'Here Comes the Future': RTD2's Last Moves 🥀 Doctor Who Discussion Podcast

After its latest 'death', what is the future of Doctor Who? We discuss the collapse of RTD's streaming 'empire', leak culture, the lost RTD2 Series 3, retellings and narrativisations, cancellation scars, fan custodianship of the show, RTD's new memoir, & much more as we trace the show's mid-2020s 'deaths' and ask what comes next. Neo, Ingiga, Tyler, and Virgil discuss the mid-2020s misadventures of Doctor Who, the cancellation of RTD2, the show being put out to tender, and RTD's new memoir The Queerest of Folk. Listen to us on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HG4adm... Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast... Neo can also be found at   / neo_whocares   Ingiga runs a blog, over at https://gigawho.wordpress.com Tyler's other appearances on the channel can be found here https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/tag/... https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/2026... #doctorwho #russelltdavies #thequeerestoffolk TIMECODES: 0:00:00 Intro & framing the two discussions 0:03:43 Discussion #1: grieving Doctor Who 0:09:51 Christmas cancelled; 'Bafflers, Winternox, Village' 0:16:24 Imagining the Christmas special that never was 0:25:54 Psychic damage: the 1989 cancellation 0:32:39 Damaged Goods & being put out to tender 0:38:09 Custodianship & the Fitzroy Lot 0:46:21 Commercialising the BBC 0:50:48 RTD2's wasted talent 0:54:05 RTD2 as franchise & corporate fatigue 0:57:26 Differing showrunner skills 1:00:38 Queerness & 15's writing 1:04:47 COVID, 'I'm needed' & the empire dream 1:11:04 The Chibnall exit & the broken ending debate 1:19:51 The empire's rise & collapse: Ncuti, iPlayer, the budget 1:27:58 Renewal delayed; CBeebies & the 2026 Christmas 1:30:49 Very fine people: RTD, Shearman, Jane Tranter 1:33:54 The 26-episode order & hubris 1:41:09 The Christmas cancellation press release 1:45:46 RTD's catty farewell: 'Here comes the future, vworp vworp' 1:51:06 Flaws in a 'second' Wilderness 1:57:50 What's worth keeping, & hope for new hands 2:04:58 Discussion #2: 'in it to win it' 2:09:07 Reading the tender document 2:13:25 Potential showrunners: Mercurio, McTighe, Morrison/Wheatley 2:26:31 Dream showrunners & the genre question 2:30:02 TARDIS Crew: the CBeebies show 2:39:45 A 2026 Christmas special after all 2:42:06 'The Queerest of Folk': first impressions 2:45:34 The Winternox confession 2:49:48 'Supersizing Doctor Who': RTD's excuses for the flop 2:52:39 The botched launch: 60th, Church & Space Babies 2:56:18 RTD's exit & the leaks obsession 3:11:30 The lost Series 3 3:17:24 The Billie Piper regeneration & the 'seven words' 3:24:05 Narrativising the truth 3:28:03 'The Second Coming' & interfering with the imagery 3:32:24 Reverting to the mean: which way will the next era point? 3:42:17 RTD's future 'War Between' ideas 3:48:41 A shared universe & 'Digger-ification' 3:51:24 Final verdict: was RTD2 worthwhile? 3:56:19 Ain't No Season Three SOURCES: Full source list at https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/2026...