In fairness, it did stagger on for a bit after that but...
Jodie is back for next year.
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There will be no Dr who in 2019 aside from the New years day special
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1071846154026004484
Does it feel like the show is running on fumes now? Not even a new doctor can reinvigorate it.
2020 will probably be Jodies last season for all we know with 2020 Christmas special having her bow out.
Seems like we just keep getting less and less every few years. We have 10 episodes now and more breaks.
https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1071846154026004484
Does it feel like the show is running on fumes now? Not even a new doctor can reinvigorate it.
2020 will probably be Jodies last season for all we know with 2020 Christmas special having her bow out.
Seems like we just keep getting less and less every few years. We have 10 episodes now and more breaks.
I don’t know.
Instead of 10 months, we’ll wait 12 months for the new series. Doesn’t make that much of a difference, really.
That sucks, but least this confirms that Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill and Tosin Cole are all returning (per the BBC press release), so that's something at least.
I really like this TARDIS team, so all three of them returning makes me happy.
Yup, same here! Now that Graham has had his big character arc this series, hopefully Yaz can get more focus next series.
No. The ratings are higher than they have been in years. So... it has been reinvigorated.
What makes you say that?
There have been breaks before. And the show continued.
10 episodes for a BBC show sounds like a lot!
Hell, that's more episodes than Game of Thrones last season.
But by "next year...." Turns out the New Year special *is* the only episode in 2018, unless they make a Xmas special.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46501393
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46501393
Jax is British, so I'm sure he is aware of that.
Red Dwarf has had 12 series, averaging around six or eight half-hour episodes each, in 30 years. Doctor Who had one TV movie to tide fans over between 1989 and 2005. Something tells me we'll get through this.
It's annoying and suggests everyone involved are struggling to get all their ducks in a row. At least no one can blame Moffat this time (sure someone will) and at least it isn't a huge gap all things considered, just odd that they bring the show back with a new Doctor, get great ratings then put on the brakes.
I don;t know if the issue is budget, timecales, Chibnall demanding more time, the BBC demanding a difference time slot, Bradley having to film 486 episodes of the Chase...
This also suggests to me that we might not even get a NYD episode oin 2020, I mean if you're budgeting for one you might as well pull it back to Christmas Day or even Boxing Day so you can at least argue there's two episodes in 2019.
Also worrying that even with a truncated number of episodes and a new production team they're still struggling to meet an annual schedule. And yes we've had these sorts of gaps before, but the TV landscape is changing. Netflix will make dozens of shows in the time to takes Who to return.
I don;t know if the issue is budget, timecales, Chibnall demanding more time, the BBC demanding a difference time slot, Bradley having to film 486 episodes of the Chase...
This also suggests to me that we might not even get a NYD episode oin 2020, I mean if you're budgeting for one you might as well pull it back to Christmas Day or even Boxing Day so you can at least argue there's two episodes in 2019.
Also worrying that even with a truncated number of episodes and a new production team they're still struggling to meet an annual schedule. And yes we've had these sorts of gaps before, but the TV landscape is changing. Netflix will make dozens of shows in the time to takes Who to return.
Somebody on FB raised a good (and surprising) point - they may have been having to work around Bradley Walsh's schedule. For non-UK viewers, he currently hosts three game shows and a Sunday night variety show, so he's kind of in demand...
There were more than fifteen months between seasons one and two of Stranger Things, with the gap between two and three looking to be even longer than that, and that's with only 8-9 episodes per season. Furthermore, between seasons two and three of Daredevil, there were nineteen months, fifteen months between seasons one and two of Jessica Jones, and a whooping 21 months between seasons one and two of Luke Cage. So, no, Netflix doesn't work any faster.
That wasn't so much my point. My point is that the market is saturated. It isn't how much of a gap there is between Netflix shows, it's about how many different Netflix (et al) shows are being churned out. The pond is getting bigger and Doctor Who seems to be becoming a smaller fish in it.
To be fair, there was the Defenders series in between the solo series.
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