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Former Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman has offered a candid take on the current state of the show, calling it \u201cas dead as we\u2019ve ever known it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking in Doctor Who Magazine<\/a> issue 622, Shearman, best known to fans for penning the acclaimed 2005 episode \u201cDalek\u201d, opened up about his complicated relationship with the show.<\/p>\n \u201cI go through phases, I have a real push\/pull thing with the show,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the moment I\u2019m in a \u2018pull\u2019 phase. It\u2019s weird because the show is probably as dead as we\u2019ve ever known it.\u201d<\/p>\n Shearman went on to explain that, unlike earlier periods of the show\u2019s history, he feels there is now a sense of finality surrounding Doctor Who and its expanded universe.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter 1989 we had, for years, a current Doctor,\u201d he said. \u201cNow, everything that is ever going to be produced in Doctor Who terms is going to feel retrogressive. At least with the New Adventures and then the BBC Books you thought, \u2018It\u2019s the current Doctor \u2013 McCoy or McGann\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cNo one\u2019s going to start writing Doctor Who books with a Billie Piper Doctor, because no one knows what that means. In a funny way, the closing moments of \u2018The Reality War\u2019 seem to put a full stop on things. We didn\u2019t have that before.\u201d<\/p>\n Series 15 concluded at the end of May 2025, with Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s Fifteenth Doctor regenerating in a surprise scene<\/a> featuring Billie Piper. Since then, the future of the show has remained in limbo.<\/p>\n