Season Six and Seven: Spring/Autumn 2011

[davejames]

I'm okay with the idea. There would be less of a wait between series, and with a shorter run (and giant cliff-hangers halfway through) the writers will hopefully feel the need to make each series a little stronger and more focused than usual.

With the current 13-episode run, it seems like that focus always started to get lost a bit in the middle.

 

[Starkers]

Really don't know what to feel about this. I can't help feeling that since the end of Series 4 the BBC/RTD/Moffat just seem to have gone out of their way to muck around with the series schedule. First the specials, then last year with the show never on the same time twice, now this?

On the plus side it means shorter spells with no Who, which can only be a good thing!

As for the rumour about Amy, I hope not I'm actually hoping that she and Rory choose to leave the Doc, or else he's forced to leave them ala Sarah Jane.

 

[Shatnertage]

i bet that Sun story's a load of bollocks as usual. you could just as easily speculate Rory's going to be killed off (again) in the cliffhanger or that Rose is coming back or Adric is or any bloody damn thing.

I wonder if GB is already filled with posts that the "game-changing cliffhanger" will be the revelation that Amy is a fobwatched Rani... That seems to be about all that that section of fandom is capable of imagining.

Oh, I hope not. And if it's true, I hope she doesn't start turning people into trees.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I wonder if GB is already filled with posts that the "game-changing cliffhanger" will be the revelation that Amy is a fobwatched Rani... That seems to be about all that that section of fandom is capable of imagining.

Utter insanity!

She's really a fobwatched Romana

Now that's thinking outside the box right there.

 

[Candlelight]

If they're part of the same production block then I would still call them Season Six.

If the remaining six episodes were filmed later in the year, it's Season Six and Seven.

Not quite. Airng order of a show and the Production order of a show are not always the same. A good example of this is Futurama when it was shown on Fox. It had a production run of four seasons yet Fox aired five. This was done by saving episodes and showing them the next season. Infact Fox's season five was a comination of production season three and four. They also changed the viewing order of the episodes. When it was released on DVD the original four season production order was restored. To complicate matters some shows when released on DVD/Blu-ray retain the production order while others retain the original aring order.

Usually for the international market, the production order is retained. Futurama was only ever four seasons in New Zealand, Star Trek Voyager had 20 episodes in the first season instead of 16, etc.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm still thinking the game changing cliffhanger will have River in it...her quote from the finale is still fresh in my mind. If this is what they plan on doing for next series so be it. I'd like it all in one go as well, especially considering that we were forced to wait several months in between the specials for series four and another four months or so before series five. This doesn't change my excitement level though.

 

[Cutter John]

I guess I can live with it being spread out. Those loooong waits between series were a killer.

And hopefully it'll fix the ratings problem. I kinda got sick of hearing "Numbers were down this week because it was a sunny day on Saturday" this last series.

Plus no more worrying about the bloody World Cup or Britains Got Talent.

 

[Starkers]

Yes we just have to worry about the X-Factor or Strictly now Plus I wonder what this means for any potential fourth season of Merlin!

 

[Lonemagpie]

Yes we just have to worry about the X-Factor or Strictly now Plus I wonder what this means for any potential fourth season of Merlin!

I happen to know that Tony Head has a hectic filming schedule for something in Feb/March - the thought occurs that they could bring Merlin forward to run over the summer, between the two halves of DW...

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Yes we just have to worry about the X-Factor or Strictly now Plus I wonder what this means for any potential fourth season of Merlin!

I happen to know that Tony Head has a hectic filming schedule for something in Feb/March - the thought occurs that they could bring Merlin forward to run over the summer, between the two halves of DW...

I was under the impression that Tony Head was leaving Merlin at the end of (or during) the third season. He's said he's not going to be with the series during its entire run; given the premise for the third season, Uther's death and Arthur's ascension to Camelot's throne and a struggle for High Kingship over all Britain would make for a season-spanning storyline.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Yes we just have to worry about the X-Factor or Strictly now Plus I wonder what this means for any potential fourth season of Merlin!

I happen to know that Tony Head has a hectic filming schedule for something in Feb/March - the thought occurs that they could bring Merlin forward to run over the summer, between the two halves of DW...

I was under the impression that Tony Head was leaving Merlin at the end of (or during) the third season. He's said he's not going to be with the series during its entire run; given the premise for the third season, Uther's death and Arthur's ascension to Camelot's throne and a struggle for High Kingship over all Britain would make for a season-spanning storyline.

Then I guess he's not out of work for long...

I wonder if there's time to drop an email to the Sun claiming that Matt Smith is leaving in the episode 7 cliffhanger, and Tony's the new Doctor?

 

[Starkers]

Ha ha, go for it!

Good idea about Merlin sitting between the two halves of Who...

 

[HappyDayRiot]

Indeed. And it all fits so seemlessly together - what could be more of a cliffhanger than the Doctor getting stuck in mediaeval England and forced to take on the role of Merlin, whose adventures we, the audience, then follow for 13 weeks before Amy and Rory rescue him in episode 7?

The Doctor being Merlin. Now there's an idea so stupid I'll bet no one has ever thought of it before, much less implied it to be so in a previous epis... oh.

 

[Starkers]

Maybe Karen could guest star in Merlin...ooh I dunno, possibly in an episode featuring the return of Morgeuse? (Actually I don't know if I could deal with that, I might overload!)

 

[Whofan]

^Wasn't Eve Myles (Gwyneth & Gwen) in Merlin at some point?

 

[captcalhoun]

season 1, episode 1.

Colin Morgan (Merlin) was in Midnight and Richard was in some two parter of season 1 that introduced some minor character no one cared for.

 

[Starkers]

season 1, episode 1.

Colin Morgan (Merlin) was in Midnight and Richard was in some two parter of season 1 that introduced some minor character no one cared for.

Oh come on now that's unfair. I thought Dr Constantine was great

 

[Csalem]

season 1, episode 1.

Colin Morgan (Merlin) was in Midnight and Richard was in some two parter of season 1 that introduced some minor character no one cared for.

Indeed. Whatever happened to that American?

 

[Jax]

I am a bit late to the thread but its not been stated the BBC consider these two seperate seasons no matter how Moffat may word it ? They will be filmed like any normal season with 13 episodes followed by an X mas themed episode.

Far as we know BBC consider it all 1 season? It seems daft to be called six and seven. The DVD will surley be a normal 13 collection?

 

[The Wormhole]

The DVD will surley be a normal 13 collection?

I wouldn't be so sure. Half-season sets are becoming increasingly popular among American shows, so it souldn't surprise me to see the same thing for the 2011 episodes of Doctor Who.

They'll likely want to release the first half on DVD just before the second half airs as a means of building hype.