Or so I'm seeing here and there, with people saying "first confirmed writer for series 9" without actually providing any links to such confirmation. But she did do four Torchwoods, and Law & Order UK, so I wouldn't be surprised.
Catherine Tregenna writing for series 9...?
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Here you go:
http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=MzQx
(It'll probably get deleted as these things tend to do...)
No doubt, the 'Moffat Can Do No Wrong' crowd will use the news to tell people to shut up going on about the lack of female writers but one in five years is hardly an impressive number in the 21st century.
Ah, well, even Stephen Fry's CV had an episode listed at one point, which never happened, so...
I'm hearing RTD is doing one this year as well. Which I'll believe when I see, as I gather they ask him every year...
I'm hearing RTD is doing one this year as well. Which I'll believe when I see, as I gather they ask him every year...
It ought to be real fun, if he did. His last Doctor episode, although a SJA episode, was rather good.
You don't need them, you seem quite capable of coming up with lines for both sides all by yourself.
To be fair the amount of stick that has been coming up recently about this, from people like Gaiman of all people, it doesn't surprise me. I'm not saying that that's the only reason she got the job of course, seeing as I don't know her or her work, but I can see them looking down the pile for the best or maybe the first woman they come across.
Don't worry, you can drown us out with your non-stop "THAT SEXIST BASTARD MOFFAT IS THE WORST THING EVER!!" rants.
This does mark the tenth anniversary of the show's return. Maybe they've convinced him to come back to do an episode honouring that.
Yeah, I know, the chances of that actually happening are as likely as Eccleston returning...
No, so equally unimpressive for RTD as well as Moffat then? Although I guess that was 4 not five years, and you'll likely throw in female Torchwood writers to widen the goalposts.
Anyway, a good thing if she's a good writer (and actually looking at the TW eps she wrote they were decent ones overall, as poor as the first season was Out of Time was ok and Captain Jack Harkness was one of the highlights)
I think it'd be very interesting to see RTD do an episode (but I've been saying that since he left.)
I don't think so. RTD actually likes Doctor Who.
And still watches it, apparently.
He likes being surprised by Doctor Who. Which is why he loved reading DWM's comic strip during his run; it was the only time he could experience a story with his Doctors that he didn't know how it was going to turn out.
That's why I don't really expect RTD to write for series 9. I think he'd love to write for Doctor Who again, but he'd lose the surprise.
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Didn't RTD write the SJA episode featuring the Eleventh Doctor (as well as Jo)?
He did. I think he wanted to write for the Eleventh Doctor at least once. By doing so we managed to get one more appearance of the Doctor with Sarah Jane, and Jo finally seeing the Doctor again.
Matt Smith also was able to bring out some of the qualities of the Third Doctor in his speech to Jo. He was rather good at making you believe he could be an old man with a young face, and with the right writer, even specific older Doctors.
Matt Smith also was able to bring out some of the qualities of the Third Doctor in his speech to Jo. He was rather good at making you believe he could be an old man with a young face, and with the right writer, even specific older Doctors.
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