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Old 28-03-2016, 03:52
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I was watching Planet of The Dead and Water of Mars on W and thought how magical it was the adventure and thrill, seeing Christina fly off in that bus and DT had one more fun adventure and seeing the terrifying water zombie things. Now I know they don't wanna show DW this year because of the olympics or whatever but why couldn't we just have specials throughout the year and then continue with SM's last series in 2017?

I mean in 2009 it worked out great. Plus I would love to see Capaldi having fun hour long adventures and something like Waters of Mars.
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Old 28-03-2016, 04:32
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I know right! Such a shame because we have no full series or special episodes this year. We have to wait mine months for the Christmas special. We should of had maybe three or four feature lenght episodes.
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Old 28-03-2016, 06:15
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I don't really feel like we're missing out on much to be honest as I was none too impressed with the specials year. The Waters of Mars was great, but the rest not so much. Planet of the Dead was a hour long collection of cringey scene after cringey scene and I absolutely despised Christina de Souza, and The End of Time was an overblown disaster that felt more like the RTD and Tennant show than the closing of an era. The Next Doctor I thought was okay at best (David Morrisey was quite good, actually) but just didn't hold a very good story.

I feel that if they were able to do a collection of specials this year, they would have just been able to have gone with a full series anyway. But Moffat didn't even expect to be doing this and Chibnall is unavailable until he's done with the next season of Broadchurch, and the BBC have apparently wanted him on board, so a gap year is what we get.
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Old 28-03-2016, 10:32
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Would have been good to have a different team producing a couple of prequel specials with Paul mcgann while awaiting the Christmas special. Not to be though.
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Old 28-03-2016, 10:40
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I was watching Planet of The Dead and Water of Mars on W and thought how magical it was the adventure and thrill, seeing Christina fly off in that bus and DT had one more fun adventure and seeing the terrifying water zombie things. Now I know they don't wanna show DW this year because of the olympics or whatever but why couldn't we just have specials throughout the year and then continue with SM's last series in 2017?

I mean in 2009 it worked out great. Plus I would love to see Capaldi having fun hour long adventures and something like Waters of Mars.
Don't forget the Specials year followed a SPRING series, which finished on the 5th July, thus we had a gap of nearly 6 months until Christmas, nearly 4 months until POTD then SEVEN months until WOM. We then had another 3 month gap between TEOT and S5.

So that's 21 months between S4 and S5 with 5 Specials, so it's not as if the Specials were regular events.

The gap between S9 and S10 is probably only 15 or 16 months during which there will be 2 Christmas Specials. The gap between S8 and S9 was 10 months (with 1 Christmas Special) so in reality the gap is 6 months longer than it would normally be
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Old 28-03-2016, 10:45
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I imagine it would have been tight, logistically. Sherlock hasn't gone anywhere and the same team are still producing a full series this year. So pieces of the Roath Lock pie were shared among other projects.
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Old 28-03-2016, 12:39
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The 2009 specials were (and correct me if I'm wrong) more because there was a new production team coming in, so they wanted to slow things down for a handover. In this case, it seems likely that budgetary and scheduling conflicts are at the heart of it, so those aren't going to be relieved by filming specials.
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Old 28-03-2016, 13:24
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The 2009 specials were (and correct me if I'm wrong) more because there was a new production team coming in, so they wanted to slow things down for a handover. In this case, it seems likely that budgetary and scheduling conflicts are at the heart of it, so those aren't going to be relieved by filming specials.
They were initially decided upon back in 2006 as a compromise between the BBC and RTD.


The BBC wanted RTD to do a 5th series he didn't want to. They eventually agreed on the Specials.
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Old 29-03-2016, 00:25
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People seem to still be under the impression that we're having a whole year off when we're not. To compare this to 2009 is a bit unfounded. Series 4 ended in early summer 2008, with Series 5 not kicking off until mid-spring 2010. That's almost two whole years between Journey's End and The Eleventh Hour. It made sense to fit in a run of specials between the two.

Compare that to now, where Series 9 finishes right at the end of 2015 and Series 10 starts in early 2017. The gap is only a little over a year between episodes, with a Christmas special still in that gap too. Considering Series 9 only debuted in late September, the gap here is technically only about half a year extra wait at best, with no delay in getting Series 11 out under a new showrunner the following year. So if anything, they've done a better job than they did in 2009 I think. The only difference is there's one bigger gap to take on, but rather that than the mediocre drip-feed of episodes that 2009 turned out to be anyway.
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Old 29-03-2016, 01:25
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They were initially decided upon back in 2006 as a compromise between the BBC and RTD.


The BBC wanted RTD to do a 5th series he didn't want to. They eventually agreed on the Specials.
I thought it was due to Tennant being busy with Shakespeare.
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Old 29-03-2016, 01:35
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I thought it was due to Tennant being busy with Shakespeare.
It was decided to do the Specials in Jan 2006, Tennant wasn't offered Hamlet till sometime after Sept 2006.




The Director of Hamlet saw Tennant in his episode of Who Do You Think You Are? which only aired in Sept 2006 and it was due to this that he offered him the role.
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