Series 6 Writers Confirmed

[Pseudo]

Of course, all those turned up before the season was split in two, and we only know the first half's writers...

Before it was announced that the series was going to be split in two I'm pretty sure that the splitting the series would have been planned and discussed at length prior to the announcement being made. I doubt that Moffat awoke in Scotland one Sunday towards the end of August and thought "Do you know what would be a great idea? Wow, I'd best announce that today before I change my mind. It's rather fortunate that I'm speaking at a television festival today!"

According to someone who works in the industry and occasionally hears the odd bit about the series there had been serious discussion of splitting series five in a similar manner between Vampires of Venince and Amy's Choice. Apparently they decided against it because they thought it might be seen as suggesting a lack of faith in Matt Smith.

Not, of course that the splitting of the series has any bearing on the writers involved since the all thirteen episodes are being filmed consecutively. Which would presumably mean that the writers would all be working to the same schedule as usual.

 

[Lonemagpie]

^ My point is that those writers previously named as being working on "series 6" but who aren't on the official list of the 7 episodes of what is *now* called series 6, may simply have written episodes 9,10 and 11 of what will doubtless now be called "series 7" and not be not writing any. (assuming Moff writes episode 8, and 12/13)

 

[Pseudo]

^ My point is that those writers previously named as being working on "series 6" but who aren't on the official list of the 7 episodes of what is *now* called series 6, may simply have written episodes 9,10 and 11 of what will doubtless now be called "series 7" and not be not writing any. (assuming Moff writes episode 8, and 12/13)

Sorry I misunderstood what you were getting at because I'm not making the assumption that they will be known as Series Six and Series Seven, especially given that the final episode of the Spring run is the first part of a two part story.

My feeling is that the DVD releases are more likely to take the BSG Series 6 and Series 6.5 route. But of course, that's just a feeling. Anyway, it's just far too confusing to start calling them six and seven from a spoiler discussion point of view.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^Steven Moffat has said they will be series 6 and 7 in interviews, I seem to remember anyway.

 

[Starkers]

Of course, all those turned up before the season was split in two, and we only know the first half's writers...

Before it was announced that the series was going to be split in two I'm pretty sure that the splitting the series would have been planned and discussed at length prior to the announcement being made. I doubt that Moffat awoke in Scotland one Sunday towards the end of August and thought "Do you know what would be a great idea? Wow, I'd best announce that today before I change my mind. It's rather fortunate that I'm speaking at a television festival today!"

According to someone who works in the industry and occasionally hears the odd bit about the series there had been serious discussion of splitting series five in a similar manner between Vampires of Venince and Amy's Choice. Apparently they decided against it because they thought it might be seen as suggesting a lack of faith in Matt Smith.

Not, of course that the splitting of the series has any bearing on the writers involved since the all thirteen episodes are being filmed consecutively. Which would presumably mean that the writers would all be working to the same schedule as usual.

I'm sure various rumours were floating around on here about a split of Season 5 to accomodate the world cup...obviously they came to nothing but who knows?

 

[Lonemagpie]

^Steven Moffat has said they will be series 6 and 7 in interviews, I seem to remember anyway.

He sort of has to, after saying "there are no Daleks in season 6" and "the RTD Daleks are coming back with the New Paradigm ones as an officer class"... Translation= the Daleks will be in the second half!

 

[Pseudo]

^Steven Moffat has said they will be series 6 and 7 in interviews, I seem to remember anyway.

He sort of has to, after saying "there are no Daleks in season 6" and "the RTD Daleks are coming back with the New Paradigm ones as an officer class"... Translation= the Daleks will be in the second half!

That as may be, but I seem to recall Moffat insisting that last series was called Series One.

To my mind it seems to depend less on what the Moffat and the production team call the series and more on the how the media and BBC Press Office refer to it.

The conspiracy theorist in me would rather they didn't call it six and seven because somewhere down the line TPTB might decide to go back to only producing one series a year, but at the same length of what will then be a 'current' series, ie. six to eight episodes.

I know, horrible, paranoid "It's 1986 all over again!" crap and if the show loses popularity the series length will eventually be lowered, but I'd rather not give people the slick PR line to do it with.

 

[Lonemagpie]

To my mind it seems to depend less on what the Moffat and the production team call the series and more on the how the media and BBC Press Office refer to it.

The conspiracy theorist in me would rather they didn't call it six and seven because somewhere down the line TPTB might decide to go back to only producing one series a year, but at the same length of what will then be a 'current' series, ie. six to eight episodes.

I think we may well see exactly that, what with all the across-the-board BBC budget cuts.

At the very least, I expect that the 2012 season, even if it's a full 13 episodes, will air in the autumn, since that way they can air one as the Xmas episode without having to make it a separate, 14th, episode.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah but they have to air Merlin somewhere!

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Spring 2012?

 

[Starkers]

well frankly given we have to wait for Merlin because of Who's split next year I'd rather S4 of Merlin aired before series whatever of Dr Who did.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

well frankly given we have to wait for Merlin because of Who's split next year I'd rather S4 of Merlin aired before series whatever of Dr Who did.

Can't series 4 doesn't start filming until March and it's an 8 month shoot.