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To expand, here's the complete transcript. Richardson is "selling the series". He's not making an offhand comment. He's setting it up, explaining it for people who have no knowledge of the situation.

David Richardson: Vienna is a character who was created by Johnny Morris for The Shadow Heart, one of our Doctor Who releases for last year, um, and Chase Masterson just came in on the day and just did something wonderful.

Others: She did, she did.

DR: She just kind of sparkled. And we just started talking about maybe creating a series for Chase as that character. Um, I know some people refer to it as a Doctor Who spin-off. I do not see it as a Doctor Who spin-off. It's its own thing. It's not set in the Doctor Who world at all.

Notice that he says, twice, that he does not see it as a Doctor Who spin off. Very clearly what is meant by "Doctor Who world" is what we would call here at this wiki "the DWU".

Richardson would not "casually", or in an "off-hand" way, do this. In many, many different episodes of The Big Finish Podcast, Briggs and company directly say that the attachment to the DW license is a big financial deal for them. If something is DW, it sells better than their other stuff. Period. They would not twice say it's not a DW spin-off and then say it's not part of the "DW world" unless they meant it.

To suggest that there is a more direct confirmation than David Richardson saying, "it's not a DW spin-off" is, as I said above, ridiculous.

This is a dead cert.