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From: YourName@YourISP.com
What Doctor Who needs is to be run by someone who knows what "Doctor
Who" really is meant to be *AND* to stop trying to appease the
Politically Correct whiners and quota box-tickers. Unfortunately, it's
far too late and probably best to put the show out of its misery. :-\
Mark Gatiss: "Maybe it's time for Doctor Who to have another rest"
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Former Doctor Who writer, Mark Gatiss, has suggested it might be
the right time for the programme to have "another rest", just as
it did between 1989 and 2005 (with a brief resurgence in 1996).
Gatiss has written numerous episodes of the show, including
The Unquiet Dead, The Idiot's Lantern, and Cold War, and, when
asked what he thinks of the current state of the franchise, he
replied:
"It's been back for 20 years, which is an awfully long
time. Almost as long as its original run. That's pretty
spectacular. So maybe it's time for another rest. I really
don't know. I only know that I still love the show with
all my heart."
And it does look like the show is having a rest - certainly there's
no news from the BBC or Disney+, the former apparently waiting for
the latter to decide whether to recommission it or not. "Or not" is
reportedly the likeliest outcome, which means that the BBC might be
in search for a new streaming partner... although the BBC could fund
it itself without another company involved - it just doesn't seem
to want to.
Even showrunner, Russell T Davies, has admitted that the series is
"on pause".
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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