I can assure you that none of us thought you were talking out of your hat.
Series 11 News & Spoilers
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I can assure you that none of us thought you were talking out of your hat.
I preferred the CG this year. In the episodes I saw anyway. It was pleasantly filmic, and blended nicely. Though...I hear they changed from the Mill, to the BR2049 team?
So there may be a little unconscious bias on my part.
It hasn't been the Mill for years, in fact The Mill shut down their TV business years ago.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mill-plans-close-mill-tv-431551
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mill-plans-close-mill-tv-431551
I thought they kept the staff under a different name though?
Ah well.
Next you will tell me mike tucker doesn’t do the models anymore....
Someone call the Doctor, because these goalposts keep moving!
Really? Where?
To be fair Moffat struggled more than RTD which suggests the norm is that it's tricky to produce a season a year and that RTD was the outlier!
Really it comes down to when series 12 gets aired. If it's March 2020 then we're only talking a gap of 14 months between the episodes, if it's September on the other hand you're talking a 20 month gap! The impression seems to be its the former so fingers crossed.
Very true, I think there's been far fewer present day Earth stories under Chibnall.
Since when was RTD a sit-com writer?
Also "resting the show" was RTD's idea, he thought it would keep up interest in the show.
Also, also Chris Chibnall was basically in charge of Torchwood for the first 2 series (as rubbish as they were), Camelot, Law & Order UK and Broadchurch, plus Gracepoint). Camelot and Gracepoint being an American show, which presumably means he's had experience of an American schedule, and Law and Order and Broadchurch means he's had hits in his own right.
I expect Series 12 to be in early 2020. March might even be late. And I wouldn't rule out entirely a Christmas/New Years 2019/2020 episode, because that's a decision that would be made by the Beeb much later in 2019.
I think people who expect a September 2020 debut haven't been paying attention to the production schedule.
The one thing I'm curious about in 2019 -- and I've seen no discussion of it -- is whether or not BBC Books will publish more novels about thirteen and crew, returning to the tie-in model of the RTD years rather than the de-emphasized Moffat years. To keep the new Doctor "fresh" in the eyes of especially the younger fans, publishing three novels in spring 2019 and three in autumn would be a very good idea.
That or they're knee-jerk doomsayers who are quick to anger and irrational thought.
Why not both? Ignorant about television production and reactionary doomsayers.
The fact of the matter is, it's not a good look either way.
At this point, I think they're on an ice hockey pitch in Canada.
Been wondering that one myself. I see no reason why there can't be new novels this year, IIRC the reason there weren't new NSAs in 2016 was because by the time Moffat agreed to stay on, it was already too late to sign off on approvals. There should be no such roadblock for 2019.
Yeah, I almost said "and/or" but then changed it to "or." I guess I was giving them too much credit.Why not both? Ignorant about television production and reactionary doomsayers.
The fact of the matter is, it's not a good look either way.
I was thinking more of the 2012-2013 period, where we had one hardcover Eleven novel in early 2012 (Jenny Colgan's Dark Horizons) and three Eleven/Clara novels in late 2013. Moffat didn't view the novels as important and BBC Books found him very difficult to deal with. I'm curious if Chibnall views the Doctor Who novels differently than Moffat did and if his relationship with BBC Books is better than their relationship with Moffat.
To be fair he had a lot more budget cuts when it came to his turn, he had to make it work, he had to split seasons and make up some excuse to cover it.
What budget cuts? BBC-A was co-funding at that point.
The BBC had a budget cut, BBC One's overall budget dropped by almost £500m. BBC America may have been co-producing but CBC had been co-producing before that.
I think BBC Worldwide is co-funding to some extent, it’s pretty popular all over the world.
