Although over a month has passed since the announcement was made, it seems that the pieces are still being picked up from the explosive news that Doctor Who had been put out to competitive tender. Despite the now-previous showrunner Russell T. Davies confirming that a Christmas special had been penned for 2026, and strong rumors that the hunt for a new titular Time Lord was underway, the rug was pulled from beneath Whovians' feet when it was confirmed that not only was Doctor Who not going to return, but neither of those suggestions was true. "This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans," read a statement from the BBC at the time of the announcement. "We are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show, which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory." The dust settling on this has allowed many to realize the benefits of the decision, especially following Davies' disastrous second stint as showrunner, which included constant backlash, a lackluster partnership with Disney, and the strange early exit of star Ncuti Gatwa. The time following the announcement has also allowed the incoming Director General of the BBC, Matt Brittin, to prepare his own statement on the show's future, which was made all the more worrying when the former Google executive confirmed that the entire company would face major cuts under his tenure. "That’s a show that has regenerated multiple times in its 60-plus year history, and we’ll do so again," Brittin said as the BBC published its annual report. "I think that’s one of the great things about the 100-year history of the BBC. We can do that, and we can creatively renew shows that people love, and we’ll be working hard on that right now." Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for. You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help but notice the seams in things. The wasteland doesn't reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That's you. You'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely. Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards. The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn't have it any other way. One man definitely looking to move on from the Doctor Who noise is Davies, who recently delivered his first post-Who project in the UK to great acclaim. Titled Tip Toe, the drama starring five-time Emmy winner Alan Cumming earned rave reviews from critics, being called "an urgent state-of-the-nation drama" by Radio Times. Later this year, U.S. fans will have the chance to catch Davies' new series as it was confirmed recently that it will soon stream on Starz.