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Gizmodo
12-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Russell T Davies Wants You to Stop Asking Him If ‘Doctor Who' Is Dead or Not
We can officially add Russell T Davies to the list of creative people who've become irritated with fans wanting updates on a particular project they're inextricably linked to. Think George R.R. Martin and The Winds of Winter, or James Gunn and The Batman Part II. Now, the Doctor Who showrunner from 2005-2010 and again since 2023 would like you to stop asking him Doctor Who questions. No doubt those queries have only gotten more intense thanks to the utter lack of updates about the show's future. Ncuti Gatwa's run as the character ended when the Fifteenth Doctor regenerated—confusingly—at the end of May, and fans still have no idea what's coming next, if at all. 'There's nothing to report, nothing's happening. You'll know when you know, when we know. I don't know,' Davies said on the Pilot TV podcast this week (via Doctor Who TV). He also pointed out, 'Conversations are between the BBC and Disney. I don't work for either of them. I work for Bad Wolf, so I'm not part of those rooms. So I literally don't know. And even people I work with every day, so they couldn't know what's really going on. I'm going, 'I don't know.' I really don't know.' In another recent interview, this time with the Big Issue magazine (via Deadline), he brought up the fact that even though he's devoted a lot of his career to Doctor Who, that's not all he's done. 'I love Doctor Who, but I don't own it. It's not mine. So in the end, my heart will always be with the things that I own,' including shows he created himself like Queer as Folk. The magazine did ask him about the future of Doctor Who, because frankly, people are dying to know. He gave a one-word answer: 'Behave!' That's not quite Gunn telling Batman Part II speculators to 'Get off Matt [Reeves]' nuts,' but we may escalate there soon. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Times
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Bear's showrunner on mixing motherhood with a top-flight career
T he kitchen in The Bear is a fraught and chaotic place. Joanna Calo, a showrunner (the person who has creative authority over a production) and co-writer on the restaurant drama, has never worked as a chef but she can definitely relate to that sense of culinary trauma. 'I think about the stress of making two dinners for my children every night and then you multiply that by a hundred,' she says. 'Once you see it [the panic behind the scenes], you think, of course, what did I think was happening back there when they were making hundreds of meals?' Calo, who has a six-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son, briefly started photographing the meals she had made for her children that they refused to eat. 'The idea was to capture the love that had been put into these dishes that they would reject.' There's a throaty laugh. 'I thought I was going to create these dishes that they'd remember as adults — 'My mom made me shakshuka from scratch!' — and they won't even lick it once. They just want chicken nuggets.'
Forbes
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Why Fans Shouldn't Worry About A ‘Wheel Of Time' Season 4 Renewal
Wheel of Time I've seen some amount of panic among fans of The Wheel of Time that it's been a while since the show ended and there has not been a renewal announcement for season 4 after the truly excellent season 3. Fans are sharing a petition with almost two hundred thousand 'letters sent,' and they've seen it shared by the show's creator and members of the cast, which they believe implies that maybe there's some desperation setting in that this might not happen. While I don't find myself often being an optimist, I think fans may be overly stressed here a bit, and there are a number of reasons that it seems unlikely Amazon will cancel Wheel of Time ahead of season 4, or really before it's able to concoct some sort of conclusion overall (let's be real, no matter what this isn't going to run for as many seasons as the nearly endless amount of books). Wheel of Time The fact that it's been three weeks or so since The Wheel of Time season 3's finale aired and there's been no word about renewal…doesn't mean anything. A month plus is easily more than standard in the streaming industry, and barely any shows get renewals immediately or while a season is still airing. All we have to do is look to Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon's other big (much bigger, in terms of scope and budget) fantasy series which once upon a time seemed guaranteed to run for five seasons at least. But after viewership for season 2 was reportedly cut in half from season 1, it took three and a half months after the finale to get official word that the series was coming back for season 3. More than most, I believe Amazon also respects quality to the point where they want most of their series outside of perhaps horrific underperformers (which Wheel of Time is not) to be able to exist as coherent wholes rather than impose a mid-story cancellation. Wheel of Time has always reviewed pretty well, but season 3 rocketed up to a stunning 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and I don't think it's an exaggeration that it's currently the best fantasy series on TV. That's something Amazon is not going to take lightly. Wheel of Time Finally, I don't think the cast is desperate, I think they're just sharing the petition as a form of appreciation for its fanbase, not that they badly need the signatures to get Amazon to pay attention. We've already heard optimistic comments from the cast about season 4 to this point. Here's Josha Stradowski (Rand al'Thor) last month: 'Yeah, we're confident that a fourth season will be greenlit.' And then showrunner Rafe Judkins about why they went with Amazon in the first place: 'That is the same thing that I've been sort of asking Amazon,' Judkins said. 'What is the end game for the show? I really want to deliver this full series, so how do we best do that?' 'I think one reason we went with Amazon, because we had options of who was going to buy the series when we first went out with it, is that Amazon felt like a place where they do want to invest in shows for the long term. There's not a lot of places doing that anymore.' It's been three weeks, that's too soon to worry about anything. And really, we see shows renewed after months, so we're far away from some sort of panic point. All current signs point to Amazon renewing Wheel of Time for season 4 eventually, and I don't think fans should be stressing too much. Follow me on Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.
