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When you film so far in advance of transmission, it becomes inevitable for a lot of things to leak - Season 1 and the 2024 Christmas special is already filmed, and they are making their way through filming Season 2, before we even have Season 1 first episode aired - is this the first time Doctor Who has filmed their episodes so far in advance?

This era is the first time I think that episodes have been filmed so far in advance, usually filming would finish a few months before the first episode aired (S13/Flux for example finished filming in August 2021 and starting airing at the end of October), whereas now as we saw with the 60th Specials. episodes are in the can for over a year before airing.

IIRC, RTD mentioned in the commentary for The Church on Ruby Road that the main reason why scripts are done so far in advance now is because of budgeting, so they can make the most of every penny