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'Doctor Who': Next full season shelved until 2013
The first concern on "Doctor Who" fans' minds when the BBC announced an additional 14 episodes of the series was when they might get to see them. Showrunner Steven Moffat initially assuaged fears of a broken Season 7, but now it looks like the current run will be the last regular season until 2013.
A BBC reporter took to Twitter after BBC One Controller Danny Cohen spoke on the matter at an event, saying there won't be a full season in 2012, but a special anniversary run in 2013. (The seventh season of the current "Doctor Who" marks the 50th in the franchise's history.)
There's still no official word on how many episodes -- or specials -- will air in 2012, but Cohen reportedly assured that there would be some "Who" next year.
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This is how U.S. shows die painful deaths.
Wow the world really will end in 2012, and now the Doctor wont be there to stop it. Thanks BBC.
"(The seventh season of the current "Doctor Who" marks the 50th in the franchise's history.)"
This reads wrong. It will be the 50th anniversary of the show's debut, but Doctor Who has not been on for 50 seasons. There was a long break between 1989 and 2005 with only a TV movie in 1996. No seasons aired in that time. I really hope this means they have something big planned in 2013. A reunion of all living Doctors please?
@Ed
Doctor Who might not of been on TV with new content during the 1989-1996-2005 era but that dose not mean the BBC was not exploring other dimensions in the form of other media.
Big Finish Audio - has been a huge outlet for new and exciting Doctor Who content, Authorized by BBC to produce a wide range of stories featuring past doctors in new stories. Including a robust lineup of 8th Doctor Stories that more then make up for the lack of a Televised Series.
The New Adventures, Target Books, Short Trips, and other approved novels also shed light upon the amazing stories we'd of seen if the series would of keep going, the events of the "The Cartmel Masterplan" where nicely laid out for us, and did what it sought out to do, interject a deeper mystery into the lexicon and back story of this beloved traveler of time and space.
The Comic Strips, Comic Books and the flash-comics all paint a riches more heroic image of the Doctor.
Things like Steven Moffat's Doctor Who: Curse of Fatal Death and Scream Of The Shalka both enrich the shows history as events that could of happened in an alternate universe or time line.
Remember back to when the doctor first arrived at TORCHWOOD-1 at Canarie Warf, how he described a cracked universe like a bet of cracked glass, each crack in the glass is in my view a diverged time line where anything is possible of to happened. much like turn left where if dona hadn't gone the way she did, the doctor would of died.
so read a book, wrap your ears around a Big Finish Audio drama or simply pop down to your local comic book shop and pick up a copy of one of the many doctor who comics and enjoy.
"(The seventh season of the current "Doctor Who" marks the 50th in the franchise's history.)"
Yes indeed, leave it to Mikey to write so poorly that he ends up making a factual error out of a badly written sentence. Why is it that these so-called "journalists" don't have much of a grasp on the English language?