While it's only been a couple of weeks since Doctor Who season 14 came to an end, fans are still desperate for more, and showrunner Russell T Davies has now spoken about one moment that was filmed but never aired.
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Speaking in this month's issue of SFX, Davies explained that very rarely do entire scenes get cut from Doctor Who, but there was one in particular from The Devil's Chord that didn't make the final edit.
He said: "There's one scene we deliberately cut at the end of The Devil's Chord, actually, because they run onto the rooftop and there was a scene where the Doctor said, 'Oh, time's gonna go crazy now, music is flooding back in, and everything's gonna be strange for 10 minutes' to kind of explain why they burst into song."
The scene was shot, but when they watched it back it was decided it was "boring" to explain "why you burst into song".
Davies added: "Why explain why you burst into song? Just burst into song! So I think that scene possibly would've made a lot of people happy. I'm really glad we took it out! It's only 20 seconds of dialogue, it was nothing. I can't think of anything else that we cut."
Shirley Ballas, Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and Johannes Radebe in Doctor Who.
Speaking in a behind the scenes video on YouTube for Empire of Death, Davies said: "Now the Doctor voyages forward, and guess what always happens to the Doctor every so often – Christmas! Here comes Christmas.
"I can't give away much more but work has begun on it already, and it's mad, it's one of the maddest Christmas specials you'll ever see. It's epic, it goes to so many different places. And it's a great story of who the Doctor is when he's alone."
Katelyn Mensah is the Entertainment and Factual Writer for Radio Times, covering all major entertainment programmes, reality TV shows and the latest hard-hitting documentaries. She previously worked at The Tab, with a focus on reality TV and showbiz news and has obtained a BA (Hons) in Journalism.
