I’m down with that. Chibbers just tap danced on it relieving himself into his trousers. (I am actually not *that* annoyed at his run, but for the sake of simile and humour…)
Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner
- Thread starter Allyn Gibson
- Start date
I’m down with that. Chibbers just tap danced on it relieving himself into his trousers. (I am actually not *that* annoyed at his run, but for the sake of simile and humour…)
While not a fan of the Chibnall era. it's worth noting that the BBC identified him as the next showrunner quite early on, and seemed very wedding to him taking over from Moffat, to the extent that they encouraged Moffat to keep running the show long after he might have left because Chibnall had wanted a break after finishing Broadchurch. Given at times Chibnall seemed to give the impression he wasn't that thrilled at taking over you do have to wonder if, again, there was an element of "well if you won't do it, Chris, we might have to let the show take a break."
I'm completely hypothesising of course and may be completely off base! But I've certainly never got the kind of enthusiasm from Chibbers that I got from Davies or Moffat but that might simply be down to him have a less effusive character.
I'm completely hypothesising of course and may be completely off base! But I've certainly never got the kind of enthusiasm from Chibbers that I got from Davies or Moffat but that might simply be down to him have a less effusive character.
I very much got the impression that Moff hung on because Chibs had taken the job but was happy for the show to have a holiday while he did, thereby killing the momentum that Moff had worked at keeping. (Which is especially true for the Christmas special)
At that point I don’t think a hiatus was inevitable, whoever had eventually taken over (I expected Gatiss, truth be told, but I think the Empress of Mars fiasco bit him) but the New Doctor effect didn’t last for Chibnall, and then it was ran into the ground even before Covid delays happened. (To the point where all the delay did was cement how much people really liked Doctor Who… just not the current version quite so much.)
Is there a chance "WHO" can return for Christmas episodes? I'm struggling to understand why there was a change to New Years? On Christmas, me and my family would watch the special during dinners, it was a sort of tradition at my Dad's home. I miss it.
I would have been interested in a Gatiss helmed Who, because I think he would have had a very clear vision if nothing else, though given that might have been a Hinchcliffe/Holmes style gothic horror it might not have been something the BBC were that interested in. I've no idea if Gatiss was ever considered or if he'd even have been interested, I think you need to be a very specific kind of person to want that showrunner job.
I believe the problem was that Chibnall missed it. And that was it. Gone. (Elf Storage is a Christmas gag, in a New Years episode. He kept missing it.)
I think he was partnered with Moff on Sherlock, so it would have been logical at the time.I can’t see him turning it down, but on the other hand he may have found it hard to resist doing a Dennis Waterman on it. (He would have avoided casting himself I am sure. XD)
I'm even more intrigued by the whole sequence of events now. The Beeb had effectively cancelled the series, so did someone there see the 60th approaching and decide to take a chance on asking Russell if he'd come back, or did he hear what happened and decide to swoop in and save the day?
Given that he's currently at a point in his career where he could write anything he wanted for anyone he wanted and get it made, it's not like he needed the work.
Given that he's currently at a point in his career where he could write anything he wanted for anyone he wanted and get it made, it's not like he needed the work.
Gatiss had some good ideas but his eps were a bit hit and miss.
Whilst Moff did do Fatal Death, Gatiss did the "any old **** with an equity card" gag which did shit over some actually very good Doctors.
Whilst Moff did do Fatal Death, Gatiss did the "any old **** with an equity card" gag which did shit over some actually very good Doctors.
Last edited:
As I have understood it over the years, Gatiss wasn't interested in being tied down to Doctor Who. He's a writer, an actor, and a producer, and something out of these would have to give if he took over Doctor Who. The only way I could see a Gatiss-driven Doctor Who working in a way that afforded him the time to work on the other projects that scratch his creative itch would be the Sherlock model: three or four episodes every two or three years. And I don't see that model making anyone happy.
I've heard that Colin Baker took personal offense to that.
Unless Strevens did interviews at Gally other than the one with Radio Free Skaro (which I listened to in its entirety) and said things about his time on the show that differed from what he talked about with RFS host Stephen Schapansky, this notion of his not being aware of what the BBC was going to do with the property after he, Chibnall, and Jodie left equaling cancellation seems to me to be an overly speculative conclusion being drawn from what he actually did say.
He’d have sung the theme tune?
In fairness Moffat was pretty disparaging back in the day about classic Who, he famously said there was a reason Davison had a career and most of the others didn't, because he was the best actor to play the Doctor (I suspect he was talking post Pertwee of course)
That doesn't necessarily mean it's for Doctor Who.
That's why I said "Hmm..." as opposed to "Here's an ad for a job working on Doctor Who".
Yeah, but it's still a pointless post. It's like sharing an advertisement for script supervisor in Atlanta for Disney and automatically speculate that it could be for Fantastic Four (yeah, yeah, Disney is much larger but the point is the same).
Bad Wolf has all of two shows that might be in production at that time, and I Hate Suzie wouldn’t be filming in Wales (to say nothing of whether you’d call it high-end), so it’s very likely that that listing is for a job on Doctor Who.
If it's not the most people have lost is the few seconds it took to read the post. If it is we have a likely time frame for announcing the next Doctor.
Agreed! And, even before the planned hiatus became known, I had no doubt that DW's existence was on the line. I'm not fully aware of how the deal with RTD and Bad Wolf came to be--there's was so much secrecy around it that even the current production team was unaware of it. According to Strevens, he found out the day before it became public knowledge. But if RTD wasn't willing to do it, the Centenary would've been the final episode for a while.
