Doctor Who will get some new executive producers in new season.

[Snick27]

"Both Piers Wegner and Beth Willis are reportedly out as executive producers after just two seasons, but this could be a good thing rather than a bad one, because it's Wegner's reign that apparently has created many of "Doctor Who's" current problems in the first place.
Wegner, who was the corporate showrunner for "Doctor Who" (while Steven Moffat ran things on the creative side), apparently allowed budgets for each episode to spiral out of control, according to a new report from Wales Online. On top of that, Wegner's management style hastened the exit of many long-time crewmembers for the show, making it difficult to keep all the talent that has made "Doctor Who" a success since its return in 2005."

Beth Willis in Picture. Very hot.

 

[ThankQ]

What are Doctor Whos current problems?

 

[Mr Light]

While I don't DISlike the new direction, I wouldn't be completely adverse to a little change, either.

 

[Rowan Sjet]

Ok.

1. No link to the original source, or any at all, so there's nothing whatsoever backing up any of the claims in the OP
2. It was already reported last year that Beth Willis was leaving then and yet she's still here :boggle:
3. She is indeed fairly good eye candy in the confidentials she pops up in

 

[Snick27]

Ok.

1. No link to the original source, or any at all, so there's nothing whatsoever backing up any of the claims in the OP
2. It was already reported last year that Beth Willis was leaving then and yet she's still here :boggle:
3. She is indeed fairly good eye candy in the confidentials she pops up in

Yeah sorry i thought i put that link in lol

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/8581

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Beth should be the next companion....yum!

I'm not sure we could blame the current "problems" on one executive producer though, but Who knows.

 

[Samurai8472]

Here she is at one of the first interviews for series 5 showing off the sonic screwdriver.

 

[Snick27]

Here she is at one of the first interviews for series 5 showing off the sonic screwdriver.

She looks so natural and happy with that Sonic.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ Look, it has three settings!

 

[Starkers]

I like her outfit...

On topic, well Wenger has left now, or is leaving isn't he/hasn't he? Gone to be head of Film 4 or something? Doubt he'll be missed. Not sure about Beth but maybe a clean broom (not Moffat) is needed.

I'm not sure, but the impression I always got was that the BBC put Willis and Wenger in place and Moffat didn't have much of a say in this, but I have no idea if that is completely 100% true.

 

[23skidoo]

I'm still waiting for someone to explain what "current problems" are being alleged. The only problems the show has as far as I'm aware is the BBC's decision to keep bouncing it around the schedule has caused it to take a hit in the "bums in seats" ratings as more people decided to turn to iPlayer and downloads or wait for the DVDs. I don't see that as a problem remembering the BBC does not rely on advertising. And meanwhile it's setting records in Canada and the US.

Would someone care to explain exactly what Wenger and Willis are accused of doing?

As for the report re: Willis, I'm treating it as bogus at the moment as no other source has indicated she's leaving (remembering the UK media gets things wrong about Doctor Who more often than right in cases like this, exhibit A being all the reports that David Tennant was signed for Series 5). I hope this isn't the case, though Sanne Wohlenberg would appear to be a natural replacement for either Beth or Piers.

Alex

 

[TedShatner10]

Problems? The last couple of years have been in some ways better, some ways worse than the previous RTD years, but there's never been any real creative/quality crisis and having producers come and go keeps the franchise evolving (I mean look what happened to Doctor Who in the 1980s and Star Trek in the mid 90s to mid 00s when head producers outstayed their welcome, their shows becoming tired).

 

[VDCNI]

The problems are supposed to be around massive budget overspends I thought.

No idea if they actually happened but that seems to be what keeps getting thrown around.

 

[StCoop]

And confirmed that Willis is gone now too.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/d...r-who-producer-beth-willis-to-leave-show.html

Hopefully the series will now get Producers of that calibre of Collinson and Gardner who knew how to manage the Budget and Schedule.

 

[StCoop]

The problems are supposed to be around massive budget overspends I thought.

No idea if they actually happened but that seems to be what keeps getting thrown around.

To quote Neil Gaiman. "They couldn't make my episode in Series 5 because the money had run out." (Actually there were two episodes that they couldn't make which were replaced by the cheap to shoot 'Amy's Choice' and 'The Lodger'.)

Other things like the reasons for the rapid departure of key behind-the-scenes people when they took over and exactly why Willis hired her boyfriend to shoot the episodes in Croatia, are up to individuals to decide how much weight they want on them.

At the end of the day people who claim to have inside knowledge have been saying that neither Wenger or Willis would make it to Series 7, or even remain in the BBC and they were right.

 

[diankra]

That's intesresting and fits with what I'd heard, that when (reportedly) the first blocks of the 2010 season had gone over budget, the BBC chiefs wanted Beth Willis to cancel the Croatia shoot in favour of somewhere cheaper, but she insisted in ploughing on with it.

 

[Samurai8472]

Another article

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/07/dwn070711121812-beth-willis-leaves.html?m=1

 

[StCoop]

Another article

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/07/dwn070711121812-beth-willis-leaves.html?m=1

The great thing about working in TV is as long you don't fuck up massively AND publicly people will always have nice things to say about you when you go because they know they might need you to hire them one day...

 

[Starkers]

Well if she did hire her boyfriend to film the Croatia episodes then kudos (ha ha) to her, given that means the director that did Vincent and the Doctor, right?

No worse than Moffat hiring his mates to write episodes I guess, or Russell hiring on the basis of fancying the pants off someone!

I think there is a whole lot of 'not what you know but who you know' goes off in the world of film and tv production, but frankly it goes on in a whole lot of walks of life.

 

[diankra]

Oh, I don't think anyone's implying there was anything untoward about hirign Johnny Campbell - he had done a lot of other shows well, and I'd assume they met because they were working together rather than the other way round.