Chris Chibnall says he’s done with Doctor Who: “Absolutely never again!”

By James Hibbs

Published: Monday, 11 April 2022 at 12:00 am

It’s soon to be the end of an era for Doctor Who, as showrunner Chris Chibnall and his Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, leave the show.

Chibnall is to be replaced by Russell T Davies, who returns to the show after previously stewarding it through its revival from 2005 to 2010.

Davies’ return has, of course, got people asking who else could return to the sci-fi in future, but in an interview with this week’s Radio Times magazine, Chibnall has made his position on a potential comeback for himself very clear.

He said: “Absolutely never again! Clear red line, final script. I never expected to come back after working with Steven [Moffat], really, and I’d turned it down a couple of times after that.

“I never thought I’d be offered the job and built into that is why I wanted to keep it to a very specific three-series thing.

“Supervising teenagers’ revision is taking up my time now and there’s lots of other things to write! I will happily sit back and watch. For all that it’s been gorgeous all along, now it’s like, ‘Oh I remember this. This is what real life is like!’”