He's talked about there being thirteen this year, presumably that's twelve+Christmas.

But do you know what? After watching 24:LAD, I reckon twelve is a nice, even sounding number & I'd be fine with just a 12 week run with no Christmas special. Hell I'd be even more fine with 10, hour long episodes & to hell with the Xmas special in that scenario as well.

And yes, I understand the argument 'but the 2013 series was only 8 episodes long, & that had filler', but remember that all of series seven was actually filmed together as one & all they did was split the T.V run in two separate halves, so all that ended up happening was that the weaker episodes (that every series has had since 05) stood out like a sore thumb. Series 6 had the same problem. Actually any series from 2005 onward probably would've have the same issue if the broadcast (not the production) runs had been split in two.

I think it will be 12 plus a Christmas special. Hope most of the episodes will be good. Course we vary on what we think is good. Part of the fun is different ideas and opinions. Looking forward tp watching and talking about S8.

So basically this thread is about you liking even numbers (it is nice to have a thread with a maths related word).

12 & Christmas. Talalay is preparing a two-part story written by Moffat - it can't really be anything other than the finale and another episode has yet to materialise.

I know not much faith was put in it at the time, but BBC Worldwide inadvertently leaked this (and Matt's departure) over a year ago.

If it's 8 months filming, yep, think it'll be 12 episodes plus Xmas. And it will certainly be great when we can start talking about new episodes and how Capaldi goes. Relief.

Even numbers are (plus Chistmas special so that's actually 13 isn't it. My Maths GCSE was not in vain!) Odd numbers are then.

Bottom line. New Doctor Who is always