{"id":794374,"date":"2026-10-07T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794374\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:50:14","slug":"russell-t-davies-reacts-to-question-of-doctor-who-created-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794374\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell T Davies reacts to question of Doctor Who created by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006v5tb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Breakfast<\/a> hosted by Sally Nugent and John Kay, former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says the use of AI to create episodes of the programme is a complicated discussion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Russell-T-Davies-TARDIS-Doctor-Who-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Russell T Davies, the Doctor Who showrunner, at the 14th\/15th Doctor's TARDIS console\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-141945\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>John Kay, when mentioning that BBC Director General Matt Brittin had <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/general\/bbcs-matt-brittin-deems-ai-generated-doctor-who-video-pretty-good\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seen and praised<\/a> a fan-made a Doctor Who episode created by AI, asked Davies\u2019 for his thoughts on that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t start me on that. If you lead me into an opinion on artificial intelligence, it\u2019ll chase me for the rest of my life and get quoted at me. I think it\u2019s a very interesting time. I think fans are now making their own episodes on AI which are broadcast quality \u2014 almost. When I was young, I used to sit and draw episodes. No-one was stopping me doing that. It\u2019s a very complicated discussion but I think we\u2019re essentially looking at the end of copyright.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Queerest-of-Flok-Russell-T-Davies-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-151426\"  \/><\/p>\n<p> Davies\u2019 new memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/general\/former-doctor-who-showrunner-russell-t-davies-offers-a-new-memoir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/TheQueerestOfFolk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available to pre-order<\/a> for an 8 October 2026 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On BBC Breakfast hosted by Sally Nugent and John Kay, former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,2515,835,175194,125471,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bbc-breakfast","tag-doctor-who","tag-matt-brittin","tag-russell-t-davies","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794374","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=794374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}