Originally Posted by DS9:
“DW has 10-hour working days. American dramas have 18-hour working days. Even something like Quantum Leap, which had Scott Bakula in 99% of scenes, did 18-hour days, 6 days a week for 9 months of the year. Eccleston wants to talk to Bakula if he thinks DW was hard work.”
“DW has 10-hour working days. American dramas have 18-hour working days. Even something like Quantum Leap, which had Scott Bakula in 99% of scenes, did 18-hour days, 6 days a week for 9 months of the year. Eccleston wants to talk to Bakula if he thinks DW was hard work.”
Chances are that with the amount of money put into American shows, they probably had less other teething problems....and were probably able to support their team....
Originally Posted by performingmonk:
“Series 1 was all over the place in terms of schedule. The first block, in particular, was supposed to be insane and director Keith Boak obviously wasn't getting it sorted because there were apparently bust-ups and he wasn't asked back.
Because they were working Chris and Billie into the ground they shot 'The Long Game' as one block on it's own, and cut down the number of scenes Rose and the Doctor were in, so as to give them a break. Chris was ill mid-series as well, which can't have helped. It's in 'Father's Day' where he was ill.
Like he said, he could have just gone on, but why when he wasn't happy? Who knows, he may have read a couple of scripts for series 2 and thought 'sod this'. He was lucky that RTD's scripts for series 1 were solid, as well as the brilliant 'Father's Day' written by Cornell and Moffat's 'The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances'.”
“Series 1 was all over the place in terms of schedule. The first block, in particular, was supposed to be insane and director Keith Boak obviously wasn't getting it sorted because there were apparently bust-ups and he wasn't asked back.
Because they were working Chris and Billie into the ground they shot 'The Long Game' as one block on it's own, and cut down the number of scenes Rose and the Doctor were in, so as to give them a break. Chris was ill mid-series as well, which can't have helped. It's in 'Father's Day' where he was ill.
Like he said, he could have just gone on, but why when he wasn't happy? Who knows, he may have read a couple of scripts for series 2 and thought 'sod this'. He was lucky that RTD's scripts for series 1 were solid, as well as the brilliant 'Father's Day' written by Cornell and Moffat's 'The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances'.”
In all fairness.....what is solid and isn't solid down to opinion....if he didn't run when reading the not-so-fan favourites as aliens of London, End of the World, and Long Game....was series 2 any worse? I doubt the other usually hated scripts like Love and Monsters was even ready....New Earth would have been very different if we didn't have a new Doctor, we wouldn't have got TCI, so that leaves early scripts like Tooth and Claw, School Reunion, and the Girl in the Fireplace, which was apparently wriiten by the Moff for CE.....so if he ran from fan favourites, well then it just shows he has his own opinion
I did understand what you meant. 
