Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[CuriousCaitian]

Big enough Gold fan here to possess a couple of his Who score albums. He came up with many great cues and some of my favourite DW moments and eps (I'm one of those weirdos that finds a lot to love in Rings of Akhaten, for example) feature his score strongly. However, I agree with others upthread that his music was often, very often, misused; a prime example for me is the aforementioned Madman in a Box, which seemed to crop up in ep after ep in 11's era as a "Doctor being the Doctor and saving the day' hero cue.

Agreed that the sound mix was an issue, but that's not unique to Gold's time with Who, or indeed Who in general. My theory is that most TV and film these days is mixed for top-end sound systems (eg Dolby Atmos) with little to no thought about how it will sound on other systems, not least the systems the average household is likely to have, resulting in music and sound effects dominating, and speech muted and often hard to understand.

I'd be happy to see Gold return, but sorely hope he'd be bringing new sounds, not just rehashing the past. The odd fleeting homage, maybe, but no more. As to Akinola, I actually feel a little sorry for him, as I don't think he ever really had a chance to shine, either providing low-key atmospheric stuff that for me felt disconnected from the episodes, or Gold-aping grandness that never lingered; providing music to order, but never really getting to express himself like Gold did.

 

[captainkirk]

As to Akinola, I actually feel a little sorry for him, as I don't think he ever really had a chance to shine,

That's how I feel about most of the cast and crew of the Chibnall era. I imagine it's not easy to write amazing music when the scenes you're given are subpar.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I love the bombast of his scores. Too many tv composers seem scared to go that epic.

I don't have a problem with bombast on its own.

My problem is Gold leaned on it way too often.

 

[captainkirk]

I can't think of any moments that felt too bombastic. Heck, one of my favorite movie tracks ever is Ennio Morricone's Ecstasy of Gold which plays over a scene of an outlaw running through a cemetery. If a scene like that can get ridiculously epic music, then I think Doctor Who can as well.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The sound mix was terrible. Even worse if Tennant's Doctor was mumbling under his breath. So many jokes about it were made

I was wondering about that, like is he responsible for the actual sound mix? Have other productions that use his music had the same issues?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

There are times, the way Gold's work was chopped up, brutally cut, and reused, that I feel Moffat and, to a lesser extent RTD, would have been better off just buying commercial temp track music, like Two Steps from Hell.

 

[jaime]

I like Murray Gold, and he did some great music during his time on Doctor Who, but it was clear by the end of the Moffat/Capaldi era that he was spent. So I'd have no objections to getting someone new for the music.

Certainly. Day of the Doctor is the most glaring example of this, in that Gold actually did do a lot of new tunes for the special, but in the finished production we just largely reused tunes from prior seasons/episodes. One of the more perplexing examples, a new piece of music was done specifically for the Doctor's conversation with the Curator, but in the special itself they decided to use River Song's theme in that scene. The music that was done for that scene was later used in the scene where Clara has a phone conversation with the Eleventh Doctor in Deep Breath.

So it’s the default ‘timey wimey stuff looping’ song.

 

[StCoop]

Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to Disney+ we go. (Possibly.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...alks-with-the-bbc-to-stream-doctor-who-series

Edit:Hillariously people on Twitter are getting angry (what's new) because they think that this somehow means Disney would own the series.

 

[Photoman15]

So, will it still be on BBC America? There's my problem.

 

[StCoop]

So, will it still be on BBC America? There's my problem.

It could end up a bit of a mess. BBC America for first run on the same day as the BBC, HBO Max for the older series and Disney+ for the Sony produced series (since they don't have a streaming service of their own.)

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Edit:Hillariously people on Twitter are getting angry (what's new) because they think that this somehow means Disney would own the series.

News flash: People on the internet overreact based on misunderstood facts! Film at 11.

 

[captainkirk]

I wonder if the deal would mean an even higher budget. It could really boost the appeal and popularity of Doctor Who.

 

[XCV330]

The quality of Doctor Who never rose with the budget. Heh.. I said rose.

 

[jaime]

Would be nice if it meant Marvel and the old DWM stuff could be back in slight continuity.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to Disney+ we go. (Possibly.)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...alks-with-the-bbc-to-stream-doctor-who-series

Edit:Hillariously people on Twitter are getting angry (what's new) because they think that this somehow means Disney would own the series.

I would love to see the tardis land on Pluto.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Would be nice if it meant Marvel and the old DWM stuff could be back in slight continuity.

They already have a solution for that: Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey multiverse.

 

[kirk55555]

Would be nice if it meant Marvel and the old DWM stuff could be back in slight continuity.

They already have a solution for that: Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey multiverse.

In that case, I demand the return of Professor Justin Alphonse “J.A.” Gamble to team up with The Doctor to fight the team of The Daleks and the Dredlox

 

[StCoop]

I wonder if the deal would mean an even higher budget. It could really boost the appeal and popularity of Doctor Who.

It's just streaming rights for the next series (and I'd assume the 60th Anniversary episodes as well). So no more money than they get from HBO Max just from a different place.

 

[Samurai8472]

The oncoming storm. The man who typically has a child at the center of the plot. The one. The only. He is rumored to return....

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=441891514619240&set=a.434881908653534

According to the same source that leaked Tennant and Tate’s return, Steven Moffat is set to return to write a number of episodes for Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor under Russell T Davies.



Tennant and Tate may have wrapped filming now, with Ncuti scheduled to film his episodes in around three months time

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1550120270383292418


If you scrawl down the chain of comments, there's also a reveal that Tennant Is referred to internally as the 'Bridge Doctor'

 

[The Nth Doctor]

IF this is true, I would welcome that. Moffat was always a better at smaller scale solo stories than he was with big sweeping arcs (which I mostly enjoyed, probably more than most). Everything he wrote for Davies gold and I'd like to think the same would be true this time around.

IF this is true.