Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro

It's (not) the end, but the moment has been prepared for! Well, not as such but a press release from the BBC confirms what we long suspected: there will not be a Christmas special nor were plans for one ever seriously pursued. Sad news to be sure, but we've cobbled together industry and wider fan reaction along with our own lengthy takes tinged with what we'd like to think is both optimism and realism. More importantly, we have former Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury to give us his rather more informed take on the whole situation. Brave Heart, Tegan, after all somewhere the tea is getting cold. 
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An update on the future of Doctor Who
'Doctor Who' Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That's Failing To Spark Enthusiasm Among Producers
Russell T Davies on Instagram: "For the record, there was no script"
Russell T Davies: Doctor Who hasn't been cancelled
Bad Wolf Studios post on Instagram
Steven Moffat on the Doctor Who news
Andy Pryor also leaving Doctor Who
Variety: 'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Not Going Forward as Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf Exit Series
'Doctor Who' Christmas Special Canceled, As Russell T Davies & Bad Wolf Exit BBC Sci-Fi Series
Vinay Patel on the stress of making Doctor Who
BBC tendering process explained
Doctor Who's Billie Piper Stunt Was Never Going to Pay Off by Kyle Anderson
Doctor Who premiered on AMC+ in the US only
Recovered: Doctor Who Special with Film Is Fabulous in Leicester Aug 15
The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television by Russell T Davies due Oct 8
Big Finish: Planet Krynoid – Survivors released
Big Finish: The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion due Aug 2026
Big Finish: The Second Doctor Adventures: The Haunted Windmill due August 2026
Nicola Bryant did the narration for The Ultimate Evil
Lifelong Doctor Who collection fetches £49,000
Sir Sherlock – The Sickle and the Sea Kickstarter, fully funded in less than a day
Michael Keating obituary by Toby Hadoke
Gene Shalit died
Interview:
Tom Spilsbury

The rumours and nonsense continue to bubble up from the internet swamps this week with claims of the Christmas Special shot in a minimal style, a fake news release to irritate us all, and actual footage of RTD saying there will be a BBC press release in a week or two. The Three Who Rule dig deep and are quite skeptical of all this torpor (other than RTD's almost certainly correct claim) as well the usual Big Finish and Dalek 63-88 updates and Part the Second of our Classic Series Commentary for Spearhead from Space!
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RTD says to expect a press release about Doctor Who in the next couple weeks
"BBC Announces Doctor Who Christmas Special to Mark End of an Era" fake press release
The Doctor Who Gossip No One Is Talking About – Because No One Knows About It
Dalek 63-88: Why The Daleks' Master Plan Makes No Sense – The Galactic Warfare Problem
Big Finish Day 2027 will be April 17, 2027
Big Finish: The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Lethal Progress released
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Eighth Doctor Adventures: New Pathways due Nov 2026
Big Finish: The Death and Life of River Song: River and Rory due Jan 2027
Anthony Stewart Head 1954-2026
Commentary:
Spearhead from Space, Episode 2

Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD's hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won't be filming anything this year, so…whither Doctor Who Christmas Special? We get after it! We also look into the spectacular looking 4K release of the 1996 TV Movie, our thoughts on the Mandolorian and Grogu, the usual Big Finish Zaprudering, and an interview with Sophie Aldred, Paul Cornell and author Adrian Tchaikovsky and their involvement in the Salvation's Child graphic novel! Space Comics!
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Radio Times report on supposed upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special
Russell T Davies on LBC: "I'm not filming anything until 2027"
Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann on the Whoniverse Show
Jonathan Helm on the Doctor Who TV Movie pre-titles sequence
Doctor Who TV Movie 4K review
Doctor Who Magazine 630 released
Doctor Who (1963-1996) coming to Britbox in Australia in June
Doctor Who Adventures: Save the Humans! due Aug 18
Cybertropolis The Art & Times of the Cybermen from Andrew Skilleter due autumn 2026
Big Finish: Torchwood: Fare Well released
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers due July 2026
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident due July 2026
Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers due October 2026
Paradise Towers: Unalive the Multiverse Kickstarter from Cutaway Comics
Marcia Lucas passes away
Interview:
Salvation's Child graphic novel
Paul Cornell
Sophie Aldred
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Doctor Who is back! At least in the United States, by way of AMC+ which will be the exclusive streaming home of Doctor Who (2005-2022). No word if it'll show up on AMC+ Canada, which does in fact exist, but we're used to being the forgotten child of media. Plus we have more BFI and Big Finish news, a nice little BF tribute to Gareth David-Lloyd, and we travel back to the Jodie Whittaker era with a Miniscope examining the directing work of Lee Haven Jones on Spyfall Part Two, Orphan 55, and Revolution of the Daleks! 
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AMC+ Acquires exclusive US streaming rights to Doctor Who (2005-2022)
Doctor Who: Projections in Time – Black & White & Silver at Riverside Studios, sold out
BFI screening of The TV Movie delayed to May 17
Man and Cyberman: Memoirs of a Cyberleader by David Banks due Sep 5
Doctor Who Magazine Doctor Who: The Time Museum – The Story of Doctor Who in 100 Objects due Jun 11
Big Finish Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: Aegis released
Big Finish – Dark Gallifrey: The Meddling Monks – Part Two available now
Big Finish Interview with Gareth David-Lloyd as Torchwood and Ianto's Shrine wind down
The Ultimate Evil: 6th Doctor Novelisation Audio CD – Unabridged due Sep 3
Jill Curzon died
Miniscope:
Lee Haven Jones
Spyfall Part Two
Orphan 55
Revolution of the Daleks