Doctor Who officially commisioned for 52 new episodes!!

[Rich Watson]

Blue Zoo Animation Studio wins pitch to produce Doctor Who CBeebies animation

It marks the first time the ‘Whoniverse’ has been expanded into an animated series for pre-school audiences.

www.bbc.co.uk

Hey, at least it shows commitment to the brand.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Nice clickbait.

As for this news, nice to read even though we haven't even seen any of the show yet.

 

[Starkers]

As I said when this was first mooted, this is potentially a brilliant idea. Snag kids when they're really young and hopefully that's a ready made audience for the parent show once they're old enough to watch it.

 

[Saul]

Doctor Who officially commisioned for 52 new episodes!!

Not impressed.

 

[David cgc]

Well, based on the RFP, it sounded like the BBC was looking for something a little more involved than every episode consisting of spinning a wheel to find which themed object matched a themed asteroid that was going to hit in exactly... four minutes, so best wishes to them.

 

[JD]

This is one franchise I can easily being turned into something pre-schooler friendly. I haven't watched them, but hopefully this will be something along the lines of the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Iron Man and His Awesome Friends, and Young Jedi Adventures, which from what I've seen look pretty good for pre-school shows, and not Star Trek Scouts.

 

[Danlav05]

Weirdly with toys etc commercially A CBeebies cartoon could be the most successful and recognised Doctor WHO since, what, the 50th?!

 

[Orac]

As I said when this was first mooted, this is potentially a brilliant idea. Snag kids when they're really young and hopefully that's a ready made audience for the parent show once they're old enough to watch it.

Sounds like a strategy for pushing drugs not a 6 decade old telly programme.

I guess it works for computer games.

 

[Set Harth]

Sounds like a strategy for pushing drugs

Or ideologies.

 

[Starkers]

FFS

 

[Qonundrum]

DW used to appeal to more "children of all ages", which didn't need to be put onto niche preschool channel to fit the revamped tone of the latest era (which does, I know people who love it, I know others who loathe it, and others in between. Whee.) To think the show in the 60s and 70s treated kids a lot differently than now, and they loved it for whatever appealed to them and rewatched to understand what adults often saw at the time back then. The claim that it's to get kids in younger makes no immediate sense when the show was doing that since day one (1963). (Or what's what I keep reading and hearing on fan channels)

 

[Qonundrum]

Weirdly with toys etc commercially A CBeebies cartoon could be the most successful and recognised Doctor WHO since, what, the 50th?!

If it's the DW equivalent to "Star Trek Prodigy" then it might? No way to say right now how it will be. After the spectacular presentation of "Space Babies", it's impossible to say.

 

[Elder Knight]

At the rate of recent production, 52 episodes would be six or seven seasons spread over ten or eleven years!

 

[JD]

DW used to appeal to more "children of all ages", which didn't need to be put onto niche preschool channel to fit the revamped tone of the latest era (which does, I know people who love it, I know others who loathe it, and others in between. Whee.) To think the show in the 60s and 70s treated kids a lot differently than now, and they loved it for whatever appealed to them and rewatched to understand what adults often saw at the time back then. The claim that it's to get kids in younger makes no immediate sense when the show was doing that since day one (1963). (Or what's what I keep reading and hearing on fan channels)

Was the show really geared toward preschoolers? I was under impression it was always geared towards older kids, it was never Sesame Street, or Barney, or Blues Clues.