No, I don't have any, beyond that they started production last monday, but it seems reasonable to have a new thread about the new season, series 11 has aired...
Series 12 News & Spoilers
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My prediction is, 2022 will be the last year of Jodie as the Doctor.
You mean she will do the standard 3 seasons plus how ever many specials they produce during that time?
Sounds realistic.
*please be a redesign of the Tardis interior, please be a redesign of the Tardis interior*
Indeed it does. This recent Den of Geek article does refer to a plan by Chibnall to do three series over five years:
https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/doctor-who/62546/doctor-who-what-lies-ahead
So there'll be a whole year off after Series 12 as well. Great. Juuusssttt great. 
Presumably this'll be the last year for Graham and Ryan, as their story arcs have been mostly dealt with (and Bradley Walsh is just too busy). Which finally frees up Yaz to be explored further, though no doubt we'll be back to two companions (another male) by season's end.
Is Chris Chibnall going to keep his hands off the word processor this time, or insist on writing/co-writing most of the scripts again? (Under NO circumstances let him anywhere near the Cybermen again!)
If Hydra consuming SHIELD didn't stop Nick Fury and Maria Hill, I don't see 'Brexit killed UNIT' stopping Kate Stewart/Osgood either. And what about Torchwood?
I think we're stuck with the Fortress of Solitude TARDIS for the rest of Jodie's run, budgets being what they are. But can they at least try to make it look a little more livable? Maybe a chair, a coat rack, a food machine? Or at least some safety rails?
Presumably this'll be the last year for Graham and Ryan, as their story arcs have been mostly dealt with (and Bradley Walsh is just too busy). Which finally frees up Yaz to be explored further, though no doubt we'll be back to two companions (another male) by season's end.
Is Chris Chibnall going to keep his hands off the word processor this time, or insist on writing/co-writing most of the scripts again? (Under NO circumstances let him anywhere near the Cybermen again!)
If Hydra consuming SHIELD didn't stop Nick Fury and Maria Hill, I don't see 'Brexit killed UNIT' stopping Kate Stewart/Osgood either. And what about Torchwood?
I think we're stuck with the Fortress of Solitude TARDIS for the rest of Jodie's run, budgets being what they are. But can they at least try to make it look a little more livable? Maybe a chair, a coat rack, a food machine? Or at least some safety rails?
Then maybe the BBC can hire someone capable of producing 12-13 episodes a year, a number even the UK doesn't generally have a problem doing, even if its a pretty tiny number of episodes by the standards of a lot of other countries. Take away what I think about the (lack of) quality of his work on the show, at some point being able to consistently produce the show on a yearly basis has to be a qualification for being the showrunner.
I was actually joking, but shit. Two years for a single series?
The BBC might just as well cancel the show. The fuck?
The BBC might just as well cancel the show. The fuck?
You must hate British television in general because plenty of popular shows have that long of a break or more before returning.
I don't hate anything. I do hate that my favorite sci-fi show (next to Star Trek) takes this long to produce just ten episodes. Its a disgrace.
No, it's not a disgrace. That's pure hyperbole.
Wow, there's some entitled children out there these days, ain't there?
What is it... 7 series in 19 years for Jonathan Creek?
5 series and 6 specials over 19 years for Absolutely Fabulous.
5 series over 9 years for Luther.
7 series over 15 years for Prime Suspect.
13 series over 24 years for Agatha Christie's Poirot.
...and so on...
5 series over 9 years for Luther.
7 series over 15 years for Prime Suspect.
13 series over 24 years for Agatha Christie's Poirot.
...and so on...
Sherlock fans are laughing at you....
Oh, I knew I was forgetting an obvious one! That would be 4 series and 1 special over 7 years.
None of those shows have Doctor Who's precedent, at all. Also, by and large I don't care about most of them. In fact, I don't mind Sherlock takes so long. So long as it gets made, that's what counts. But Doctor Who needs to be annual, simple as that.
And I don't appreciate being called a "entitled child" so I wish one would refrain these comments being directed towards, when I have never provided fodder for such behaviour previosuly (I'm trying really hard here not to use a "colorful metaphor" as a response).
And I don't appreciate being called a "entitled child" so I wish one would refrain these comments being directed towards, when I have never provided fodder for such behaviour previosuly (I'm trying really hard here not to use a "colorful metaphor" as a response).
Why does it need to be every year? What happens if it isn’t?
No. It. Does. Not.
It's a television series. It's created purely for entertainment. Anything we get is gravy, not a necessity.
Then I highly recommend you go back and look at your previous comments (including the sentence just before that one) and try to understand why people have called you that.
But I'll make it easy for you: It's because you act like that everytime you curse out the BBC for not giving you this show as quickly as you would like.
It was a bit irritating when we got constant gaps during the Moffat era, but that's only because Moffat promised early on that he was going to shorten the length between seasons when in fact he lengthened it. Granted, looking back it was probably matters beyond his control that resulted in increased gaps, but still, he really shouldn't have made such a promise to begin with.
Chibnall has made no such promise. So if we end up with two year gaps between seasons, fine. Besides, if RTD had stayed in charge of the franchise and stuck to his "gap year after every four seasons" thing as outlined in The Writer's Tale, we'd still have no Doctor Who on the air in 2019 anyway.
Chibnall has made no such promise. So if we end up with two year gaps between seasons, fine. Besides, if RTD had stayed in charge of the franchise and stuck to his "gap year after every four seasons" thing as outlined in The Writer's Tale, we'd still have no Doctor Who on the air in 2019 anyway.
