{"id":980635,"date":"2025-10-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980635"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:35:04","slug":"former-doctor-who-writer-proclaims-shows-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/former-doctor-who-writer-proclaims-shows-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Doctor Who Writer Bleakly Proclaims the Show&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Being a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/doctor-who\/\">Doctor Who<\/a> <\/em>fan is not for the weak. From a combative, often pessimistic fandom to one of the wildest rumor mills in all of entertainment, let\u2019s just say that Whovians generally have to deal with a <em>lot<\/em>. The situation feels even more fraught than normal these days, with the general state of the franchise in such flux. The series\u2019s most recent season ended fairly abruptly, with Fifteenth Doctor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/doctor-who-farewell-to-the-fifteenth-doctor\/\">Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s regeneration<\/a> and the surprise reveal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/who-is-that-big-returning-doctor-who-star-playing\/\">former companion Billie Piper<\/a> in a role that <em>look<\/em>s like it might be (but almost certainly <em>isn\u2019t)<\/em> his successor. Spinoff <em>The War Between the Land and the Sea<\/em> is slated to air next year, but it still doesn\u2019t have a premiere date, and its Sea Devil-focused premise isn\u2019t something that much of the fandom is all that excited about. (Forgive me, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/doctor-who-relationship-finally-become-canon\/\">Kate Lethbridge-Stewart<\/a>, I still love you.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worst of all, there\u2019s no real sense of direction when it comes to what\u2019s next for the flagship series. No new Doctor has yet been announced \u2014 don\u2019t forget Piper\u2019s mysterious character wasn\u2019t introduced in the finale\u2019s credits as Sixteen \u2014 and Disney+ is still dragging its feet about whether the streamer will continue to be involved with the show at all. (Something that\u2019s undoubtedly slowing down any larger decisions about its future.) It\u2019s rough out there, and suddenly <em>everyone<\/em> who has even the slightest connection with the show is suddenly being asked for their thoughts on everything that\u2019s happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Robert Shearman has written multiple Big Finish audio dramas and several <em>Doctor Who <\/em>novels based on those stories, which feature the adventures of the Sixth and Eighth Doctors. But he\u2019s probably best known for penning the season 1 episode \u201cDalek\u201d starring Christopher Eccleston, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Speaking to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doctorwhomagazine.com\/doctor-who-magazine\/doctor-who-magazine-622\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doctor Who Magazine<\/a><\/em> about the history and inspiration behind the episode, Shearman<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/doctor-who-robert-shearman-bleak-future-newsupdate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> also reflected<\/a> on his own relationship with the series and his (fairly blunt) thoughts on its future. Spoiler alert: He pulls no punches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI go through phases; I have a real push\/pull thing with the show,\u201d he said. &#8220;At the moment, I&#8217;m in a &#8216;pull\u2019 phase. It&#8217;s weird because the show is probably as dead as we&#8217;ve ever known it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Shearman, it\u2019s not just the lack of a season 16 renewal, but an established successor to Gatwa\u2019s Doctor that makes the franchise feel so directionless. Not just in terms of the flagship series but also the ancillary materials that surround it, such as the novels and audio dramas that expand the world of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter 1989, we had, for years, a current Doctor. Now, everything that is ever going to be produced in <em>Doctor Who<\/em> terms is going to feel retrogressive,\u201d he said \u201cAt least with the New Adventures and then the BBC Books, you thought, &#8216;It&#8217;s the current Doctor \u2013 McCoy or McGann&#8217;. No one&#8217;s going to start writing Doctor Who books with a Billie Piper Doctor, because no one knows what that means. In a funny way, the closing moments of &#8216;The Reality War&#8217; seem to put a full stop on things. We didn&#8217;t have that before.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be fair, Shearman\u2019s view regarding the show\u2019s future is certainly one of the most negative we\u2019ve seen since the finale aired earlier this year. And the BBC itself has pushed back against such catastrophizing, insisting that the broadcaster is <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/doctor-who-bbc-committed-disney-1236493929\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">firmly committed to the series<\/a>, with or without Disney\u2019s involvement. But it\u2019s definitely uncomfortable for fans to read such dire predictions, many of which insist we\u2019re about to endure another indeterminate hiatus like that which followed the Seventh Doctor episode \u201cSurvival\u201d rather than the outright cancellation that followed the poorly received Eighth Doctor movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while we still don\u2019t know any actual facts about the series\u2019s status \u2014 or plan to return \u2014 it\u2019s hard to fully ignore such worries. But since its inception, <em>Doctor Who<\/em> has always been a franchise grounded in hope. 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