Former Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman says the series is "probably as dead as we've ever known it" after Ncuti Gatwa's surprise regeneration.
"It’s weird because the show is probably as dead as we’ve ever known it," he told Doctor Who Magazine (via Cultbox). "After 1989 we had, for years, a current Doctor," Shearman continued, referring to the years between 1989 and 2005 when the show wasn't airing (minus a TV movie in 1996). "Now, everything that is ever going to be produced in Doctor Who terms is going to feel retrogressive. At least with the New Adventures and then the BBC Books you thought, 'It’s the current Doctor – [Sylvester] McCoy or [Paul] McGann.'"
