2012 episodes to be across one week?
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Hmm, well I have to say in terms of a limited amount of episodes, I felt CoE had more of an impact across five days, than the Who specials just tossed throughout the year. Children of Earth was incredibly good though which no doubt helped! I can't quite see Who working in the same way, I mean they aren't going to show it at 9pm are they, so they'd have to go with a 7 o'clock timeslot monday to Saturday maybe?
I'd rather have a week of episodes than another Specials debacle, but my prefered choice would be for what we've just had. 6 or 7 episodes over 6 or 7 Saturdays.
I'd rather have a week of episodes than another Specials debacle, but my prefered choice would be for what we've just had. 6 or 7 episodes over 6 or 7 Saturdays.
Given that the only part of their original story that was disputed by anyone at the BBC was that it'd be part of a Full Series in 2012 rather than just Specials I certainly wouldn't dismiss this out of hand. But would they really take 'The One Show' off for a week and bump 'Eastenders', though.
I recall that the 2009 Specials vastly reduced the amount of merchandise on sale that year, so I'd imagine five episodes in a week plus the Christmas Special would have the same effect.
I recall that the 2009 Specials vastly reduced the amount of merchandise on sale that year, so I'd imagine five episodes in a week plus the Christmas Special would have the same effect.
That's counter-intuitive and therefore highly unlikely - "demand will drop so we'll reduce it further"? No, can't see that. and the BBC just doesn't schedule this far ahead...
This is Private Eye feeling vindicated and deciding to see how far they can stir things.
I'd tend to agree, but common sense doesn't always prevail in these sorts of things.
If the production team are planning only four or five episodes for 2012, then I could see taking this approach-- airing them over three to four weeks isn't going to create much more of an impact (or more "demand") than airing them over one, and it allows for hyping as an "event" something that would otherwise be a lame miniature run. It's something they might debate, anyway, which is all the article says is happening. Or, obviously, this could all be so much bollocks.
Of course, people fell over themselves declaring that there was no truth whatsover in their original story, when all they got "wrong"* was the designation of the handful of episodes to be screened in 2012.
If you can only have five episodes (plus an Xmas Special) of DW in a year, one way to go would be to make it a "big event" mini-series.
*And it doesn't seem unreasonable to think that the idea of doing Specials was mooted at some point.
I could get behind a week long "event" series. It worked for COE, it could work for Who as well. I wonder if true these episodes would be serialized or part an arc like COE?
It'd have to be one story, which could be promoted as a Big Event, otherwise it would look like they were rushing through the episodes just to get rid of them.
Yeah, it worked for COE that way, but DW's a different beast...
Considering that Moffat likes weaving his story arcs over the length of an entire series I don't see how a serialized week long event would be any different.
Or "The Return of Harold Saxon." 
Sounds like the stuff of internet rumors to me.
Like I said, that's what people said about their first story too.
And there's been a distinct lack of anyone at the BBC, even Moffat, defending or refuting the accusations of mismanagement of Series 5 & 6 by Wenger and Willis leading to the current situation.
The more I think about this -- and, I have to admit, I am intrigued at what a five-night Doctor Who event would be like, even if I'm not convinced that Moffat is the writer to pull it off -- the more I think that an epic Dalek story would be the way to go.The Daleks' Master Plan II...
Think about it. Autumn 2012, and the Daleks won't have been seen for two and a half years. If anything would be "Must See Television" for Doctor Who, five nights of the ultimate Dalek story would be it.
has everyone forgotten that Private Eye is a (supposedly) satirical magazine and therefore could just be taking the piss?
Why ruin such a good streak though?
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