Nearly 11 million people watched Rose...
Series 11 News & Spoilers
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Nearly 11 million people watched Rose...
"Well, I personally didn't watch it, or know about it, or hear my sister's mother's brother talk about it, so it couldn't have been fully 11 million people."
Yup. I know. I think I have it re order from the broadcast somewhere, complete with graham norton. But it didn’t seep into public consciousness immediately that first year. I think it took the BBC a little by surprise. It’s not till the second year that the merchandise went potty for instance. Year one there were like...three novels? A couple of toys. Year two or three is where things like Doctor Who Adventures shows up aimed at the Beano crowd. Year three onward, and such is the fervour you would think everyone had taken to the streets in 93 to protest the cancellation of Dark Dimension, given how many ‘lifelong fans’ suddenly came out of nowhere.
Six novels
I thought I would subside my emotions for the holiday season, but... no. Fuck you BBC, fuck you and your entire organization's fairness policy. Fuck you for the gap year. Fuck you.
I'm sorry, but I just refuse to accept that a gap year is an acceptable policy by any standard. Sometimes, less is not more, less is just simply less.
And I say this as someone who liked the series (although not nearly as much as some of you did).
I'm sorry, but I just refuse to accept that a gap year is an acceptable policy by any standard. Sometimes, less is not more, less is just simply less.
And I say this as someone who liked the series (although not nearly as much as some of you did).
Wow. 
You would've hated the Wilderness years.
You would've hated the Wilderness years.
Wow.
You would've hated the Wilderness years.
The wait between Sherlock seasons would have killed some of the moaners here at this rate.
I am more than fine with Sherlock taking its time. I can understand the wait in that case. But Doctor Who.
Hell no.
Hell no.
At the risk of going bald, but why? Why are the two so terribly different? Other than your severe and caustic impatience?
Perhaps because Sherlock Holmes isn't an on going series? It's just a collection of stories?
We don't have "Sherlock Holmes VS the alien from Planet 5"
Doctor who is serialized. There are a million different stories it can tell on a weekly basis.
Halting the breaks on a new era just after 10 weeks is not normal nowadays. We're used to yearly seasons
This was already answered, and I'll add this: I don't want this to be a normalized situation. I'm not OK with this kind of wait between seasons, and I'm encouraging it. I genuinely dislike that its occuring. There is visibly no real reason to have such a wait.
Given that this is the way the BBC has operated since before I was born, you'd need a time machine and a plan for the reinvention of the structural financial and organisational approach of the whole industry here to change that.
But yes, whining at us will change that just as well. And magically make series 12 be here next week. Please hurt our eyes and minds with this more, it's almost working.
Exactly. I want more, if I have to wait then I have to wait. I'd rather it was sooner than later but if it being later means it they can continue it for a longer time then all the better.
Fine. Then do us a favor and stop whining. We get it. You're mad. Time to focus on other things.
The wait could be a good thing. Get better stories and fine tune the show and come back better than ever. I'm not sure rushing to just get something made has ever made for the greatest tv or movie.
Jason
Game of Thrones did a gap year this year. Disco has an eleven month gap between season's 1 and 2. The Orville took a full year off between its first and second seasons. The Expanse begins its seasons one full year after the previous season ended, and it seems as though that's going to continue under Amazon. Hell, a number of Netflix shows drop a season of ten or so episodes in one sitting, and typically wait a whole year before the new season is available.
Television is changing. Churning out over twenty episodes on a regular basis is becoming a dying breed.
Where do you get two year gap from? There will be a season in 2020, so that's only a one year gap.I see people are so apathetic to ChibWho that they don't even care about a two-year gap.
Regardless, my acceptance of a gap year has nothing to do with my opinion of the recent season, which I enjoyed though there is room for improvement. I'm just really getting used to gaps in Doctor Who that it's becoming pretty much second nature. Besides, according to The Writer's Tale had RTD stayed in charge indefinitely he'd take gap years every four years. Which following that pattern, he'd have taken 2019 off anyway. So either way, we'd be on the cusp of a gap year anyway. It's kinda fated for 2019.
You couldn't see shit if they handed you a VISOR with an overlay pointing at the shit.
Hey now. No needy to get snippy
Oh, if I were getting snippy their grandchildren would be getting mocked.
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