{"id":440643,"date":"2026-02-23T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440643\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:54:09","slug":"multiple-doctor-who-2026-endings-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440643\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple “Doctor Who” 2026 Endings Planned?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>BBC, Disney+<\/p>\n

As previously reported, the future of \u201cDoctor Who\u201d remains in limbo. Disney\u2019s attempt to bring the franchise to a wider global audience saw the budget increase, but it failed to find an audience in the UK or on the Disney+ service internationally.<\/p>\n

The show ended its run with Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s The Doctor regenerating into a new The Doctor with the face of prior companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper). The mystery of that will be dealt with in an upcoming Christmas special on the BBC coming this year written by showrunner Russell T. Davies.<\/p>\n

After that, no one knows what\u2019s coming beyond Disney no longer being involved. It\u2019s widely suspected this special will serve as Davies\u2019 swan song with the franchise, which will take a break before a new creative team comes on board to work on a tighter budget and overhaul it.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not set in stone either. Speaking with Half the Picture<\/a>, the show\u2019s long-running composer Murray Gold indicates that several variations of the special are being made in readiness for various contingencies:<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that Russell\u2019s written, I think, multiple versions depending on certain outcomes. So that\u2019s all I really know, and I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m even supposed to know that. I think we\u2019re at a precarious point for Doctor Who. I am hopeful that it\u2019s all going to be the start of a wonderful new era. So I really hope that that\u2019s what happens. If someone asks me and says, \u2018Would you? Do you want to do it?\u2019 Of course, I would always say, \u2018Yes.\u2019 I don\u2019t think I\u2019d ever say, \u2018No\u2019 to Russell anyway. It\u2019s fun, even when it\u2019s hard!\u201d<\/p>\n

Such a thing is not that unusual for \u2018Who\u2019. Piper\u2019s return, for example, was filmed very late after Gatwa decided he wouldn\u2019t be returning.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Disney+ still has yet to announce an international release for the limited series spin-off \u201cThe War Between the Land and the Sea\u201d which aired in the UK back in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC, Disney+ As previously reported, the future of \u201cDoctor Who\u201d remains in limbo. Disney\u2019s attempt to bring the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[94966,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-440643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}