Doctor Who's New Story Is Everything RTD's Season 14 Needs To Be
The new Doctor Who audio-drama, released weekly on BBC Sounds, shows just how Russell T. Davies can reinvent the show. Regeneration lies at the heart of Doctor Who. It's not just how the show moves from one Doctor to the next; each regeneration is also an opportunity for the show to reinvent itself, sometimes dramatically. One such moment is coming, with Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor due to depart after the upcoming Doctor Who Centenary Special — along with current showrunner Chris Chibnall. Russell T. Davies is returning to take Doctor Who in a bold new direction, with an as-yet-unannounced Fourteenth Doctor arriving for season 14.
But Whittaker's stories aren't quite over. The BBC has launched a new audio-drama on BBC Sounds, Doctor Who: Redacted, with episodes dropping every Sunday. Although Whittaker has herself recorded dialogue for the story, in truth this is a Doctor-light adventure in the style of «Blink.» The basic concept is a chilling one; everyone who ever knew the Doctor is being erased (or "redacted"), and the Doctor is being forgotten. Doctor Who: Redacted stars a group of podcasters and conspiracy theorists who have been tracking a mysterious blue box through history, and who have no idea what they've stumbled into. Two episodes in, the audio-drama Doctor Who: Redacted is drawing popular and critical acclaim as a tremendous adventure that honors the show's past while pointing the way to a brighter future.
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Fundamentally, Doctor Who: Redacted understands there's a sense in which the human characters (usually companions) should serve as the stars, because they are the lens through which the Doctor should be interpreted.
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