Still don't get it, perhaps I'm too naive?
Of course if he wanted to bum me he could
He could bum you but you only want a colonoscopy from a trained medical professional, then?
Matt Smith Reveals DW Departure Date
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He could bum you but you only want a colonoscopy from a trained medical professional, then?
Should he change his name to John Burrow-man?
RTD did pretty well at recurring characters too, giving his leads the best part of an episode off each year.
Quantum Leap must have been 80% Scott Bacula, 10% Dean Stockwell, 10% other cast. And Scott even directed a few.
^ I guess the American work ethic trumps the British one!
That's pretty much what it is, the US studios throw much more money in to the production. A low budget show there is a high budget show here. Production gets behind then throw a second or third unit in and film until 3am to get it done, can't do that in the UK. The main networks budgets are in the Billions in the US, here in the UK BBC 1 has £1bn to play with, BBC 2 £400m, ITV1 £800m and Channel 4 just upped its budget to £600m and Channel 5 is around £200m I think. I think even your smallest network has a higher budget than BBC 1. When you get to cable networks you regularly hear of $1.5m per episode, where as you're looking at £150,000 per episode of the most expensive digital shows here, maybe a bit more of it's Sky.
Wow. If that's the case, it's a wonder so many British programs today look as high-quality as they do.
I wonder how much Canadian productions like Being Erica cost versus US and UK shows?
Top shows on BBC One and ITV you're maybe talking £1.5m, I believe Downton Abbey is £1.2m or so, Doctor Who is £800k-£1.2m (obviously that's just rumoured.) But something on BBC Three or Four will start between £25k and £50k and top out at around £125k-£150k per hour unless it's a special event.
Well if Primeval New World or whatever the Canadian spin off is called is anything to go by they're saying $2m Canadian per episode, which would probably be about £1.5m
What? Another one?
Jeez, Moffat, not every finale has to end with the universe ending.
I find myself doubting that Torchwood got by on only £150k per hour (or under a quarter of what Babylon 5 cost to make two decades ago, without expensive location shooting). Then again, I supposed "Doctor Who spinoff" probably counted as a special event.
I find myself doubting that Torchwood got by on only £150k per hour (or under a quarter of what Babylon 5 cost to make two decades ago, without expensive location shooting). Then again, I supposed "Doctor Who spinoff" probably counted as a special event.
Well that was before the budget cuts, but Torchwood was only a BBC Three show for the first series.
^ I thought they premiered it on BBC3 and then repeated it a few days later on BBC2.
no, that was only season 2
^ My memory sucks! lol
Yeah, but at that point it was considered a BBC Two show which got a "Premiere" on BBC Three, much like Spooks was a BBC One show and BBC Three aired it first. These things increased the budget, but by how much I don't know.
Moffat confirms in the new DWM that when shooting finally does finally begin again next year it will be for the longest ever continuous production run.
Whether that's to allow Matt Smith to shoot enough episodes to take him to the Anniversary while still leaving after a year or not time will tell...
Whether that's to allow Matt Smith to shoot enough episodes to take him to the Anniversary while still leaving after a year or not time will tell...
Well that's totally different then what we've heard, isn't it?
Unless it means they'll start airing late in the year, and it won't be a split season, but, it will begin airing before January 2013 and will conitnue into the year 2013 until they run out of episodes
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