@JimTheFish

Yeah, the rumours were definitely 2019. The first series of a new producer, so far, has always taken longer in production time than subsequent series. Given that the post-production of later episodes can continue while the first episodes are being broadcast, I’d have expected pre-production to be starting around now if they were to…[Read more]

@DogBoyTheCat

Did I offend someone with that question?

I can only refer you to the following dialogue from Time of Angels

THE DOCTOR: Er, no offence, Bishop.
OCTAVIAN: Quite a lot taken, if that’s all right, Doctor.

Ratings were discussed in the On The Sofa thread. Short version – each episode to date has higher ratings than any series…[Read more]

Sorry, @craig. Yes, I got a private message asking me to email her hotmail address.

@KevinWho

Love and Monsters is the lowest, at 76. An AI of 80 is fine – generally the BBC 1 average is around 81 – and I suspect the BBC is smart enough to realise that some respondents might be reacting to the perceived criticism of the good old British Empire, sun never sets, etc.

Apart from those two episodes, everything else is comfortably…[Read more]

@craig

We seem to have a new little friend, currently called Hariatta Hester. She works for the ‘united nation’. I’m not sure which nation is united. Certainly not ours, right now. 😈

@JimTheFish

Opinions can vary on whether The Doctor Falls should have been Capaldi’s swansong. Personally, I prefer regeneration dramas that don’t have me wondering if I should see my GP about some psychological counselling. Or whether I could borrow someone else’s anti-depressants. 😈

Of course, this is a personal view. 😀

As the end of…[Read more]

@pedant

From George Sheard on Twitter:

Ep1: finalised at 10.96m – Highest Ratings for a series opener. Ep2: finalised at 9.00m, which are the highest ratings for Ep 2 since 2008. Then:

Ep3: 8.41m – Highest Ratings for Ep 3 since 2012
Ep4: 8.22m – Highest Ratings for Ep 4 since 2010
Ep5: 7.76m – Highest Ratings for Ep 5 since 2012

Ep6 is still…[Read more]

@nerys

I think quite a few Sikh people have mentioned that – but it’s clear from Vinay Patel’s tweets that he knows about the Sikh experience of Partition, but decided he needed to concentrate on one cross-cultural pair of neighbours. Fair enough – you can’t do everything in 50 minutes.

I can imagine that Yaz would not have looked back. That…[Read more]

@whisht

One which seems consistent is when each time the subject is being explained (eg 1950’s segregation; environmental issues or Partition) it feels to me like the Doctor is reading from the school’s syllabus.

Absolutely agree that Chris Chibnall needs to up his game on the infodumps. Because that’s what they feel like – and I would say tha…[Read more]

While we’re discussing Demons of the Punjab, can I just give a shout-out to another programme in the BBC’s Remembrance Day schedule – They Shall Not Grow Old, directed by Whovian Peter Jackson.

He appeared in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and I think he may have done some other stuff as well. 🙂

The project sounded slightly doubtful in advance…[Read more]

@miapatrick

I got the definite impression that, while it was left open, Yaz’s Nani had indeed realised that her granddaughter had somehow managed to go back in time to the day of her wedding. That the conversation was in effect saying ‘do you want to talk about it?’, and Yaz acknowledging that she understood how painful it would be for her Nani…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I really, really get how you’re feeling – it might just be that Chibnall and the Whittaker Doctor simply aren’t your cup of tea, or it might be that the change from the direction of the Moffat years is so great that it’s going to take a series to get your head round. I’m sort of coming at it from the opposite direction, of course.…[Read more]