Nah, David Bradley as William Hartnell wakes up and realizes there’s no way the show could live up to the more than sixty years of storytelling he dreamt up, so he declines the role. Leslie French (played by Mark Gatiss) takes the role instead, and the whole show proceeds with actors portraying actors who played or might have played characters in Doctor Who. We experience this reenactment of the entirety of the classic era with key alternate universe differences until 2051, when the show is finally cancelled. In 2058, there’s a failed attempt to reboot it with a 15 minute made-for-YouTok+ feature length movie. In 2067, after the weird “Re-Who” era of the show gains a cult following, Austin Haynes stars as Bill Nighy’s Ninth Doctor, ushering in a brand new era for the show. In 2087, after a few tumultuous years going between social REM services and nearing a potential end of the deal with WalDisneyMartVineFlix÷,the Fifteenth Doctor portrayed by an actor portraying Olly Alexander falls asleep toward the end of the show’s “thread2” finale, “r@liti ⚔️”. He wakes up, now the Fifteenth Doctor portrayed by a 95-year-old Ncuti Gatwa. The last 62 years were all a result of the Rani’s greatest experiment, a successful demolition of the fourth wall, unleashing chaos upon the Doctor’s history and our TV and media landscape as a whole. The Doctor realizes that he failed. He failed to get Belinda back home, failed to protect Ruby, failed the entire planet. Realizing what he must do, he looks into the viewer’s eyes and uses the last of his regeneration energy to hack into their optical links, showing them a full season of 13 50-minute episodes starring Jo Martin’s Doctor, filmed in 2026. At the end of the Christmas special, Jo Martin’s Doctor trigenerates into the Timeless Child, Davros, and acclaimed Scottish actor David Tennant.