Richard Curtis returns for Series 6/Season 32!
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Awesome. I hope that he keeps up the quality. (Yeah, I know, that's setting the standard pretty darn high. 
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Awesome. I hope that he keeps up the quality. (Yeah, I know, that's setting the standard pretty darn high.
I wonder if Richard Curtis will become the "Steven Moffat" of Moffat's tenure as showrunner -- the fan favorite who keeps up a ridiculously high level of quality in his scripts because he only writes one or two episodes a year, while the poor showrunner gets villified because he's trying to produce four or five a year and supervise everyone else!
^ Frankly, I can't see Curtis running the show; at least, not on the strength of that one episode. He's probably a bit long in the tooth for it, too.
The picture Neil Gaiman tweeted when he turned in his script for the story not called "The House of Nothing" always made me curious. It was Gaiman, and Moffat, and... Richard Curtis. From that picture, I assumed Curtis was going to be more involved with Who than just "Vincent." Perhaps Moffat might be intending for Curtis to be his successor. Curtis wouldn't be a bad choice.
This gives the impression it will be considered one series instead of two, whether it gets split or not.
I don't think Curtis is enough of a fan of Who specifically and of sci-fi in general to want to be show runner. I'm not saying that person needs to be an uber fan, but I think they need some grounding for a job as big as Who.
My money would be on Gatiss before Curtis if I'm honest, but even then I'm not sure--the next show runner might be someone we've never heard of...or Chris Chibnell
My money would be on Gatiss before Curtis if I'm honest, but even then I'm not sure--the next show runner might be someone we've never heard of...or Chris Chibnell
I think I remember reading this before but yes excellent news. I too don't think Curtis will succeed Moffat, and really that kind of talk is kind of premature in my opinion. I remember the twitter pic referenced above. The decision to split the series in half maybe was made after they already knew who was writing what. This kind of news probably gets released to the media and public way later.
It's one season. There was a six week gap halfway through season 14, and Radio Times labelled The Face of Evil as 'New Season'. But nobody gets pedantic about that.
^ There's been talk of 6a & 6b and Series 6 & Series 7.
After last year, I don't know what to believe and I'm not gonna get all het up about it, but that quote does contradict some of the other quotes.
After last year, I don't know what to believe and I'm not gonna get all het up about it, but that quote does contradict some of the other quotes.
This bit of news (Curtis writing for Season 6) struck me as odd because none of the regular news pages are reporting it. The only source the TARDIS Wikia site cites is a blog that just tosses it out there without attribution. If Richard Curtis were writing an episode, I would think it would be covered a bit more extensively than it is. I'm not saying the information is bogus, but at the same time unless The Doctor Who News Page or Doctor Who Online or certainly the BBC announces it, or DWM, I have to consider it nothing more than a rumor.
A rumor I hope comes true. But a rumor nonetheless.
Alex
A rumor I hope comes true. But a rumor nonetheless.
Alex
@Ar-Pharazon. How does that quote contradict the splitting of the series? It just says what episodes that Moffat is writing. Why must fans nitpick EVERYTHING?
There's splitting and then there's splitting.
It could be split like most shows nowadays with a hiatus, or made into two separate seasons/series, which has been rumored.
It could be split like most shows nowadays with a hiatus, or made into two separate seasons/series, which has been rumored.
Your posts aren't making sense to me. It's already been confirmed a long time ago that series six is going to be split. What aren't you understanding about that? The episode list you quoted above in your post is simply pointing out the episodes that Moffat is going to be writing. Are you trying to say that because the episode numbers are in sequence to a normal series long production this somehow means the series won't be split?
I believe the quandry is wether a Split 13 episodes = 2 Series (S6 and S7); 1 of 7eps and 1 of 6 OR if it simply means Series 6 has a hiatus.
I thought it was already established that series six would be split into half. With the first half being series six, then there would be a hiatus for a couple of months then the second half would air as series seven?
This was originally posted on Gallifrey Base, if that's the original source then having been asked the OP about it directly. It's more rumoured than definite. Apparently Curtis has been working on a second script for the series, but whether that script is going to be Episode Ten or not is debatable. There's every chance that it might not have been ready in time for pre-production (which should be well under way by now, if infact it's not already filming.*) so it may well be held over for next series.
* There's good reason to believe that the currently filming Episode Twelve is being double-banked with another episode which might very well be Episode Ten.
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