Doctor Who: Paying the Piper

So what pray tell is next for Doctor Who?

The BBC apologized (kind of/sort of) for spoiling that Ncute Gatwa regenerates into Billie Piper. Which happened a month ago!

Apparently there are still some people who haven't watched the show?

Maybe that's on them but the spoiler was in a headline so yeah, maybe the BBC could've done better with that.

Well, no avoiding it now:  Billie Piper is on the cover of the next Doctor Who Magazine to tell us....

...what, exactly?  

As the cover says "Billie Piper Is the Doctor?"

Note the question mark.  

Whatever is supposed to be the answer to the question, "Who is Billie Piper supposed to be?", is it possible we may never know the answer?

To date, the BBC has not said one word about the fate of the show. 

While there has been no official announcement, the general consensus is that Disney+ is done with Doctor Who.

And speaking of Doctor Who Magazine, Russell T Davies is bringing his regular column to an end.  With RTD also being outside the loop with no knowledge of the show's future, he has nothing to write about.

Well, that can't be good. 

There are rumors (and only rumors) that the BBC is circling around a new deal with another streamer.  

HBO Max would seem a likely candidate since they already have the entire modern era Doctor Who catalog from 2005 6o 2022 plus Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood.  

But I highly distrust having Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav anywhere near new episodes of this franchise.  

And HBO Max cancelled Gentleman Jack after only 2 seasons and don't think I've gotten over that!  

There's also the persistent rumor that the BBC wants David Tennant back again if Doctor Who does have any kind of future. 

OK, big fan of David Tennant in almost anything but come on! How many times can we go back to that well? 

Even if Doctor Who does have a future, we need to accept that it's a future delayed. Even if the BBC and some streamer with a TARDIS full of cash made a deal tomorrow, it's gonna be a year or more before we see any new episodes.  

Whovians will need to pay the piper in the form of time and patience.

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Another post coming up later today as we say farewell to another kind of doctor. 

And next Sunday it's another edition of Doctor Who Is Classic!