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\n\t\tDocotr Who\u2019s future is in flux\u2026 no, not that flux (Picture: BBC\/Danny Kasirye)<\/p>\n

Doctor Who<\/a> is in an odd place both in the fictional universe it inhabits and our mundane reality.<\/p>\n

Last we saw, the tenacious Time Lord Ncuti Gatwa<\/a> was burning away to reveal the Doctor\u2019s new face<\/a>, and it looked very familiar. For whatever reason, the Last of the Time Lords appeared to have taken on the form of his old companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper).<\/p>\n

Needless to say, this sudden and unexpected transformation<\/a> has left a lot of fans very curious \u2013 and in some cases downright furious<\/a> \u2013 about what\u2019s next for the good doctor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Annoyingly, however, the BBC and Russell T Davies have remained tight-lipped on the situation and at the time of writing, there\u2019s been no word on the beloved sci-fi series\u2019 future or whether Disney is interested in helping finance another run.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s a Gallifreyan superfan to do then? Well, here at Metro <\/strong>we\u2019ve gathered our team of dedicated Doctor Who experts \u2013 Deputy TB Editor Tom Percival, TV Reporter Asyia Iftikhar, and Senior TV Reporter Rebecca Cooke \u2013 and cracked out the crystal ball to predict what\u2019s next for the show, both in terms of the story and the thorny world of TV production.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t worry, though, most of us are predicting a happy ending for the Doctor. <\/p>\n

Tom\u2019s Prediction \u2013 \u2018One last special\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tA Rose is a Rose is a Rose\u2026 except this is Bad Wolf (Picture: BBC Studios\/Bad Wolf\/James Pardon\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

It might just be me, but it seems painfully obvious where Doctor Who is going next. <\/p>\n

Regardless of Disney\u2019s involvement, I think we\u2019re getting at least one more special, and I don\u2019t believe that Billie is playing a true incarnation of the Doctor. Instead, it seems far more plausible that she\u2019s the Bad Wolf entity borrowing the Doctor\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

Basically, in this imagined special, we\u2019d learn that Rose\u2019s consciousness exists in the Time Vortex as Bad Wolf. When 15 poured his regeneration energy into the time vortex to bring back Poppy, part of that consciousness merged with the Doctor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sadly, it\u2019s not a true regeneration, and this new \u2018Meta-Crisis Rose Doctor\u2019 has a limited time until the body finishes \u2018cooking\u2019 and the true 16th Doc emerges. In that time, though, she has all Rose\u2019s memories and all the Doctor\u2019s abilities, so she decides to track down her Doctor\u2026 aka David Tennant.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tIt ain\u2019t easy being a god (Picture: BBC)<\/p>\n

Over the course of a special, we then get \u2018Rose Doctor\u2019 travelling through the Doctor\u2019s timeline, running into some familiar faces (old companions and some returning Doctors perhaps?) before one final tear-jerking run-in with the 10th Doctor giving closure on Davies\u2019 tenure and the revived Doctor Who series.\u00a0 Basically it\u2019s one big happy ending. <\/p>\n

What happens next depends on whether the BBC wants more Doctor Who or not. But either way, I think it\u2019ll end with the Rose Doctor regenerating into the true 16th Doctor.<\/p>\n

This will either lead to a third season or, if the BBC decides it\u2019s done with Who, the regeneration will be left open-ended for some future writer to pick up a decade or so from now.<\/p>\n

Whatever happens, though, I think it\u2019s time for some fresh blood, and that means two things. Drop Russell T Davies and leave the nostalgia for New Who behind. Change is part of the show\u2019s DNA, and the refusal to \u2018regenerate\u2019 has been holding the series back.<\/p>\n

Asyia\u2019s prediction \u2013 \u2018The show goes on\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tSorry RTD we love you but a change is needed (Picture: Alan Chapman\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Disney will pull out of the deal, and the show will fall back into the BBC\u2019s hands, returning with a 2026 festive special by which time they will have chosen the 16th Doctor proper.<\/p>\n

In the Christmas special, much like Susan\u2019s cameo was teased and never addressed again in season two, Billie Piper will make a fleeting appearance before the show quickly moves on.<\/p>\n

I believe she won\u2019t even last the full episode, and her cameo will be resolved perhaps even in the first 5 to 10 minutes, as the Doctor\u2019s regeneration goes wacky due to Rose\u2019s energy being in the Time Vortex after the Bad Wolf incident.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tHey, look, it\u2019s Bad Wolf, I mean Rose! (Picture: BBC)<\/p>\n

Billie will then regenerate into thetrue16th Doctor, who will have their introductory adventure.<\/p>\n

The show will then return in 2027 for a full season three (ideally returning to, at least, the 10-episode structure provided for Jodie Whittaker\u2019s era) with a brand new companion.<\/p>\n

Belinda Chandra, Ruby Sunday, the 15th Doctor, and whoever Billie is portraying will be firmly left in the past \u2013 and, like you, I hope and assume there will be a new showrunner.<\/p>\n

Becky\u2019s Prediction \u2013 \u2018Hot ones? More like Who Ones\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tNcuto\u2019s regeneration has gone down like a lead balloon (Picture: BBC Studios\/Bad Wolf\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say the Billie Piper reveal has not gone down well. <\/p>\n

Most see it as the Whoniverse putting the brand on life support, where the memories of the good ol\u2019 heyday of the Russell reboot are intravenously administered to keep the dwindling fanbase hopeful that our ailing Tardis might pull through.<\/p>\n

So, if an idea like, say, bringing back a beloved companion and defying show logic by making her a Time Lord were to backfire, how best to style it out?<\/p>\n

This season gave fans a lot of things on their wishlist: big budget, stellar Doctor, lovable companion, some cracking episodes (Lux, The Well, etc). But still, it seemed the only fans tuning in were the meta superfans we met when the Doctor battled Mr Ring-a-Ding.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tThe future is now, sadly (Picture: First We Feast via YouTube)<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go out on a limb here and say that Disney won\u2019t back out. That Rose is the Sixteenth Doctor. (All the logical predictions have been taken.)<\/p>\n

In order to get fans back in and keep Disney sweet, we might have a big shake-up on our hands. Huge. Piper is so bonkers and out-there a person to appear in the regeneration, it could upset the time-space continuum enough to usher in the new normal: a Doctor-of-the-week format.<\/p>\n

Hear me out. Perhaps Piper is explained away with some timey-wimey nonsense, and perhaps it turns out the mechanics of Time Lord-dom are broken. He\/she\/they is regenerating every hour of television, to be precise.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tWhich Doctor Who prediction do you think is right?<\/p>\n