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Former Doctor Who showrunner expects his stories to be “ignored and contradicted”

By Ariba Bhuvad

JACOB JAVITS CENTER, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2018/10/07: Chris Chibnall attends photocall for Doctor WHO new season during New York Comic Con at Jacob Javits Center. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
JACOB JAVITS CENTER, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2018/10/07: Chris Chibnall attends photocall for Doctor WHO new season during New York Comic Con at Jacob Javits Center. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) /
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Former Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall has some thoughts about the next chapter of the beloved sci-fi series. He’s officially passed the baton on to Russell T Davies, who was also the guy who brought Doctor Who back in the first place in 2005.

Chibnall realizes that with Davies back in charge, the Doctor Who stories he told with Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor may be ignored or contradicted. But Chibnall isn’t salty; he knows this is the nature of Doctor Who, which is forever changing and morphing into something new.

Chibnall opened up about this on the Reality Bomb podcast. “I think you have to be very OK with – you do your work on the show during your time and the moment you step away, the moment you stop, then nothing is in your hands and other people will come in, will contradict it, will change it, will alter it, and that is more than OK,” he said.

"It would be very arrogant of me to sit here and go, ‘What I really hope is they’re going to expand the story into this and that and the other’, given that I have taken the works of others and turned it inside out and questioned it and re-moulded some of the answers. I have nothing to add, no expectations. I would imagine it will be ignored, contradicted, doubled back on, it could be anything. That’s OK! That’s the incredible thing about Doctor Who."

Former showrunner Chris Chibnall on the future of Doctor Who

I love that attitude! And he’s absolutely right; in the world of Doctor Who, nothing ever remains stagnant. With each new Doctor and showrunner, the world is turned on its head, and that is exactly why the fans love it so much.

The next chapter of Doctor Who stands to be one of the most exciting in a while; it starts with David Tennant returning before he passes the baton onto Ncuti Gatwa. We’ll find out what the team has in store when the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials air later this year.

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