Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[Vulcanoid]

I don't think Briggs is unhappy with his career or where he's at in life. He's in a place where he gets to do what he likes to do and be paid for it.

I didn't mean to imply he's unhappy, I meant that he does a lot and I'm sure he'd like to contribute something to the new series before he eventually has to get a chance to do anything with it years later. And I just find him funny as a person in some aspects so I always like him being involved with something. Even that BBV stuff where he has a cardboard tie.

 

[The Wormhole]

The television side of the Doctor Who franchise has been treating Nick Briggs just fine. In addition to all the voicework he's done across the various shows, he's even had at least one live action role, he was one of the cabinet members in Torchwood Children of Earth. I don't think he has any complaints.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Doctor Who star confirms character mystery will be solved very soon

"You will find out who she is and what she's about."

www.digitalspy.com

 

[JD]

I'm glad they aren't going to be dragging the mystery out past this season. It will be interesting to see if her reveal is going to have more of an impact on the wider Whoniverse than the reveal of Ruby's mother did.

 

[jaime]

I'm glad they aren't going to be dragging the mystery out past this season. It will be interesting to see if her reveal is going to have more of an impact on the wider Whoniverse than the reveal of Ruby's mother did.

Ace having a bacon sandwich had more of an impact on the wider Whoniverse than the reveal of Ruby’s mother did.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'm glad they aren't going to be dragging the mystery out past this season.

I assume Disney+ committed to the two seasons, and RTD probably planned accordingly.

 

[JD]

That would make sense.

 

[Starkers]

Also I don't think it's the kind of mystery you can stretch out too long. In fact back when RTD had 13 episodes+ a Christmas special to play with you'd imagine the Mrs Floor arc wouldn't last longer than a season.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Ace having a bacon sandwich had more of an impact on the wider Whoniverse than the reveal of Ruby’s mother did.

The Ed Miliband of Whodom

 

[Rich Watson]

Hmm, so they're doing reshoots this week for the S2 finale, nine months later.

A pessimistic person would think that they're changing the ending to wrap things up, rather than leave anything dangling.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Hmm, so they're doing reshoots this week for the S2 finale, nine months later.

A pessimistic person would think that they're changing the ending to wrap things up, rather than leave anything dangling.

Come on Ace we got work to do?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Hmm, so they're doing reshoots this week for the S2 finale, nine months later.

A pessimistic person would think that they're changing the ending to wrap things up, rather than leave anything dangling.

Or, optimistically they're setting up the next series!!!!!

 

[Tuskin38]

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[The Nth Doctor]

"I'm not even lying!"

He knows his reputation.

 

[Starkers]

Hmm, so they're doing reshoots this week for the S2 finale, nine months later.

A pessimistic person would think that they're changing the ending to wrap things up, rather than leave anything dangling.

Alternatively maybe the original ending was more pessimistic and they're changing it to something more upbeat

Even if Disney are out do we really believe the BBC will cut their losses rather than either looking for another partner or reverting to making it inhouse with a budget cut?

Maybe they're reshooting to slot a regeneration in?

 

[jaime]

Hmm, so they're doing reshoots this week for the S2 finale, nine months later.

A pessimistic person would think that they're changing the ending to wrap things up, rather than leave anything dangling.

Or… two suggestions:
(1) the whole thing was written when the political landscape was completely different, and there’s some social commentary or jokes that just don’t land anymore. (Which is why shooting your show so far in advance and not being good with being subtle or using allegory badly is a mistake)
(2) having seen how well last seasons finale went down with its reveals and general sense of ‘is that it?’ (And not in a good way) they have decided to not do the same thing twice, or retroactively fix the meh nature of Ruby’s Mum (who did not, it transpires, have anything going on) to regain some reputation.

Most likely though it will be to either link it into the upcoming UNIT thing a bit to generate some positive buzz, or to try and put the show gracefully to bed for a few decades. Maybe even get Tennant back to get rid of the elephant in the room that is having a spare Doctor and Tardis just offscreen and *never using them* which regularly holes stories below the waterline. Suspension of disbelief covers ‘why doesn’t some past or future Doctor lend a hand?’ because we watch the show linearly from the present Doctors perspective (and makes something like Day of the Doctor and saving Gallifrey together work within the show — first law of time and all that…) and they have accidentally broken that by essentially bifurcating that line in too big a manner.

I mean, at this point, I say blow the budget on a CGI Anthony Ainley and have him tell the Doctor the whole TC thing was a Matrix created lie before wandering off with some huge VT tape canisters as the show ends. Maybe have Gatwa regen back into McCoy or McGann, since they did a good job being the face of the Doctor last time we had a hiatus.

 

[Rich Watson]

Maybe they're reshooting to slot a regeneration in?

Pure speculation but it's possible they had a cliffhanger leading into the Christmas Special, as used to happen, and want to remove that since it doesn't look likely that we're getting one this year.

They were shooting at the house that's used as the new companion's home yesterday.

 

[David cgc]

1) the whole thing was written when the political landscape was completely different, and there’s some social commentary or jokes that just don’t land anymore. (Which is why shooting your show so far in advance and not being good with being subtle or using allegory badly is a mistake)

Reminds me of the script for "Extremis" where Moffatt noted that they should cast Generic United States President as a man or woman based on who won the upcoming 2016 election, though they didn't lock in to depicting the real President for that scene (though they did reference Trump being president later in the season in situations that would be less politically fraught than showing his dead body).

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

We don't often talk about how spot-on Moffat's political sentiments tend to be. His remark (via Twelve) about Trump in The Doctor Falls is remarkably astute.

 

[Samurai8472]

Someone on Gallifrey Base has confirmed Ncuti has been cut from his contract, TARDIS set has also been struck.

Reshoots/Pick ups are also taking place for the series two finale this week.