The Doctor has already been cast. It's clear now that the reason the BBC canned Holby City was purely to free up Jo Martin's schedule.
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The Doctor has already been cast. It's clear now that the reason the BBC canned Holby City was purely to free up Jo Martin's schedule.
So much so that I I'm not sure if she would become The Doctor because of the similarities. But I'd certainly love to see her on the show in whatever form.
Great ideas all of them, I particularly like Lydia West and Nicola Walker (and obviously Alexander Siddig). Walker has done a lot of Big Finish so I don't know if she might be a little Doctor Who tired, but her take on The Doctor could be very different from Liv, so anything is possible. After having recently watched Years and Years, I'm dying to see more of Lydia West. Doctor, companion, Master, Rani, whoever! I'll take it.
I'm opened minded about showrunner and also agree it doesn't need to be a fan. I would love to see Phoebe take a crack at it, but she's too busy doing all of her own projects. I'd settle for a script or two on the side.
I don't think for a second he deliberately stretched it out. No more than Moffat did with his runs. A combination of workload, BBC stuff, and real-life issues.
Honestly, when it came to season releases, RTD was the exception, not the rule. And even he knew he couldn't keep a season coming out every year which is why he planned the 2009 gap year back in 2006 and he even said in The Writer's Tale that had he stayed in charge indefinitely, there would be a similar gap year after every fourth season. I'll admit, Moffat deserved the criticism he got for gaps between the seasons given he made the promise that he was going to shorten gaps between seasons when he in fact increased them. Yes, the increase in gaps was likely out of his control, which only makes it stupider that he promised to lessen the gaps if that was something he never had control over. Chibnall though should be applauded for managing to stay on schedule with only a small decrease in episodes during a pandemic that has screwed over everything else in the world.
I only remember season 7 having a gap in the middle, then the show was moved later in the year? Which is a better fit for Who anyway, it was autumnal for a long time.
Chibnall did the bare fucking minimum, and still only managed a bit every two years.
10 to 8 to (as of today) 6.
Lot of other shows, plenty of them more complicated to make, have shot and in some cases broadcast more episodes than that since Series 13 started shooting.
Yup, the next showrunner will cast the next Doctor, just as Moffat cast Smith, and Chibnall cast Whittaker.
Season 6 also had a gap in the middle, it was when announcing that when Moffat said the plan was to decrease the gaps between seasons. The idea being we'd never be more than a few months away from a new episode of Doctor Who. Then we went eight months between the Christmas 2011 special and the season 7 premiere, which at the time was the longest gap between episodes since the show's revival, and that gap increased twice more during Moffat's term.
Still, at 6 that's only four less than usual. American network shows have had to cut their seasons by six to eight episodes less than usual because of the pandemic.
Goodness.
This again.
I just want 20 episodes a year, every year.
Is that so much to ask?
This again.
I just want 20 episodes a year, every year.
Is that so much to ask?
So Chibnall is finally going, and of course he has to do it with a light workload for his last series, 6 episodes then a few specials over two years. I won't miss his lack of writing ability, or his inability to just produce episodes of the show in a timely manner. It sucks that Jodie Whittaker got screwed, I think she could have been great as The Doctor, but as of now, in my opinion, she's the first Doctor without even a single good episode (which isn't her fault), and I doubt that will change in her last series/specials.
Hopefully the next showrunner deletes or even just ignores the moronic "timeless child" bullshit, but at this point just having a new showrunner has to be an improvement over Chibnall.
Hopefully the next showrunner deletes or even just ignores the moronic "timeless child" bullshit, but at this point just having a new showrunner has to be an improvement over Chibnall.
In Britain? Yes.
The CW Arrowverse shows; which budget-wise are closer to DW than a Nextflix or Disney+ series, all managed to make and broadcast far more episodes in far less time.
Even old shows like Red Dwarf were normally only 6 eps per "Series".
And the only reason Doctor Who ever had as many episodes as it did back in the day was because it was super, super cheap.
They did anywhere from 4-10 "serials" per "series" in the classic era, with "episodes" being the various parts of each serial, if I'm understanding it. It's all very confusing to me since they changed the terminology.
13 episodes + a special of who, 13 episodes of Torchwood, 14 episodes of Sarah Jane Adventures, 14 episodes of Doctor who confidential.
That's 55 episodes of Who a year, that probably only happened 2 or three times.
I only want 20.
Yup, except back then it was called seasons, but now it's called series. Just to keep you on your toes!
...and those are four separate different productions. Yes, that 20 is an unreasonable expectation.
You're going to burn out/fatigue the producer in less than one year with that kind of work load. Stories and actors would suffer.
I'm relieved by sad.
Jodie was great with what she was given, and I'll even grant the ideas themselves where pretty good in theory.
But Chibnall was awful with the overall execution. There was so much potential that just didn't get utilized.
And everything felt way to grim most of the time (Granted this has been an issue since the Capaldi era). Even at the grimmest during Tennett/Smith years, I always felt there was still lightness and whimsy to off-set things.
I just would like a full season of the Doctor and Companions just having fun adventures through time and space, instead of being bogged down with lore, mystery or other depressing shit.
Jodie was great with what she was given, and I'll even grant the ideas themselves where pretty good in theory.
But Chibnall was awful with the overall execution. There was so much potential that just didn't get utilized.
And everything felt way to grim most of the time (Granted this has been an issue since the Capaldi era). Even at the grimmest during Tennett/Smith years, I always felt there was still lightness and whimsy to off-set things.
I just would like a full season of the Doctor and Companions just having fun adventures through time and space, instead of being bogged down with lore, mystery or other depressing shit.
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