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There’ll be no Christmas special then, I’ll tell the children.

This Doctor Who era’s days have long been numbered, and today the BBC confirmed the bad news. Showrunner Russell T Davies is stepping away, the Christmas special has been canceled (and was apparently never even written), and there’s no Who in the works while the BBC hunts for a new production company.

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