,&rdquo; including shows he created himself like <em>Queer as Folk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine did ask him about the future of <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, because frankly, <em>people are dying to know<\/em>. He gave a one-word answer: &ldquo;Behave!&rdquo; That&rsquo;s not quite Gunn telling <em>Batman Part II<\/em> speculators to &ldquo;Get off Matt [Reeves]&rsquo; nuts,&rdquo; but we may escalate there soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what&rsquo;s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>Russell T Davies Wants You to Stop Asking Him If &lsquo;Doctor Who&rsquo; Is Dead or Not<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can officially add Russell T Davies to the list of creative people who&rsquo;ve become irritated with fans wanting updates on a particular project they&rsquo;re inextricably linked to. Think George R.R. Martin and The Winds of Winter, or James Gunn and The Batman Part II. Now, the Doctor Who showrunner from 2005-2010 and again since&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russell-t-davies-wants-you-to-stop-asking-him-if-doctor-who-is-dead-or-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Russell T Davies Wants You to Stop Asking Him If \u2018Doctor Who\u2019 Is Dead or Not&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}