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There’s sooo many factors to think of in scheduling. Call the Midwife and the BBC One Line of Duty series have outrated all new series of Doctor Who so you would be overshadowing the series and drowning it out amongst hype for those shows. You want the show to be, if possible, the focus of the day. Strictly’s results show does lower than the Saturday show but it’s still over 8m and amongst the highest on TV now. Also, schedulers aren’t going to out all their high profile shows for the year on one night - they’re going to space them out and use them as a springboard for new shows. This is literally the worst time to talk about cancellation as we know the show is lasting until at least 2024. How many other dramas get to say that? If it was in so much danger then this is a perfect end point for the show with the departure of the main cast and the producers. Instead, they’ve asked for an additional episode and creating a whole new springboard for the show from 2023. RTD is so passionate about the show that he wouldn’t want to be the person who revived it and then killed it again :lol:

Bring back that hat for !!!

They’re not going to revolve their entire annual schedule around Doctor Who :lol: It doesn’t really make a difference anyway as this series led into Strictly aka the BBC’s most reliable and popular entertainment show. Less people are watching a show on the specific timeslot, I remember discussion for other series that the actual ‘live’ viewers who watched it as it aired was at least 1m less than the overnights.

The Christmas hats must have had to go into isolation this year :o

Also, for the following season it then sank down to figures that are the same/worse than what the show is getting now. It’s completely unreliable to do a like-for-like of figures with the classic series, the best measurement is placing in the weekly chart as Joseph is doing.

Yes, absolutely!! I have lots of time off :kink:

No that’s how he’s credited, it’s another one of his methods of chart abuse to get more singles eligible to chart x

Yeh, ratings are largely down across the board this year (although I’m a Celebrity is perhaps suffering the biggest brunt of it!). I think the show can do better but it’s comparatively doing well on the weekly charts, especially for a drama that has been going for 16 years and counting in its current run. I definitely see the Timeless Child storyline returning in the specials, Jo Martin heavily hinted in one of the behind the scenes videos that she’ll be back. It’s the overarching storyline for the era, like the cracks with Matt Smith, so it would be bizarre for them not to return to it in Jodie’s final episodes.

Been obsessed with Scarett so that’s great to see! (not that it really means anything these days oops)

petition for Cledwyn to expand his business into the Australian jungle

I think the problem is that pop groups are more disproportionately buoyed by fans which can easily be translated to sales but it is a lot harder to push through in the streaming era because it limits fans impact. BTS are the biggest and possibly only pop group now getting hit singles and a large part is down to their massive fan base. And yes, you can say there’s nothing stopping fans from still buying in the same amounts as before which should have a big impact but the new generation haven’t been brought up on sales. I’ve seen so many stans on Twitter acting like they’re saving someone’s career because they bought a CD or purchased the single :lol:

It isn’t as though it was a bad episode, it’s just underwhelming in the context of the series and proved there was no need to introduce so many characters. It’s a running theme of this era to just chuck in a hundred characters and take them nowhere. It could have been an incredibly strong series if it had just had more focus and cut out the unnecessary elements. What was the point in the Grand Serpent? There were already enough villains so why introduce another one who isn’t integral to the plot and has no history. Why bring back Kate Stewart and do nothing with her? Obviously she must be returning in one of the specials (given her line about hoping to meet her again) but just have her return then, you don’t need to introduce another element to an already crowded series. What was the point in Vinder and Bel - so much time was spent on their backstories and yet the overall story could have easily been told without their involvement. If you introduce so many elements, they all need to be integral to the story. You shouldn’t feel like you can take one away and still be able to tell the story by maybe rewriting a couple of lines. It was my problem with Captain Jack returning as well - there was no purpose for him to be in either episode other than as a deus ex machina to break the Doctor out of a jail that she was in for 5 minutes and for no reason. I’d have had Swarm & Azure being the main threats for the full series. Keep the Sontarans, Angels, Division etc but tie up Swarm/Azure more with the division and have a clearer aim for their purpose. It felt like wrapping up a normal episode, not the biggest story the show has told. It just all fell a bit flat which is what I’m most disappointed by. I’d really enjoyed the journey but it didn’t lead us anywhere. :(

why introduce all those characters for not one to be anything of importance

oop not everything leading to nothing

Hyped! Although so many elements to tie up and getting the landing right is certainly not a Chibnall strength. Whilst we will get more Division answers, I’m certainly expecting that thread to carry on over the specials. I had been wanting a Master return but that can certainly wait for the specials, it’s way too overloaded for him to also turn up :lol: I’m intrigued as to how the actual Flux will be resolved given it’s destroyed so much of the universe already, part of me wonders if it will be a case of moving universes :o

I’ve always thought that this was the one reality show where the contestants/cast etc didn’t matter but this year is seemingly proving me wrong :lol: It’s never felt like so much of an effort before!

I mean it was guaranteed anyway but Adele is essentially a confirmed performer as she’s doing a Las Vegas residency in Jan-Apr but conveniently has a weekend off in the middle of February :o

Deluxe album is incoming!!! :cheeseblock: Happy Loner out this Friday!!! :cheeseblock: And still three months to wait for the vinyl

all i keep thinking is that if Graham was still there, he’d have made them wait in the village for the Doctor to come and pick them up

shook :cheeseblock: I was not expecting those Division revelations and so hyped as to what will be explained next week, not sure I’m prepared. LOVED the explanation for the Flux, really cool concept. I started to feel it undermined Swarm and Azure as I’d thought they’d caused it but glad they seem to be taking centre stage again after a quieter couple of weeks. The whole episode just looked stunning. So impressed with how they pulled off Yaz & Dan’s world trip all from Cardiff!! Yes it’s manic, yes it’s Doctor Who on a quadruple espresso shot, yes it will put of causal viewers but I don’t care! The show’s future is in safe hands and it’s so thrilling as a fan for the show to tell the biggest story it has ever told and go places the show has never been in it’s 58 year history. It’s so nice to have something so different and showcase what can be possible with the show. I may still have my doubts about the Timeless Child storyline but I cannot deny how amazing it is for the show to have actual secrets and proper reveals rather than the usual omg its actually the Daleks or omg it’s the Master. It’s helping tell stories that I never thought were possible. also lol at the random Class plug - the most promo the BBC have ever given the show

f*** knows where this is heading next, especially after last week’s cliffhanger. There’s still about a thousand elements up in the air with more being introduced this week ( ) so let’s continue the craziest and most manic ride the show has ever been on…

Hoping to see Cassandra Jenkins in today’s update.

Oh I didn’t realise the genre ones were fan-voted, a lot less keen on that part :(