There isn’t a script and we can’t come up with one until we decide how we’re going to approach the next film

Finally got around to this and jesus... C- was frankly generous, and I’m embarrassed for everyone involved in it. Something clearly went completely off the rails in pre-production: the script is mostly people standing around explaining the plot to each other, and despite being, by the clock, a half hour shorter than No…

King had to step down as director for the film as he helms the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel, Wonka.

Just digitally paint him over with Tig Notaro.

Hey remember when we had to hear on a regular basis from multiple sources how this guy had extremely important opinions about how to live a morally correct life?

G/O media is in the business of acquiring beloved internet properties, driving away all of the talent that made them beloved, and then harvesting the occasional click from suckers like us who still use RSS readers and never bother to unsubscribe from anything, ever.

Sadly I do, and now I want a notarized guarantee that this film is not going to turn out to be 40% people vomiting at the camera.

two made-for -BO favorites (Cast A Deadly Spell, Bob Roberts)

Assuming that RTD was not puffing him up in The Writer’s Tale, Moffat was one of the very few writers who was not being extensively edited if not completely rewritten by Davies.

Ah, I figured it was something like that.  Good on you for sticking together with your team, and no matter what the weird timing this was a hell of a high note for your run on Random Roles to go out on.

Oh wow, did Will Harris not get caught up in the great chicago cull?  Or is this just a queued up piece he finished before?

Well of course.  This is the timeline we deserve.

I know some of the criticism of Cats was a little over the top, but I still don’t think there’s really a market for a sequel.

I’m seriously bummed that her pregnancy probably means she’s not going to be available to participate in the 60th.  One of these days we’ll get to find out what she’s like with a competent scriptwriter.

Technically Tennant did four and a half, although “season 4b” or whatever you want to call the 2008-2010 specials was relatively short and spread out over longer time to everyone’s schedules around the RTD->Moffat turnover and the fact that everyone was very, very, very tired.

Say what you will about Rick & Morty fandom, but so far it hasn’t acquired a psychotic multimillionaire superfan using his money and infinite spare time to have a meltdown on national TV every time the show changes something he feels strongly about or the production schedule does not meet with his approval.

One of the amazing things about the Capaldi era to me is that it actually has two Christmas specials that are actually worth watching on their own merits: Last Christmas and The Husbands of River Song. (And Twice Upon a Time was, I think, two drafts away from being really good but given the circumstances under which…

See my reply above to HeathMaiden; the TLDR is that Danny Cohen stepped down as head of the BBC and his successor buried the show.

Honestly, a Moffat/Chibnall diarchy along those lines might have been great? Say what you will about Chibnall’s scripts and story ideas (here, I’ll start: bad, terrible, very not good) the show looked great under him, at least until COVID made everything weird.  The man is not bad at getting TV made, he just needs to…

Strange & Norrell got caught up in ugly internal BBC politics: it was commissioned as a high-profile BBC1 project by Danny Cohen but then Cohen left and his successor didn’t care for it and it got shuffled off to a midsummer release on BBC2.