Series 11 News & Spoilers

[The Wormhole]

The Christmas episodes are 60 minutes and have a 90 minute timeslot. The 50 minute episodes will just be awkward.

Not really. Space has generally been pretty good with 50 minute episodes in the past at either fitting them into the hour timeslot or allowing them to ten to fifteen minutes over. Thankfully, Doctor Who airs on Saturdays, which Space usually airs movies and they rarely every fit into the perfect timeslot mold.

 

[DimesDan]

I doubt the "BBC" itself pays much attention to whether a programme that fits well in its schedules would in another, especially where the placement of adverts are concerned.

 

[ATimson]

I doubt the "BBC" itself pays much attention to whether a programme that fits well in its schedules would in another, especially where the placement of adverts are concerned.

For most cases, I agree. For a show where they get a significant budget chunk from sales via BBC Worldwide, though, making sure they don't kill that golden goose probably should be a consideration.

 

[DimesDan]

For most cases, I agree. For a show where they get a significant budget chunk from sales via BBC Worldwide, though, making sure they don't kill that golden goose probably should be a consideration.

Sure they get a largish chunk of money to be placed in the BBC pot from commercial sales, it doesn't directly go back into Doctor Who though.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

For most cases, I agree. For a show where they get a significant budget chunk from sales via BBC Worldwide, though, making sure they don't kill that golden goose probably should be a consideration.

In the case of Chibnall's Doctor Who, I think that having a producer who comes from a commercial television background will be a benefit. One problem I long had with Moffat's Who work was that it didn't play well broken up by commercials as the pacing wasn't right. Chibnall, who has experience writing commercial television will, I think, be an automatic improvement over Moffat in terms of structure and pacing.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

In the case of Chibnall's Doctor Who, I think that having a producer who comes from a commercial television background will be a benefit. One problem I long had with Moffat's Who work was that it didn't play well broken up by commercials as the pacing wasn't right. Chibnall, who has experience writing commercial television will, I think, be an automatic improvement over Moffat in terms of structure and pacing.

I don‘t know.
The five act structures dictated by how commercials are placed restricts the pacing more than it helps, I think.

 

[Starkers]

Yes, plus writing for ITV you'd likely have a different breakdown of where the act breaks will be than writing for US TV (I imagine, though I know Chibnall has written for America).

That said Dr Who is a British show that plays on a channel with no adverts, it isn't meant to be broken up it's meant to play as a single block.

 

[inflatabledalek]

The show started at 25 minutes rather than half an hour and had a planned fade to black in the early episodes specifically to make it easier to sell to foreign countries with commercials. That's been a consideration since 1963.

 

[Samurai8472]

Set video

https://twitter.com/_MoonChild7_/status/963391237188300800

One of the new companion's can be heard saying "We're home! We're finally home!"


The brand new/old TARDIS

https://imgur.com/lM6Ojt3

13- I wear a fanny pack now. Fanny pack's are cool

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Fantastic! A fanny pack! They'll be all the rage now!

 

[FreddyE]

So its "Tardis Green" now instead of "Tardis Blue"? Is it me or does it really seem to have a definitive green tint to it? Or to be honest and blunt...the only thing I`d call blue is the top light...everything else registers as a kind of darkish grayish green to my optic nevers...MAYBE a slight hint of blue..

 

[Pindar]

So its "Tardis Green" now instead of "Tardis Blue"? Is it me or does it really seem to have a definitive green tint to it? Or to be honest and blunt...the only thing I`d call blue is the top light...everything else registers as a kind of darkish grayish green to my optic nevers...MAYBE a slight hint of blue..

Looks like the old blue colour to me.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Looks like the old blue colour to me.

So its "Tardis Green" now instead of "Tardis Blue"? Is it me or does it really seem to have a definitive green tint to it? Or to be honest and blunt...the only thing I`d call blue is the top light...everything else registers as a kind of darkish grayish green to my optic nevers...MAYBE a slight hint of blue..

Could just be the lighting and unadjusted photograph.
Could look very different on film/video.
But it‘s certainly not the primary blue anymore.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Looks like the Davison-era one.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

If that coloured strip on her tee shirt was on that coat it would be Bakers coat.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Looks like the old blue colour to me.

The hue is 195°-200°. For reference, 240° is blue, 180° cyan, 120° green, . And cyan is only a real colour to colour nerds, so I'm calling it blue. Ocean blue. #TheDress

 

[Danlav05]

In the case of Chibnall's Doctor Who, I think that having a producer who comes from a commercial television background will be a benefit. One problem I long had with Moffat's Who work was that it didn't play well broken up by commercials as the pacing wasn't right. Chibnall, who has experience writing commercial television will, I think, be an automatic improvement over Moffat in terms of structure and pacing.

Even here in England when BBC shows are repeated by commercial networks you can just tell they are not made with ad breaks in mind.

The cuts are quite abrupt and they are a bugbare

 

[Samurai8472]

Yesterday's filming has been subtitled

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"Yes! Result!"

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Jodie Whittaker clearly relishes meeting fans.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Give her three years and see what she thinks then. Mind you, I got a photo-op for my daughter with Peter Capaldi at a con this past spring, and he was nothing but kind and welcoming to her.

Looking at the inside of the TARDIS prop, the bit of inside wall that we see is obviously not made up to mirror the inside of the ship as we won't see it in the finished shot, but in previous recent incarnations they did make an effort to have all interior walls mesh to the final set with a lit backdrop graphic and sometimes the surrounding wall. I wonder if they'll do the same with the new console room so we can get an early glimpse at some point.

Mark