Doctor Who (Reboot Series)

Doctor Who is an upcoming Southern English science fiction television series primary produced by dwho1995 Television Studios, a unit of dwho1995 Studios, in collaboration with BBC Studios and Disney Branded Television. It is based upon the relegate Time Lord alien, The Doctor, who travels through time and space using the Type 50 TARDIS (with its interior using the Type 10 version of it based on a fan concepthttps://x.com/ThetaSigma11235/status/1771824239433150603?s=20) and battles his arch enemies including the Daleks.
It is a reboot of the original UK era of Doctor Who, which came to an end after Series 15 in July 2025 before it was removed from the archives afterwards and never to be seen again but original art concepts would be altered with several references to Britain removed. It is due to be aired with the Boxing Day special on 26 December 2025 with Series 1 to follow in May 2026.
==Development==
It was announced on 20th August 2024, on Callum Precious's birthday, that Doctor Who would be reimagined as a Southern English television series for the new generation around the world with pre-production gets underway in September. It will replace the UK era of the programme, which was removed from the BBC's television archives due to the references to the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. At the same time, Series 1 has been commissioned and a Christmas special also announced with that expected to be aired on Boxing Day 2025 on BBC One in the United Southern England (with its IPlayer drop out at 12am (evening time) on Christmas Day) and on Disney+ internationally. Precious, a Doctor Who fan, have made further clarity that the international streaming deal for the show between the BBC and Disney - which began on 25th October 2022 - will remain unaffected by the show's resetting but also prepared for the removal of the 2023-2025 UK-era Doctor Who series. The TARDIS would also get a makeover: The physical box design would remain unchanged but, instead of references to the police, a military-themed design set to take its place for the Christmas special and beyond. Unlike the Christmas Specials era, the Boxing Day would end the current series each year instead of signalling the beginning of each series as it was in the past. However, the 2026 Boxing Day would end the first series (commissioned in August 2024) before moving on to the second series; which also commissioned in August 2024 but the second series itself won't be aired until 2027.
On 31st October 2024, one day ahead of the complete removal of British television content, it was announced by the BBC Broadcasting System (BBC) that former Neighbours star and fan-favourite Guy Pearce; known for playing Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol; would star as the reimagined version of The First Doctor - originally played by William Hartnell from 1963-1966 - in the 2026 series as The Doctor's regeneration cycle is about to be reset for the show after more than 60 years. Following the announcement, the BBC also confirmed that every era of Doctor Who and its Whoniverse collection would be removed from BBC IPlayer after July 2025 with physical media stocks of it to be phased out afterwards on 1st November 2025, to make way for the rebooted era of Doctor Who. The programme became the last UK-related content to be phased out despite all British content being removed on 1st November 2024, six months after Southern England gains independence from the United Kingdom. In July 2025, during a surprise ending in the Series 15 finale, Precious made his screen debut as the previously-unknown incarnation of the Doctor known as the Survivor Doctor in the Christmas special - replacing Ncuti Gatwa who plays the Fifteenth Doctor in the series but the Precious incarnation retained the Fifteenth Doctor's costume (worned by Gatwa) in a regeneration form - before Guy Pearce appears in the third act and takes over the role as the Doctor towards the end of the aforementioned episode.
On 31st December 2024, the 2025 Boxing Day Special of Doctor Who would be titled Brave New World. It will be the first episode of the rebooted era of the programme following the complete removal of every era of the show to comply with Southern England's independence earlier in the year. It will be a stand-alone episode of the show rather than being an opening episode of Series 1 while also serve as a set-up for the dwho1995 Cinematic Universe film series. Other appearances to join Precious in the episode are Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien (having previously being the Thirteenth Doctor's companion in the show from 2018-2021), Dakota Fanning as Ryan Maximus (The Survivor Doctor's future wife), Nicholas Cage as Rassilon (President of Galifrey), and the return of John Simm as The Master and Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.
==Pre-production==
During the announcement video of the first-ever dwho1995 Studios release slate, while Blackstar expected to be delayed until August 2026, Callum Precious announces that the pre-production for the Boxing Day special expected to begin in October while pre-production for the first series of the rebooted programme to begin in April 2025.
==Filming==
The filming of a newly-rebooted Doctor Who will begin on 31st January 2025 in Oxford Street in the West End of London and expected to be wrapped on 30th March 2025. Series 1 will start filming in South Africa in June 2025 and due to be wrapped in Luton in November that year.
== Television Stories ==
=== Survivor Doctor ===
The Survivor Doctor will be portrayed by Callum Precious. Equally, Precious became the first autistic person to play the role of The Doctor with London-born Steven Knight; known for his Midlands-set works including Peaky Blinders and The Town; takes over as a showrunner - replacing Russell T Davies following his immediate dismissal in July 2024 days ahead of Southern England's independence
==== 2025 Boxing Day Special ====
Following the removal of the UK-era Doctor Who series from the entertainment history books after the Series 15 finale premiered in July 2025, the modernised era of Doctor Who began to materialised in December 2025. While Knight is the new showrunner in charge, the newly-formed dwho1995 Television Studios would primary produce the show with Callum Precious served as an executive producer.
The Boxing Day Special was broadcast on a Friday.
=== Dynasty Doctor ===
The Dynasty Doctor will be portrayed by Guy Pearce.
==== Series 1 (Reboot Series) ====
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==== Series 2 ====
Story	No.	Title 	Original airdate
16 	001	Before There Was Secret Wars (Part 1) 	21 August 2027
17 	002	The Council of Kang (Part 2) 	28 August 2027
18 	003	The Sontarans in St Albans 	4 September 2027
19 	004	Star-Lord and The Doctor 	11 September 2027
20 	005	The Seven Samurai 	18 September 2027
21 	006	Cybertron 	25 September 2027
22 	007	Goodnight Mr Lawrence 	2 October 2027
23 	008	The Resurrection of Tzim-Sha 	9 October 2027
24 	009	Uncharted Waters 	16 October 2027
25 	010	The Pennywise Dynasty 	23 October 2027
26 	011	Pitch Black 	30 November 2027
27 	012	The Legend of Imhotep (Part 1) 	6 November 2027
28 	013	An Assault on Egypt (Part 2) 	13 November 2027
29 	- 	Liberty in America (Boxing Day Special)	26 December 2027
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