Just days after headlining the Doctor Who New Years Day special, a report is claiming that Jodie Whittaker has quit the long-running British sci-fi show.

Nine different distress calls. A mysterious planet. The Doctor’s first enemy, alive and hungry for revenge as all roads lead to a final showdown where the fate of Earth hangs in the balance.

One Christmas tradition you won’t see this year? A Doctor Who Christmas episode starring newly regenerated Time Lord Jodie Whittaker getting up to some kind of Yuletide mischief. For the first time since the series returned in 2005, Doctor Who is skipping its annual day in favour of something else: A New Year’s Day special. Or to be more precise: A Who’s Day special.

Montgomery, Alabama, 1955. The Doctor and her friends find themselves in the Deep South of America. As they encounter a seamstress by the name of Rosa Parks, they begin to wonder whether someone is attempting to change history.

Still reeling from their first encounter, can the Doctor and her new friends stay alive long enough, in a hostile alien environment , to solve the mystery of Desolation? And just who are Angstrom and Epzo?

With every regeneration of TV’s most iconic time traveller, there comes a fresh start for a franchise that has always managed to evolve and adapt with the times, as each incarnation of the Doctor has found themselves hurled into a new predicament just moments after they were reborn. This time, it’s Jodie Whitaker handling the stress of the post-regeneration haze, juggling multiple balls in the air.

The Doctor may be highly advanced alien over 2 000 years old with the technology to travel the entirety of space and time, but the iconic Time Lord still needs companions. And now we know who they will be for the upcoming season 11.