I will also be sad to see Moffat go, though whatever you think of him it is a good time to move on and freshen up the show with a new guiding hand. Five series seems to be a decent run.
Adam Lenhardt said:Great news for Jeffery, bittersweet news for me:
Series ten will be Steven Moffat's last
"Broadchurch" showrunner Chris Chibnall will take over starting with Series Eleven. He was previously the head writer on the first two series of "Doctor Who" spinoff "Torchwood". During the RTD era, he wrote the real time third series episode "42". During the Moffat era, he reintroduced the Silurians in the fifth series two-parter "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood", put dinosaurs on a spaceship in the seventh series episode of the same name, and gave us one of the more unusual episodes of new "Who" with "The Power of Three" (also in the seventh series).
He's not my favorite new-"Who" writer by a long shot, but I'm just really happy Mark Gatiss isn't taking over, since I've never cared for his "Doctor Who" episodes.
As suspected, "Doctor Who" won't air a new series in 2016. There will be the customary Christmas Special in December, and then Moffat's final series will kick off in Spring 2017. I hope he gives it everything he's got.
Adam Lenhardt said:As suspected, "Doctor Who" won't air a new series in 2016.
Josh Steinberg said:This really annoys me. They make so few episodes as is, and now they're going to take a year off? I know the BBC has always operated a little differently than typical American networks, but this is ridiculous. I've felt more strung along as a TV fan in the past few years than I have at any other point in my life, with the number of "mid season finales", two month breaks, split seasons spread over two years, and all the other dumb tricks that networks have been pulling to make less episodes of a show but milk each one for more than ever.
Can you imagine what it would be like to try this at a normal job? "Hey, I don't really feel like working this year… but I expect my job to be there when I get back next year."
Sorry if I'm blowing this out of proportion, but it feels lately that TV makers haven't been holding up their end of the bargain. The bargain was that I'd come and spend my time with you, become attached to the story you're telling and the characters you're creating, and sit through the commercials paying for it all, and in return you'd show up in my house most weeks and tell me a story. TV seasons haven't been "most weeks" or even "half the year" for a long time now, but this is a new kind of low. You've got a show that's more popular now than it's been in decades, but with a showrunner that wants out, a lead actor who apparently does too, and a network that's happy to go over a year without regularly scheduled episodes. I just don't get it. If the ratings are lower when they come back, if people have lost some interest, they deserve it.
Don't mean to be shooting the messenger, this is just immensely disappointing news. In terms of the quality of content that's being produced on TV these days, we're seeing some of the best stuff that's ever been done in the medium, but in terms of the experience of actually watching TV on TV as TV, it's awful.
I'd bet that it will be back near the time we get new episodes.Wayne_j said:Sadly New Who is leaving Netflix February 1st
EDIT: I love how people use this casual "so-and-so didn't know what real Who was"-attack to bash the outgoing guy (I distinctly remember the same thing when RTD left, and we'll get it the same when Chibnall packs it in, although I strongly suspect he'll actually deserve it) then fail to elucidate on what "real Who" actually means.
Russell T Davies, the showrunner for the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant years.Quick question, but what does RTD mean?
Russell T Davies, the showrunner for the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant years.
For the current run from 2005 forward, a Complete Series 1-7 Blu-Ray set is available. But I wouldn't recommend it because they slowed the episodes down from 25 fps to 24 fps to make a 1080p24 release. In addition, all of the episodes from "Rose" at the start of the first series through "The Next Doctor" were upconverted for the Blu-Ray, since they were produced in standard definition, "filmised" from 50 interlaced fields per second video.Instead, I'd recommend buying the first four series individually on DVD, buy the "Complete Specials" Blu-ray set, buy the complete series Blu-Ray sets for series 5 and 6, and then buy the series 7 part one and part two sets on Blu-Rays. That will get you everything through "The Name of the Doctor" at the original playback speed. Unfortunately, "The Day of the Doctor" has only been released in 1080p24.
This really annoys me. They make so few episodes as is, and now they're going to take a year off?
Can you imagine what it would be like to try this at a normal job? "Hey, I don't really feel like working this year… but I expect my job to be there when I get back next year."
I just don't get it. If the ratings are lower when they come back, if people have lost some interest, they deserve it.