Russell T Davies Has Began Pondering About His Physician Who Successor

Ncuti Gatwa’s second season because the Fifteenth Physician will get underway April 12, however Physician Who showrunner Russell T Davies has already began to suppose past that. And this time, it’s in refreshing distinction to current rumors (denied by the BBC) that the present might not return if it doesn’t ship strong ratings—although it’s nonetheless unhappy to ponder for Davies followers, as a result of it includes who’ll take up the showrunner mantle after he leaves.

As reported by Radio Times and CBR, Davies was a current visitor on David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, hosted by the Tenth and Fourteenth Physician himself—a longtime collaborator with Davies, who showran Physician Who from 2005-2010 (encompassing the Tenth Physician) and returned to the job in 2023 (encompassing the Fourteenth Physician). Although the 2 friends joked that Davies’ second run shall be his final, with positively no third on the horizon, additionally they talked about what’s going to occur when Davies strikes on from the present.

“I might want to decelerate sooner or later,” he admitted. “That’ll come.” Nonetheless, as a confirmed fan and devoted reader of Physician Who Journal, “I’ll by no means put Physician Who down utterly.”

Close to a successor, he mentioned, “Final time it was Steven Moffat [who replaced me], that wasn’t even a day’s work, it was like, ‘Proper, off you go!’”

Other than Moffat, who held the publish from 2010-2017, there’s solely been one different showrunner since Physician Who‘s return: Chris Chibnall, who oversaw the run of Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Physician from 2018-2022.

Davies’ substitute, even with none hypothesis as to who it could be, is on his thoughts. “There’s fascinated with that, there’s conversations about that, however it’s laborious. It’s a difficult one,” he mentioned. “However [my replacement] higher exist… think about, I’m lifeless on the desk. The cliché would kill me! Oh my god.” (He additionally jokingly fan-cast Tim Robbins to play him in his biopic, if that ever occurs.)

Physician Who returns to Disney+ and the BBC (relying what a part of the world you reside in) April 12; up to now, there’s no phrase on subsequent seasons or perhaps a particular Christmas episode, as is custom, for 2025.

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