Jane Tranter has revealed the present TARDIS Console room was dismantled over the summer
An incredible console room. So sad to see it gone.
I always hoped it would eventually get similar treatment as Smith's second console room to Capaldi's version, which got a heavy lived in make-over.
It looked great at first, but then you find yourself remembering how little actually happens in there.
So much effort and money for a cool visual that historically — well, you needed a few props and some flats.
Budget conscious next lot should consider that option. Not least as with the flats you can do a lot more Tardis stuff, and that gives you bottle show options that sometimes save the bacon. (Moffat got plenty of webisodes out of his Tardis sets too)
So much effort and money for a cool visual that historically — well, you needed a few props and some flats.
Budget conscious next lot should consider that option. Not least as with the flats you can do a lot more Tardis stuff, and that gives you bottle show options that sometimes save the bacon. (Moffat got plenty of webisodes out of his Tardis sets too)
That feels like a metaphor for their two eras.
Capaldi's console room was complicated, a bit scruffy, and it filled up with stuff reflecting the Doctor's personality as he figured himself out. The bookcases, the blackboard full of equations, the electric guitar. It even had a chair!
Gatwa's console room made an amazing first impression, with its sheer size and its array of programmable lights. It was just a really well built set, and they even threw in a jukebox for some reason. Which never got used. But then the episodes went on, and it remained this big empty sterile room. They tried to give the Doctor some development by saying he should get a chair, but he never got one. It was ultimately just an impressive background, not a room for the actors to do anything in.
And it just made any scene shot in it look strangely sterile. It felt like they had the budget to do it so they did it, even though they had no real need of it? I'm not beholden to a classic console room, I really liked Eccleston/Tennant's to be honest, and the Gatwa one was an improvement over Whittaker's awful one, but it was just such a waste of time/space and budget.
Yeah, it was just two big and empty. I've liked most of the other New Series console rooms, and the overall look of the last one was cool, it was just to big and empty.
Scrolling through my Instagram feed and came across a local musician giving an interview at one of Seattle's local record stores and he was wearing a Melkur t-shirt from The Keeper of Traken.
That's something you don't see every day.
That's something you don't see every day.
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its still boggles my mind how the entire doctor who audios paperbacks hardcovers and comics worlds since 1963 is still alive and kicking while doctor who on tv got somewhat cancelled aka axed after doctor who 2023 season 3 aka doctor who 2005 season 15 ended
Personally speaking... It makes me mad and sad that just as the show got good/exciting again, just as I finally got back to it after five long years of void and awfulness, that it just stopped. And during probably the most turbulent, radical politically period of our lives, also! Was it flawless? No, but what era of the show ever is?
Is this how fans felt after 1989? Finally a good version of the program (season 25-26) after a long stretch where it felt unsatisfactory?
Fuckin' Disney, and Fuckin' Beeb!
Is this how fans felt after 1989? Finally a good version of the program (season 25-26) after a long stretch where it felt unsatisfactory?
Fuckin' Disney, and Fuckin' Beeb!
Basically, yeah.
83 was a high point, but 88 was the renaissance.
Even the merch had picked up again with a couple of 25th Anniversary bits and bobs, and bubble bath and slippers and a new action figure range we hadn’t had since Tom, music releases…
Luckily that continued on way.
I may not agree about RTD2 but I can see your sentiment as it were.
We were luckier than you on that JNT and Cartmel didn’t slap a fade to whoosh quantel effect and surprise regeneration on the end of survival.
I wonder who got the jukebox ? XD
It hasn’t been cancelled. It’s in the process of tender right now. Ie: they are continuing to make it.
So you can unblow your mind back to how it was before.
Not cancelled but not in production
Which makes it no different to much of what is on TV.
Severance season 3 only went into active production in July 2026 after airing a second season in 2025. It wasn’t cancelled in the interim.
Cancelled is like Lower Decks, SNW or SFA. No more coming, full stop.
Just like in 1989, the show is currently on hiatus. How long that hiatus lasts remains to be seen. Hopefully it'll be quicker than that particular interregnum, but to be completely honest, I have a feeling it's likely to be more than a few years yet.
This gets thrown around a lot, but the situation is so, so different to what it was in 1989. I never want to patronise and you're a clever fella, but I'm not sure how deep your Who knowledge is? If you really want me to break down why it's different I could go 500-1000 words if you like? :-)
The tender document clearly states they are looking at a 2028/29 launch.
The question will then be whether they actually progress. BBC has just made a pile more redundancies, and there's rumours about closing entire channels
www.bbc.co.uk
deadline.com
www.theguardian.com
Whether there would be money left for doctor who, or indeed if the BBC will stille xist in 2028/29, is anyone's guess. I'll believe it when I see it on air.
Some BBC channels and radio stations 'may well' have to close, director general says
The BBC's financial situation "may well mean" some channels and stations close, Matt Brittin says.
www.bbc.co.uk
BBC Cuts: Around 150 Tech Staff Expected To Take Voluntary Redundancy
Around 151 employees are set to exit BBC Media Tech, the unit that helps power online services including iPlayer and BBC Sounds.
deadline.com
BBC to axe sports bulletins on its TV news channel
Cuts are part of plan to save £500m and lose as many as 2,000 staff by 2028
www.theguardian.com
Whether there would be money left for doctor who, or indeed if the BBC will stille xist in 2028/29, is anyone's guess. I'll believe it when I see it on air.
Thing is the BBC are being very clear about things they're not funding going forward and which things they're axing. Dr Who is not one of them.
I know people like to imagine a conspiracy theory whereby the BBC, presumably fearful of fan rage, are trying to let Who quietly slip away rather than specifically axing it, but frankly I don't think the BBC give two shits if the fans are annoyed.
Every bit of information we're getting implies the BBC see Dr Who as a valuable commodity going forward.
I know people like to imagine a conspiracy theory whereby the BBC, presumably fearful of fan rage, are trying to let Who quietly slip away rather than specifically axing it, but frankly I don't think the BBC give two shits if the fans are annoyed.
Every bit of information we're getting implies the BBC see Dr Who as a valuable commodity going forward.
- The introduction of a new animated Dr Who show on CBeebies (starting next year I believe?)
- The official tender process/documents.
- Multiple positive references to Who and TWBTLATS in the most recent BBC annual report.
