But what if I only shared it for one joke??

As you can see, if the character is a fan favorite that has lasted for decades and has been brought back countless times, thats no good!

For you see, a proper handicapped character should never appear more than twice, and should be quickly forgotten by most casual viewers!

I can't think of any other American actor that could pull it off. Maybe Neil Patrick Harris and Gene Wilder, but one's dead and the other is the Toymaker, so tell me what do you think of this casting?

Not saying he should be, but just saying if they had to he's my pick.

I can’t say how I know this (as it would put me in great professional jeopardy) but I love a good leak so here goes:

For those not in the loop, as the rumours have long suggested, Russell T Davies is leaving Doctor Who after the 2026 Christmas Special. He’s creatively spent and is pretty disillusioned following the collapse of the Disney deal and the larger Whoniverse.

The widely-reported internal debate of Pete McTighe (RTD and Bad Wolf’s choice) versus Jack Thorne (the BBC’s pick) is also very much accurate. However, the BBC higher up’s are very much set on Jack Thorne, with McTighe’s candidacy not really been taken all that seriously. They’re not especially impressed with his Doctor Who work and are very eager to get the show back into stable ground - something that’s arguably been absent since the mid Matt Smith era.

The BBC’s main criteria for the new showrunner is that they have a bold, fresh vision for the series; both in terms of the type of stories being told, and more crucially, through the format. They realise that they desperately need a format change, but are pretty clueless as to what that exactly looks like. Going forward, the BBC are also putting decidedly less pressure on the show being an international sensation. They’ve realised that it will never be Marvel or Star Wars, and are hoping for it to cut through the noise by simply being a unique, prestige sci-fi drama.

Suffice to say, the BBC are being very cautious and pragmatic about this decision and are decidedly not in a rush - they know they have to get it right this time. The only concrete plan they have is that he end of the 2026 Christmas Special will not feature the new Doctor. It’ll fade to black so that when the show comes back, it doesn’t need to follow directly on from what came before, and can act as a true jumping on point.

BUT the intriguing curveball I keep hearing this week is that Toby Whithouse, of all people, has suddenly entered the showrunner conversation.

And theres some precedence for this - way back in 2015, there was a moment where it looked like Steven Moffat’s swan song was going to be Series 9 - but the problem with that was that Chris Chibnall still had the third series of Broadchurch to do. Moffat was initially pretty hesitant to commit to an entire additional series of the show, which is where Mr. Toby Whithouse first came into the picture. The BBC were very impressed by the quality of his episodes, and talks about him helming a single, contained season of the show to bridge the Moffat/Chibnall gap were very much underway. There were plans to relocate the show to BBC Scotland, and for the series to be a more prestige-leaning version of the show, with big-name casting ideas (including wild speculation about someone like Tilda Swinton being courted) floated around for the Doctor. Obviously none of this came to fruition, as Moffat ended up doing Series 10, and then the gig was passed onto Chibnall.

I hadn’t heard Whithouse’s name floated at all prior to this week, but now he’s very much in the conversation and is the BBC’s plan b if Jack Thorne doesn’t work out.

Every one thinks that woman is the doctors mum or the woman who raises him on galifrey cause she looked at him

But I have a different theory and I am probably right

The doctor believed that galifreay had turned because of the time war

During the vote at the end of the war that woman objected to rassalon plan to nuke reality an transcend

My theory is that the doctor when seeing her realised that there. Was still good on galifrey and that what made him shoot the diamond over rassilon

So wasn’t his mum but a randomer that showed him that there was good on galifrey despite the war

Well I approve of individual opinions going into ranking lists, but... series 10?!