Why are there such big gaps between series with Silent Witness?

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• Mrs de Winter Posts: 2,867

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  08/02/13 - 22:09 #2

  When this series started I thought it was was very early in the year, compared to usual. Don't they usually air in the autumn?
  
  But I do hate the feeling I get when I hear '[x] will return next year' or similar.

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• Westy2 Posts: 14,489

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  08/02/13 - 23:05 #3

  Until that finished, didnt they have to fit it around Emila's committments to Merlin?
  
  Was there a series of either SW or Merlin, where they would have to have covered up her real life pregnancy?
  
  I know near the end of said pregnancy, she did Who Do You Think Are and that was about a month before she gave birth, as it was referenced in the show.

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• far2cool Posts: 6,334

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  08/02/13 - 23:06 #4

  Isn't that usually the case with BBC dramas?
  
  1 a year?

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• ms2608 Posts: 642

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  08/02/13 - 23:11 #5

  I thought I read somewhere that this series was likely to be the last one? I think that the budget was cut quite drastically and they now have to film much more of the storyline in the "office" with much less being filmed on location.

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• zx50 Posts: 91,265

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  08/02/13 - 23:48 #6

  I certainly hope that the next series won't be too long in coming.

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• DavetheScot Posts: 16,623

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  09/02/13 - 01:23 #7

  Mrs de Winter wrote: »

  When this series started I thought it was was very early in the year, compared to usual. Don't they usually air in the autumn?
  
  But I do hate the feeling I get when I hear '[x] will return next year' or similar.

  
  Silent Witness has been airing at the beginning of the year for a good few years now. Last year one of the episodes was postponed due to similarities to a court case and was shown in August.

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