How about a DW spin off akin to SJA?

[Ithekro]

The Adventures of the Impossible Girl. Staring Jenna Coleman.

Each week or every month we are introduced to another fragment of Clara broken off in the Doctor's Timestream. We get a bit of her life and some adventure she gets unto, or see what she does by fate to save the Doctor without him really knowing he was saved. The primary villian is the Great Intelligence, but also perhaps the Master/Missy (to give a reason for Missy to have picked Clara).

It could be run, instead of 45 minute episodes, run as 22 minute episodes in serial format like the old Doctor Who series in the 1970s. Each version of Clara gets a four to six episode story arc, and then we go on to the next Clara. Or just an episode or two per Clara. Computer insert footage of the first 11 Doctors might be standard or simply used to establish were this Clara is in relation to the Doctor (as oppose to where in Time and Space she is).

 

[JRoss]

@OP, I'm the guy who started the American Doctor thread, and it really was for something else. Nobody here really wants an American Doctor.

I'd recommend the Paternoster Gang, and they could have adventures with Jackson, Rosita and his son, as well as having Captain Jack show up. Only problem is that it wouldn't really be like SJA because you couldn't aim it at kids without a major overhaul.

Not because three of the above-mentioned characters are LGBT, but because they're so risque, gay or not. You're probably not going to have the same conversations on Saturday morning as you might post-watershed.

Either time slot, I'd watch it.

 

[Mr Light]

Rose was a fan favorite character?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'd recommend the Paternoster Gang, and they could have adventures with Jackson, Rosita and his son, as well as having Captain Jack show up.

Lake and Rosita would be old by the time of the Paternoster Gang. There's about forty years between "The Next Doctor" and "The Snowmen."

 

[Sindatur]

Rose was a fan favorite character?

Yup, and she still is, unless your definition is so narrow to only include those who review every episode, every week online, rather than simply the millions who watch Doctor Who every week.

Also, Season 1, even those who are regular online posters, who now don't have the best of opinion of her, were quite happy with her in Season 1.

It was when she and 10 were together and acting like giggling school girls in Season 2, that her popularity began to wane with regular online posters, and then of course, her return in Season 4, irritated that group even further

And it may be anecdotal evidence, but, from what I can see of real life general audience fans that watch religiously every week, Danny was quite popular this past Season, it's only the regular online posting community that has a bad taste in their mouth for him.

 

[Mr Awe]

^ No, many members of the general audience didn't like him either. At least the ones I know.

Mr Awe

 

[Professor Zoom]

^ No, many members of the general audience didn't like him either. At least the ones I know.

Mr Awe

Unless there's a poll, "the ones I know" isn't very convincing evidence.

Unless you know a LOT of people who are watching Doctor Who, it most likely isn't a good sample.

 

[Sindatur]

^ No, many members of the general audience didn't like him either. At least the ones I know.

Mr Awe

I did mention that I acknowledge it is anecdotal evidence. And it's true, a sample of 5 people isn't large, but, those 5 are all different in Demographics and Geography, and 100% of them liked Danny.

 

[Lakenheath 72]

Of the spin-offs, I know the first was DOA, the second was ended by the lead dying off, and the third sputtered into complete abject terribility. It seems the spin-offs are barely remembered, which seems the fate of many spin-offs. Very few are as successful or more successful than the parent show, ex. Frasier.

Personally, I think Danny had potential; however, he suffered from the "boyfriend who is in competition with the Doctor" syndrome that is a trademark of the new Doctor Who. I think that if they had written a believable backstory for this character, make this character's trauma the central focus of an episode (ex. "Ghost Light"), drop the trademark (see above), and have more time spent on this character, that I might feel more for his loss in the finale.

 

[The Wormhole]

I'd recommend the Paternoster Gang, and they could have adventures with Jackson, Rosita and his son, as well as having Captain Jack show up. Only problem is that it wouldn't really be like SJA because you couldn't aim it at kids without a major overhaul.

Not because three of the above-mentioned characters are LGBT, but because they're so risque, gay or not. You're probably not going to have the same conversations on Saturday morning as you might post-watershed.

What exactly about a Paternoster Gang show would require it to be post-watershed? Are they going to show Vastra and Jenny having sex? Will we see Strax using Sontaran weapons and/or combat skills to brutally wound or even kill his enemies?

I'm not saying such a show should be a children's show like SJA, or even family oriented like Doctor Who, but surely it can be an adult show without being post watershed, right?

Not that I have an issue with seeing sex, violence and swearing, but if you can do a show just fine without it, why not? Hardly any of Torchwood's graphic sex scenes really added anything to the show at all.

 

[Mr Awe]

^ No, many members of the general audience didn't like him either. At least the ones I know.

Mr Awe

Unless there's a poll, "the ones I know" isn't very convincing evidence.

Unless you know a LOT of people who are watching Doctor Who, it most likely isn't a good sample.

That's my point because apparently I know different people than the previous poster!

Mr Awe

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

That's my point because apparently I know different people than the previous poster!

Amazing. That could lead to a spinoff series all by itself.

 

[Mr Awe]

^ You must be easily entertained!

 

[Professor Zoom]

^ No, many members of the general audience didn't like him either. At least the ones I know.

Mr Awe

Unless there's a poll, "the ones I know" isn't very convincing evidence.

Unless you know a LOT of people who are watching Doctor Who, it most likely isn't a good sample.

That's my point because apparently I know different people than the previous poster!

Mr Awe

Right, makes sense. I guess I was responding to the "many" portion of your post. It seems like you were saying more than most with the many. Perhaps my mistake.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

What exactly about a Paternoster Gang show would require it to be post-watershed? Are they going to show Vastra and Jenny having sex? Will we see Strax using Sontaran weapons and/or combat skills to brutally wound or even kill his enemies?

I'm not saying such a show should be a children's show like SJA, or even family oriented like Doctor Who, but surely it can be an adult show without being post watershed, right?

Considering how many times the Paternoster Gang has appeared on Doctor Who, to say nothing of the two spin-off novels and their DWM comic appearance, it wouldn't make any sense to make a spin-off with them post-watershed. You run into the problem RTD identified with why he couldn't do a Torchwood Daleks episode -- the Daleks are popular with kids, and kids would want to watch. (Which is why, when we did finally get a Dalek in the Hub, it happened on Doctor Who.) Kids would want to watch Vastra, Jenny, and Strax because they're familiar and, to date, not especially adult except for the innuendo.

 

[Redfern]

Well, I hope they're not doing "adult" stuff in your window!

You'll need something stronger than Windex to "cut" through some of those "secretions"!

What? That's not what he said? "Innuendo"? Not "in your window"? Uh, never mind.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Mr Awe]

Unless there's a poll, "the ones I know" isn't very convincing evidence.

Unless you know a LOT of people who are watching Doctor Who, it most likely isn't a good sample.

That's my point because apparently I know different people than the previous poster!

Mr Awe

Right, makes sense. I guess I was responding to the "many" portion of your post. It seems like you were saying more than most with the many. Perhaps my mistake.

Ah sorry, I probably just didn't think enough about the wording!

Mr Awe

 

[TommyR01D]

Russell T. Davies has already created the show Wizards vs. Aliens to fill the SJA slot. It is aimed at the same audience and it inherited most of SJA's production team (probably it was invented just to keep their careers going).

 

[DrFrankhamstien]

You run into the problem RTD identified with why he couldn't do a Torchwood Daleks episode -- the Daleks are popular with kids, and kids would want to watch. (Which is why, when we did finally get a Dalek in the Hub, it happened on Doctor Who.)

Which is patently ridiculous, since Torchwood was a TV show starring one of the Doctor's companions whom kids loved, and it featured another of the Doctor's companions, AND even a Cyberman. Not to mention many mentions of the Doctor. All of which are reasons kids would want to (and would find a way) watch it.

Torchwood was inherently flawed as a Doctor Who spin-off.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Thats its first two series were largely inconsistent in tone and storytelling also helped, enormously if I might add.