Who Cares? - Dr. Who Fans Talk TV

About Who Cares? - Dr. Who Fans Talk TV

Discussions about Doctor Who, its three showrunners, and more! Notes, sources, and YouTube versions linked at www.whocares.fun Who Cares? - Dr. Who Fans Talk TV is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/

Publisher

Who Cares?

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Oct 2018

Latest episode

25 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

152 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Oct 2026

   ‘Here Comes the Future’: RTD2’s Last Moves 🥀 Doctor Who Discussion Podcast

   After its latest 'death', what is the future of Doctor Who? We discuss the collapse of RTD's streaming 'empire', leak culture, the lost RTD2 Series 3, retellings and narrativisations, cancellation scars, fan custodianship of the show, RTD's new memoir, & much more as we trace the show's mid-2020s 'deaths' and ask what comes next. (0:00:00) Intro & framing the two discussions (0:03:43) Discussion #1: grieving Doctor Who (0:09:51) Christmas cancelled; 'Bafflers, Winternox, Village' (0:16:24) Imagining the Christmas special that never was (0:25:54) Psychic damage: the 1989 cancellation (0:32:39) Damaged Goods & being put out to tender (0:38:09) Custodianship & the Fitzroy Lot (0:46:21) Commercialising the BBC (0:50:48) RTD2's wasted talent (0:54:05) RTD2 as franchise & corporate fatigue (0:57:26) Differing showrunner skills (1:00:38) Queerness & 15's writing (1:04:47) COVID, 'I'm needed' & the empire dream (1:11:04) The Chibnall exit & the broken ending debate (1:19:51) The empire's rise & collapse: Ncuti, iPlayer, the budget (1:27:58) Renewal delayed; CBeebies & the 2026 Christmas (1:30:49) Very fine people: RTD, Shearman, Jane Tranter (1:33:54) The 26-episode order & hubris (1:41:09) The Christmas cancellation press release (1:45:46) RTD's catty farewell: 'Here comes the future, vworp vworp' (1:51:06) Flaws in a 'second' Wilderness (1:57:50) What's worth keeping, & hope for new hands (2:04:58) Discussion #2: 'in it to win it' (2:09:07) Reading the tender document (2:13:25) Potential showrunners: Mercurio, McTighe, Morrison/Wheatley (2:26:31) Dream showrunners & the genre question (2:30:02) TARDIS Crew: the CBeebies show (2:39:45) A 2026 Christmas special after all (2:42:06) 'The Queerest of Folk': first impressions (2:45:34) The Winternox confession (2:49:48) 'Supersizing Doctor Who': RTD's excuses for the flop (2:52:39) The botched launch: 60th, Church & Space Babies (2:56:18) RTD's exit & the leaks obsession (3:11:30) The lost Series 3 (3:17:24) The Billie Piper regeneration & the 'seven words' (3:24:05) Narrativising the truth (3:28:03) 'The Second Coming' & interfering with the imagery (3:32:24) Reverting to the mean: which way will the next era point? (3:42:17) RTD's future 'War Between' ideas (3:48:41) A shared universe & 'Digger-ification' (3:51:24) Final verdict: was RTD2 worthwhile? (3:56:19) Ain't No Season Three… Continue reading → Who Cares? - Dr. Who Fans Talk TV is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Tip Toe: Episodes 3-5 🏠 Discussion & Review Podcast | Russell T Davies TV

   Who gets to count as fully human, and who decides? We discuss the hate economy, performed masculinity, debt as dominance, the social Internet, & whether television can change anything, across the final three episodes of Russell T Davies' suburban thriller Tip Toe (00:00:00) Intro & ranking the final three episodes (00:04:48) Straight-lad culture & George in between worlds (00:11:50) What straight culture can absorb (00:19:50) George's make-up photo (00:23:28) Marginalising women, transness as the breaking point (00:25:38) Could George have played it off? (00:29:04) Dehumanising Z (00:32:42) Fatherhood anxiety & smears (00:37:05) Episode 3's flashbacks & 'the insolence on your face' (00:39:45) Clive owed a better life; the Buzzcocks song (00:43:54) Sex and violence crossed wires; the taxi scene (00:47:01) 'A straight man could have written this' (00:50:14) Violence as performed fatherhood (00:53:45) Natalism & the trap of parenthood (00:57:00) The gay horizon vs Clive's repression (01:00:40) Denormalising the family; pulling up the ladder (01:03:38) Hierarchy, & queerness beyond sexuality (01:07:47) Canal Street as heaven; Clive's glimpse of the horizon (01:14:01) The purpose Clive could have found (01:17:50) The end title cards (01:22:40) The title cards' genesis (01:27:44) Episode 4's false ending (01:30:06) Saul as the only healthy one (01:36:30) Who gets a happy ending? (01:43:04) Two closeted lads & a twist about society (01:48:07) Clive's conspiracies (01:58:00) Steph, and the muddle on trans rights (02:07:00) Z and Steph on the same side? (02:12:10) Z, Flo, Sarah (02:17:25) From anti-phone to the hate economy (02:22:00) Porn & age verification (02:25:00) The hate economy dramatised (02:32:41) Melba's croissants & what they represent (02:40:15) Graeber's Debt, the £20, & the bow (02:47:00) Payment as dominance (02:50:01) The empty shoes, queer tragedy, 'no happy dramas' (02:53:12) Can TV change anything? (02:58:00) Books; 'what's being written is bollocks' (03:02:45) Physicality; online logic vs real life (03:07:07) The thrill of making someone afraid (03:11:05) Leo's fatal flaw (03:15:08) The lynching as a game that never stops (03:18:21) Could Mikey have defused it? (03:23:20) Clive as discourse: folk hero or villain? (03:27:16) Why Clive lied about the affair (03:30:08) The bathroom scene (03:35:08) Realism, & RTD leaving Doctor Who (03:41:00) Violence; appetite for a public execution (03:44:46) Direction & Peter Hoar (03:49:00) The music (03:58:10) How Clive was created (04:00:36) RTD in the future (04:08:05) Sign-off… Continue reading → Who Cares? - Dr. Who Fans Talk TV is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/

3. 

   7 Jun 2026

   Tip Toe: Episodes 1-2 📱 Discussion & Review Podcast | Russell T Davies TV

   How does Russell T Davies' suburban thriller Tip Toe miniseries reflect the 2020s? We discuss hierarchies of humanity, porous worlds, clashes of masculinity, technological frivolity, & much more as we dive into the first two episodes. (00:00:00) Appreciating the show (00:06:41) Leo: hamartia, hyperbole, rhetoric, glibness, banter (00:23:26) Clive: coldness, masculinity, homoeroticism, bravery (00:45:25) Saul & his audience; George & projection (00:53:01) The Leo & George texting sequence (01:09:26) Clive & Leo: cruelty, class, pity (01:22:33) Phones, masturbation montage (01:29:05) Music (01:34:16) Ex Curtis dinner party scene (01:41:19) Steph & 'gender critical friends' (01:52:59) In the middle, Palestine, frivolity, conspiracy (02:04:42) Phones, youth, culture, doomscrolling (02:23:01) Phones, cognition, insanity, form (02:36:30) Can TV help the world? (02:46:18) Violence & porousness between worlds (02:54:46) America, RTD2, inspirations, titles… Continue reading →

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

275,487

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

44 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

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Quality

31

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

90

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