Showrunner, Russell T Davies, has given us a teaser of what’s to come in Doctor Who Series 14, including “very unusual territory for the show to go into”.

We’ve got less than a fortnight until the next run of stories begins on BBC1, BBC iPlayer, and Disney+ across the world, so Davies promises:

“What we’ve got coming up is the full range of adventures. We’ve got comedy stories. We’ve got music. We’ve got horror. We’ve got Welsh folk horror. It’s a very unusual territory for the show to go into. We’ve got chases. We’ve got the end of the world…

“And sometimes we’ve got something as simple as the end of a friendship and a broken heart at the centre of the stage. So it’s got the full emotional range. It’s got all the epic stuff, if you love that, but it’s got heart and humanity right at the centre of it.”

“The end of a friendship and a broken heart” is interesting — the implication is a falling out between the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), but perhaps that there’s a spark of romance in there too; or at least that Ruby might have her eye on a certain Time Lord…

But would Davies relive his greatest hits, i.e. Martha Jones falling for the Tenth Doctor but getting ultimately rejected? Hmm, we can’t see it, but you never know. There is a certain frisson between the Doctor and Ruby, but then that is arguably the case between the Doctor and many of his companions; that’s not necessarily love or anything like that.

We shall see in Series 14 — that is, Space Babies, The Devil’s Chord, Boom, 73 Yards, Dot and Bubble, Rogue, The Legend of Ruby Sunday, and Empire of Death, coming very soon…