Just came across this post from RTD on Instagram. I was delighted to see the Dimensions in Time clip and love when these things of questionable continuity get shown on the show, like the Shalka Doctor in Rogue, The Morbius Doctors in The Timeless Children.
DiT is a ridiculously 20 minutes but I’m glad it has been shown some love.
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It’s so silly when the last week the official website said it’s not canon 
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I’ll admit, enough of questionable continuity has been shown on the screen that I’d really like to see a glimpse of the Rowan Atkinson Doctor in the main series…
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Id do anything for this
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It’s a good job Doctor Who doesn’t have a canon otherwise all this would get rather silly.
Thankfully, everything and anything can be part of the show if we want it to be.
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I still love the Shalka cameo it’s so funny
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I mean I don’t like Dimensions in Time at all, even as a 9 year old who’d waited half his life for new Doctor Who it was RUBBISH to me.
But it’s really rather heartening seeing the showrunner saying he wanted to bring it in from the cold. I really like that.
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Finally some good news. No DiT isn’t really that good, but it’s fun and quirky and why not. There is worse DW in the main show and DiT is camp as hell. I happily consider it canon.
Although yeah the DW website team should have been told it was considered canon before publishing that article on the Rani, but I wonder if RTD wanted it kept a secret?
This isn’t the first time though that he’s wanted to pull some onscreen oddity into the main universe. I remember reading he originally wanted to use a clip from Downtime in something TSA related, but was shot down. But he apparently considers that canon as well.
RTD is so fascinating in what he just outright chooses to ignore, rewrite, repurpose, and confirm as canon. Like others said it’s good that DW just doesn’t have a canon. Blame it on the Time Wars. All of them. Lol
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Say what you will about RTD but his love for the show is undeniable honestly
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Just like every other producer/script editor/showrunner/writer from across the show’s long history on screen and off, really…
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Couldn’t it still be the Great Intelligence that had a splinter in the Doctor’s mind that Clara didn’t find?
Or the Curse of Fatal Death 10th Doctor?
It looks like the hologram in Rogue is missing the sideburns of the Shalka Doctor…
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Oh how wonderful an interaction that is! Lovely to see some benefit to social media, finally, haha.
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You got me there. And it will be like that for every franchise for time immemorial. Lol
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There’s so much strange continuity on this show lol it wouldn’t be too odd for this to be considered canon. But I hereby decree that it is IS canon because I love seeing 6 and the Brigadier together also 3 and Victoria 
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If I had a Nickel for everytime RTD2 showed something DiT related, I’d have two Nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s odd it happened twice.
But seriously, rather or not somebody may or may not like Dimensions in Time, it being referenced in the Main Show is very funny to me. Like yeah sure what the heck Albert Square is both fictional and real at the same Time in the World of Who.
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Yeah, the Rani was in Dimensions in Time blah blah blah.
What we really need is Cyrian appearing in tomorrow’s episode.
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In the words of Warren Frey of Radio Free Skaro, there’s no such thing as official pretend.
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Either in Tales of The Tardis or Power of the Doctor, Seven and Ace talk about her leaving soon after facing the Rani.
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