That's right, the BBC have finally come clean and although I'm desperately unhappy about 2009, at the moment it isn't disastrous.
However how fans can claim to be "happy" is beyond the pale. 10 episodes short in 2009 and you claim to be satisfied. What the hell is wrong with you people?
It's nothing to be happy about. Having the show back from the abyss is great, sure, but that doesn't mean Russell T Davies and the BBC are necessarily serving us and Doctor Who well. The very notion of reducing the series to 3 specials in 2009 is ridiculous. It places the subsequent series in jeopardy before scripts are even written.
So have a bloody word with yourselves. Wake up and smell the coffee, open your eyes and stop living in the insane, blinkered world where TV execs are gods and you are their blind followers.
The world doesn't work like that, it works on a foundation of power and money, and with three episodes of Doctor Who in 2009, how is a high media profile going to drive merchandise sales?
If no one is buying the toys, then the core audience has evidently stopped watching - do we want that?
I suspect it is too late to ask for a rethink, but I can at least ask all you half-full fans who insansely label this as "good news" to actually try thinking about it, what the news actually means and be honest with yourselves instead of pretending it is A Good Thing.
It is A Bad Thing.
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We are getting a fifth series, aren't we? I feel sure I read that at some point.
Aye, there's deffo a fifth series, and that is great, don't get me wrong.
it's the BBC's bonkers spin and the virtual gap year that annoy me, but the spin in particular :)
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