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The upcoming series of Doctor Who<\/a> may be Chris Chibnall\u2019s last<\/a> but he\u2019s determined to make the most of it, with the outgoing showrunner promising to \u201cblow up the universe\u201d in the season 13 premiere.<\/p>\n Speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press at a webinar for the BBC One show, Chibnall said that he knew he\u2019d have to take Doctor Who in a new direction to accommodate complications related to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s changed everything, really, from start to finish. We knew we had to reinvent and reimagine the show to deal with the kind of production implications of COVID.<\/p>\n \u201cSo there were two ways we could go. We could go \u2018lots of little stories set in a room with two people\u2019, or we could blow up the universe in episode one and then go from there. And we went with the \u2018blowing up the universe\u2019 strategy.\u201d<\/p> He added that series 13, which consists of six episodes \u2013 or \u201cchapters\u201d, will tell one story and features some of the \u201cbiggest-ever cliffhangers\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, it\u2019s always interesting with Doctor Who. There\u2019s always a precedent. There\u2019s always been a variation on what you\u2019re doing. So it harks back to things that the show has done in the past, when it was more serialised, even when it started off back in 1963, when you had multi-episode serials and things like that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt changes the rhythm of the storytelling. It changes the way you tell the stories. It changes the way we deal with characters \u2013 characters who go across more than one episode. Monsters who go across more than one episode. And it\u2019s probably more in line with other TV series that you\u2019re watching currently. So it was a big challenge, and then it became a massive creative opportunity.<\/p>\n \u201cSo lots of cliffhangers, I would say is the big thing. Which is embedded into Doctor Who \u2013 some of our biggest-ever cliffhangers.\u201d<\/p>\n The upcoming series of Doctor Who is set to be Chibnall\u2019s last as showrunner and Jodie Whittaker\u2019s final outing as the Doctor, before Russell T Davies returns<\/a> to celebrate the show\u2019s 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n By Lauren Morris Published: Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 12:00 am The upcoming series of Doctor Who may be Chris Chibnall\u2019s last but he\u2019s determined to make the most of it, with the outgoing showrunner promising to \u201cblow up the universe\u201d in the season 13 premiere. 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