Executive Producers don't do any work. The title is either a contractual obligation (big name actor gets listed as one) or a way of generating finance/selling your product by having a well-known producer attached.
Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
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Executive Producers don't do any work. The title is either a contractual obligation (big name actor gets listed as one) or a way of generating finance/selling your product by having a well-known producer attached.
I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess that the Ramones didn't really intend for their audience to start beating on brats with baseball bats, either.
When it comes to soundtracks... wallpaper comes in many varieties. A soundtrack by Johnann Johannsson, Hildur Gudnasdottir, Colin Stetson, or Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow isn't necessarily going to have a lot of strong, memorable melodies or a wide range of dynamics and instrumentation. It won't sound anything even vaguely like a John Williams score. A fair amount of it is likely to be minimal and texture-based. Some people may be put off by their work, or actively annoyed by the occasional noisiness in some of it. But those composers will support the film or TV series with a lot of atmosphere rather than loud bombast. Their work will also result in soundtrack albums that work as background listening instead of demanding your attention (well, Johannsson's Arrival may grab your attention sometimes, and some of Stetson's horror movie work). So some people will probably find this stuff wallpapery, or sometimes just not musical at all. But stuff like that, and Howard Shore's Crash and Cliff Martinez's Solaris, work for me. Akinola's only got one foot in this world, his music is more conventional TV soundtrack work for the most part, but I don't find it grating or overdone the way I often do with Gold's music.
Executive Producer can mean a lot of things; those are two of them, but they’re certainly not the only two. For the specific project, though, I suspect Davies’ involvement does fall into the latter camp. He’s also credited as an executive producer on an ITV miniseries that came out last month, and his quote (well, the quote some PR person wrote for him) on that was very much in the producer-as-clout-bringer camp: “I read 100s of scripts, but this one shone out from the rest. It's an honour to help Jamie get this to the screen – it's funny, fast, clever and heart-breaking, everything you want a drama to be!"
Well, well, well, Moff may have been misleading us (if this story is true, which it may not be. But I hope it is). Old habits…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/stephen-moffat-set-doctor-who-29427235
Get back to me when there's a better source than the Mirror (or any of the other tabloids).
That source "quote" is especially dubious. "Make Doctor Who great again."
That source "quote" is especially dubious. "Make Doctor Who great again."
The editing of that article is just awful. The title calls him Stephen Moffat, while the article itself uses the correct Steven Moffat.
Given everything that has happened over the past week I can't wait to see the reaction this time next year when the BBC broadcasts an episode of Doctor Who where thinly-disguised Tory stand-ins turn out to be brain sucking slug monsters...
Obviously taking this with a grain of salt because of the source, but I'd be up for Moffat writing some episodes. He was at his best as a writer who didn't control the show, and even his worst episode is better then anything from the Chibnall era at the bare minimum. As long as he's not responisble for writng any prolonged arcs, I'm all for him coming back to write some episodes.
Well, since the Chibnall era had an episode that was just 50 minutes of right wing propaganda (Kerblam), its about time for the show to go back to pissing off the people who'd support the Helen A's of the world. The show now (presumably) not being as influenced by the Tory controlled BBC would probably lead to that even if RTD wasn't back running it.
RTD says Episode 4 is one of the greatest things he's made in his life
https://twitter.com/BBCWilliamWho/status/1635289669868097536
https://twitter.com/BBCWilliamWho/status/1635289669868097536
That's the one I was talking about!
Setting up high expectations there. Hopefully it's as good as he thinks it is.
Yeah, he's hyping it like crazy. Did it feel like this in the RTD era when it was running?
Yes. Very yes.
The only difference now is I'm a little more confident that he can delivery on that claim thanks to his recent successes.
The only difference now is I'm a little more confident that he can delivery on that claim thanks to his recent successes.
I love it when RTD starts talking everything up!
It says something about Doctor Who fandom that the showrunner suggesting Doctor Who might be good at any point during the season is routinely met with high-minded skepticism.
While I get what you're saying, my skepticism is based on how I felt about his writing for most of his original run.
It's not much of a secret that a UNIT series with Jemma Redgrave and Ruth Madeley is in the cards but the Hollywood trades are reporting it now, so perhaps an announcement is in the offing?
https://deadline.com/2023/03/doctor...-davies-great-thing-ive-ever-made-1235299996/
https://deadline.com/2023/03/doctor...-davies-great-thing-ive-ever-made-1235299996/
My main concern with a UNIT series is that it runs the risk of basically being a Doctor Who version of Agents of SHIELD.
Well AOS and DW do have one thing in common; lots of running up and down featureless grey corridors.
