It doesn’t need to end. It just needs new blood. For the last 20 years it’s been exclusively run by a group of people who all used to hang out in the same pub in the 90s.
Let’s have a year or two of someone young and talented shadowing RTD to learn all the ins and outs of producing such a difficult show, and then let them loose.
It needs new blood but keep RTD far away from it. He is garbage at both story and character. I think he is responsible for more that 2/3 of all the fart jokes in Doctor Who.
I think it needs to go back to serials. Give stories enough time to setup problems and them actually solve them. The Doctor just magics hits way out of problems these days.
RTD will need to be involved for at least a little bit.
The problem, as stands, and the reason why RTD is back at all, is it’s an incredibly difficult show to make. Same budget as something like Midsommar Murders, but you’ve got to go somewhere completely different every story, with new sets, locations, and cast. And you’ve got plenty of bespoke objects & scenery to create, and VFX.
So the person running the show has to be a really good showrunner. And there’s not that many people in the UK with that much experience. And fewer who’d want to take on a huge franchise rather than do their own thing.
That’s why you’d almost certainly need someone to shadow RTD for a year or two before they could take over. Even if they’ve been a showrunner before, they’d need experience running Doctor Who.
I’d rather see them bring back Alpha Centauri level costumes and effects than have RTD anywhere near the show. Get someone who knows how to write a good show.
Lower budgets and no fancy effects can force the writers to have to write an engaging story. I don’t want any new Who creatives still involved. I think other than a handful episodes of Eccleston and Capaldi I don’t ever want to rewatch any new Who.
Honestly you have to go all the way back to pre JNT before you get stories I enjoy watching.
Of course the issue here is what people do or do not consider “good” varies from person to person.
The most likely candidates are Pete McTigh and Kate Herron. McTigh is the most probable, given that he’s showrunner of the upcoming Sea Devils miniseries and has had his name linked longer than anybody else.
Both of those names would be new blood (even though they have both worked on the show). Unless Moffat or Chibnall are going to come back again (and they’re not), then the only Fitzroy Tavern regular left who’s qualified is Mark Gatiss, and he said long ago that while he’d have been interested in the 00s he’s very much not interested any more.
That’s the closest we’re going to come to a new take, realistically. One thing’s for certain - nobody is going to take it back to any pre-JNT era.
Doctor Who.
It doesn’t need to end. It just needs new blood. For the last 20 years it’s been exclusively run by a group of people who all used to hang out in the same pub in the 90s.
Let’s have a year or two of someone young and talented shadowing RTD to learn all the ins and outs of producing such a difficult show, and then let them loose.
It needs new blood but keep RTD far away from it. He is garbage at both story and character. I think he is responsible for more that 2/3 of all the fart jokes in Doctor Who.
I think it needs to go back to serials. Give stories enough time to setup problems and them actually solve them. The Doctor just magics hits way out of problems these days.
RTD will need to be involved for at least a little bit.
The problem, as stands, and the reason why RTD is back at all, is it’s an incredibly difficult show to make. Same budget as something like Midsommar Murders, but you’ve got to go somewhere completely different every story, with new sets, locations, and cast. And you’ve got plenty of bespoke objects & scenery to create, and VFX.
So the person running the show has to be a really good showrunner. And there’s not that many people in the UK with that much experience. And fewer who’d want to take on a huge franchise rather than do their own thing.
That’s why you’d almost certainly need someone to shadow RTD for a year or two before they could take over. Even if they’ve been a showrunner before, they’d need experience running Doctor Who.
I’d rather see them bring back Alpha Centauri level costumes and effects than have RTD anywhere near the show. Get someone who knows how to write a good show.
Lower budgets and no fancy effects can force the writers to have to write an engaging story. I don’t want any new Who creatives still involved. I think other than a handful episodes of Eccleston and Capaldi I don’t ever want to rewatch any new Who.
Honestly you have to go all the way back to pre JNT before you get stories I enjoy watching.
Of course the issue here is what people do or do not consider “good” varies from person to person.
The most likely candidates are Pete McTigh and Kate Herron. McTigh is the most probable, given that he’s showrunner of the upcoming Sea Devils miniseries and has had his name linked longer than anybody else.
Both of those names would be new blood (even though they have both worked on the show). Unless Moffat or Chibnall are going to come back again (and they’re not), then the only Fitzroy Tavern regular left who’s qualified is Mark Gatiss, and he said long ago that while he’d have been interested in the 00s he’s very much not interested any more.
That’s the closest we’re going to come to a new take, realistically. One thing’s for certain - nobody is going to take it back to any pre-JNT era.