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The latest series (AUDIO: Dead Ringers - 17th May [+]Loading...["Dead Ringers - 17th May (audio story)"]) of a well-known series, which normally featured the Doctor's TARDIS and the Daleks, (AUDIO: Dead Ringers - 31st May [+]Loading...["Dead Ringers - 31st May (audio story)"]) had no Daleks, but did feature several musical numbers, which the Fifteenth Doctor himself believed were meant to "pad [those] episode[s] out".
The Doctor chased the Daleks down, demanding answers. They explained that they could not fight him in the current series because he is now a gay black man, and they are afraid of getting "cancelled" by the "woke mob"; some of whom would even discuss it on Twitter.
In the end, they finally relented, agreeing to exterminate the Doctor, but only so long as no one would know. When he cited poor ratings figures for this series, the Daleks began chanting "exterminate", and fired at him. (AUDIO: Dead Ringers - 17th May [+]Loading...["Dead Ringers - 17th May (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes
The 2024 series, otherwise known as season 1, did indeed have multiple musical numbers, in TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"] and TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], and notably did not feature any Daleks.
The claims about ratings (in the streaming age) and episodes being "padded out" (when many had significant moments cut out, in fact) can be disputed.
Later references
In the following Doctor Who-related sketch, Dead Ringers - 31st May [+]Loading...["Dead Ringers - 31st May (audio story)"], the Daleks again discuss the series in-universe, and vaporise 17-year-old Ryan for not liking the episodes with the Daleks in them, since they're "rubbish aliens". He much prefers the design of the Borg.