Dr Who News: Moffat Speaks
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Posted on: 2010-08-30 04:00 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Oh gods, Doctor Who has gone to the Americans!!
Seriously, I hate this idea, I like the fact that in the UK we get a full season of a show, from start to end, usually in the right order with no breaks. Cliffhangers that last several months suck. I can cope a week or two, but several months, no, I hate it 
Bah, worst news about the series ever
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Originally Posted by Coin
Oh gods, Doctor Who has gone to the Americans!!
Seriously, I hate this idea, I like the fact that in the UK we get a full season of a show, from start to end, usually in the right order with no breaks. Cliffhangers that last several months suck. I can cope a week or two, but several months, no, I hate it Bah, worst news about the series ever |
For a 12 year old boy THAT was the worst news EVAR!
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I don't think Americans have anything to do with it. What is American about Dr Who wanting to continually top the last series finale? He wants to go big, and this is a mechanism that he feels allows him to do that.
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Originally Posted by Coin
Oh gods, Doctor Who has gone to the Americans!!
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Seems interesting.
I'm not bothered about changing the way the show airs, they already changed it from the traditional when they brought it back.
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Originally Posted by brophog02
I don't think Americans have anything to do with it. What is American about Dr Who wanting to continually top the last series finale? He wants to go big, and this is a mechanism that he feels allows him to do that.
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I was referring to the weird way the American TV schedules work, with programs shown out of order, with breaks for no apparent reason etc. In the UK we usually get a season of a show shown 1 a week, same night, (generally) same time with (usually except for sports events) no breaks at all.
It's great, we can rely on seeing a show properly, in order, making sense and not having to suddenly wait for several months to find out what happened. I don't like this new idea at all, it's a very American Network style idea.
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I think it works simply because it gives the writers breathing room to pace the stories involved. That way you're going from a to b with little filler going on and hitting all the notes that you want to hit.
It's about as decent a compromise as you'll get with there being no prospect of a return to 23 half-hour episodes a season.
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This also allows them to release two sets "full season" DVDs. Kinda like the crap BSG was pulling.
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Originally Posted by SuperOz
I think it works simply because it gives the writers breathing room to pace the stories involved. That way you're going from a to b with little filler going on and hitting all the notes that you want to hit.
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Why do I get the feeling tat this will be "earth-shattering" in the literal sense...?
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NBC Universal Cable model, as used on USA and SciFi.
And I prefer the Daily Mail for my weekly dose of Amy Pond while waiting for the next series.
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Courtesy of The Guardian:
Next year's 13-part series, the sixth since Doctor Who returned in 2005, will run for seven episodes and then return in the autumn for another six.
He added that next year's Doctor Who would run as two separate series, allowing him to double the number of "event episodes" in the new run, and meant fans would never be more than a few months away from the next instalment of the hit BBC1 show.
"Looking at the next series I thought what this show needs is a big event in the middle," Moffat told the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. "I kept referring to a mid-season finale. So we are going to make it two series seven episodes at Easter building to an earth-shattering climax, a cliffhanger we could never normally do because it would be too long before it came back. An enormous game-changing cliffhanger that will change everything. The wrong expression would be to say we are splitting it in two. We are making it two separate series."
"What I love about this idea is that when kids see Doctor Who go off the air, they will be noticeably taller when it comes back. It's an age for children. With an Easter series, an autumn series and a Christmas special, you are never going to be more than few months from the new series of Doctor Who.
"Tart that I am, we will now have two first nights and two finales, twice as many event episodes as we had before."