“Everyone is welcome at CBeebies, including the Doctor,” the BBC’s Director of Children’s and Education said in a statement provided via press release. “This much-loved franchise entertains millions around the world, so it is only right that our younger audience get to experience the wonder and the magic of the Doctor in a brand new format. ”

The Doctor Who tardis is heading to BBC pre-school channel CBeebies. The BBC has announced the next stage in the expansion of its Whoniverse, a pre-school animation version of its big-selling IP, which just wrapped second season under returned showrunner Russell T. Davies.

There's even more changes in store coming to the "Doctor Who" universe — or Whoniverse, rather — this time in the form of an animated preschool series. The CBeebies show "will see the Doctor traveling through time and space for the pre-school audience,