The Doctor Who Gossip No One Is Talking About - Because No One Knows About It

So, this is really only a blip in the current vacuum of Doctor Who news. We're down to second third fourth hand gossip, but at least this is via Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool. Except it didn't seem to meet BC newsworthy criteria, so he posted it to his substack instead. Probably because it's the sort of hearsay redditors tend to spin into wild conjecture.

The basic premise is that somehow, the show runner and production company have already selected the next Doctor, and are in full swing producing the holiday special, scheduled to air on christmas day. And the reason nobody knows about this is, it's all being done in secrecy.

Bear in mind, these are the same powers that be who had huge swathes of the past two seasons' plot points leaked before airing, so how they suddenly became masters of covert production is the main question.

Until we hear otherwise from official channels, though, this is at least a positivist antidote to the inevitable "Doctor Who is DEAD" theorising that has filled online channels for the past year...