Guy who wrote some of the worst episodes of Doctor Who before being unceremoniously kicked off the show for being a total prick has some opinions about the future of the show everyone!!!
The BBC has binned its planned Doctor Who Christmas special and put the show 'out to tender'. This is a face-saving TV industry term for saying you've kicked an ailing show into the longest of grass, but don't want to enrage its most rabid fans.
Good luck with that, chaps. Essentially it translates as 'Somebody please, please take this nightmare off our hands'. Itโs like one of those Facebook ads you see for a dog that needs rehousing because it barks all night, gnaws on toddlers, and has no control of its bowels, but is a total sweetie, honestly.
If by some bizarre quirk of circumstance I found myself the unwilling owner of the tender, I'd put Doctor Who on ice for at least a decade. Much has been written in the past few days about what happened to poor old Doctor Who, how the thing was revived in glory and then retoxified in shame.
As a former writer on Doctor Who, I was actually in the room when some of the mistakes were made. I offer the following suggestions โ in a reflective but constructive spirit โ for anybody barmy enough to take the thing on. (And yes, I broke many of these 'rules' myself, but I know better now.)
โ๏ธ Gareth Roberts
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@Rob1n1Out Couldn't care less about RTD's feelings, he's going to be absolutely fine, but this is just weird behaviour. Not really sure what you expected to get out of this, you didn't even say anything particularly funny.
RTD took a risk (a bad one, I'm not defending it) but it absolutely was a risk that needed to be taken.
I have no idea what's gonna happen now and nor does anyone. But this current situation is a culmination of poor decisions over the last decade.
RTD took a risk (a bad one, I'm not defending it) but it absolutely was a risk that needed to be taken.
I have no idea what's gonna happen now and nor does anyone. But this current situation is a culmination of poor decisions over the last decade.
A lot of blame being laid at RTD's feet at the moment (which is absolutely warranted giving the absolute fuck up of the Disney deal and the spotty writing) but let's not pretend the show hasn't been struggling one way or another since the last half of the Moffatt era.