I thought it was going to be called Series 7 in the fall?
US fans - New episodes start April 23
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I thought it was going to be called Series 7 in the fall?
I don't care what the official terminology will be, they can call it Fnarg's brother for all I care. It basically is one season split up. At the end of the year we're still going to have 13 episodes plus a Christmas special. Therefore I'll refer to the summer hiatus as a mid-season break, and will continue to do so.
This is great news.
*You missed out Season 19, The Five Doctors, The TV Movie and Season 11 if you lived in Wales (which seems to be why Invasion of the Dinosaurs went missing for a bit - BBC Cardiff got sent the tapes to run later in the week and they went AWOL on the way back).
;-)
Doctor Who, Corrie & BFGW, that would be quite a weekend.
They're probably afraid Channel 4 will air my big fat gypsy wedding opposite it if they do!
I do wish they'd be a bit more open with start dates, it's really frickin annoying!
Well, ITV have already announced a Coronation Street Easter Special to air on Easter Sunday.
Nice. It would be great to know when the ABC will screen here in Australia.
Yeah. Considering it still adds up to a mere 13 episodes aired in a 12 month period, it sounds like just one season to me with a mid-season hiatus. Calling it a separate season just seems asinine to me.
BTW, what was the occasion for airing the "Waters of Mars" special? Most of them have been Christmas specials. "Planet of the Dead" was an Easter special. "The End of Time, Part 2" was on New Year's. But was there a particular holiday that the air date of "Waters of Mars" corresponded to?
Do they do Halloween in the U.K.?
Of course we do...of course gone are the days when we call it Mischief Night, and it is more of an American Halloween than All Hallow's Eve...but we do do it...
And WoM came on towards the end of November...in fact I think it aired on the same day (but obviously not year) that the story was set. Nov 21st rings a bell but I might be well out.
That's what I figured, that at the very least a great deal of Britain's current Halloween is imported/copied from the American version. Around when did that transition from the British "Mischief Night/All Hallow's Eve" to the American "Halloween" occur?
And you still don't have Thanksgiving, right? Is that still strictly an American/Canadian thing?
It aired a week away from the date it's set, but only 'cause the airdate got shifted after filming.
It was originally supposed to be the Christmas special, with the big Tennant finale two parter airing on New Year's Day and in Spring 2010 (the week before "The Eleventh Hour"), but they decided they wanted more of a gap between Tennant and Smith, so everything got moved backwards. "Christmas on Mars" (as it was called then) nearly just got removed at that point, but Davies came up with the "Time Lord Victorious" angle and decided to set the stage for the two-parter with it.
^At least maybe that explains why "Waters of Mars" seems to be all that build-up for such a small pay-off with the Doctor going kinda bad for all of 2 minutes.
I don't know why it takes Space so long to announce stuff like this. They should follow suit once the American air date is known.
^^Since the British airdate hasn't been announced yet, maybe Space is just waiting for that?
^ They usually don't base it on that though. Recently it's been when the BBC America date is released.
Halloween is celebrated in the UK and is sort-of parcelled up Guy Fawkes night. And yes, the intention was to show The Waters if Mars around that time... so why they showed it a couple of weeks later is anyone's guess.
But another point to mention is that the Saturday slot wasn't available because Merlin was in the middle of it's second series and being shown in the Saturday evening 'Doctor Who' slot.
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