{"id":472558,"date":"2026-06-11T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472558\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:09:08","slug":"doctor-who-future-uncertain-as-bbc-scraps-christmas-special-and-showrunner-exits-stuff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472558\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Doctor Who&#039; future uncertain as BBC scraps Christmas special and showrunner exits &#8211; Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiowFBVV95cUxOWEFhZGZIOGpIbllJbU1kR1RSeW5Zd3Q5N2RIVi13VWdpazBtazNNZGpBcFdHdVRzTnRhcDBtdzlXN3NiTVVQUHhudkFkRUwySVlFLXVWclQ2MHRjbFBYbkkwdU1ibkpkZTdfb0pkd3RjZFdXOUh6Y2c4V0JsVVA4N0tTdEpXTk5WQWZBbDBOQ2N5cVI1Z1dnOWNia2ZkcnM1bUlr?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Doctor Who&#8217; future uncertain as BBC scraps Christmas special and showrunner exits<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxOTUxQME91ckZub1VCZWo1a3RUdXNjUkdZOG85bkY0aXdpX0gyRWUzaTJzUklqdHRVWjlWMlFRaHZhekRNcUhiMkZXdjBncjdyLU84OEY3Q1g0LURNLU9PNlcyc2R6WUFKQzFEbkdPOUtMQklvRmdFOF9heDBsVEpHb3IyRDVEWFpZanlEV1NONmV0emttNDRvVHdUQ0Q2VzRPcW9DTExNMVE3RE9fTHJxN2tJdGV1X1h4?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018A poisoned chalice\u2019: will Doctor Who survive Russell T Davies\u2019s exit?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE0xZHMwUXlnN0t4c0htX21RZ0ViODBPekdsMGdDZVhJalktOVE3Ti0wQXFYRjc4Mjg1YVhMVlpHdEdwbFdYcU8tVWRQRWlkU1NxU01nWVdzVGtMRnI3cjBENEg0X2lPZHZoNTVTanJhdk0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Update on plans for the future of Doctor Who<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMidkFVX3lxTE1lN0NidXlqa0tEMW9IdS0xYUlCYXhMQkFoS1JWVkozd0txTzdmZ0x4ODVldWl3NjJaUndrUUxhZ1UwT1JyS0Q0OXVJdXhhLW5ONUIwajdTQk9tY2gxOTVDZTZEbERTdHI2eUZEUmdNN041TVY4U3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How the BBC destroyed Doctor Who<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE9BbkNad0R0dEdZZkZCbjNjaHVFMVlUc2s0aVNsRFhtVUpyT21DdG9DeEJrUUJqdjR6N0hYbUt0RWRzTmZvc0Y1ekhST2xHZWhwZWhmN0dHODhsdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC cancels Doctor Who Christmas special and Russell T Davies announces exit<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Doctor Who&#8217; future uncertain as BBC scraps Christmas special and showrunner exits&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff\u2018A poisoned chalice\u2019: will Doctor Who survive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,43,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-472558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}