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Davies to axe The Doctor after Season 4/30?

  • 31-05-2007 12:10pm
    #1
    aidan_walsh
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    http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/31/dr_who_axe_plan/
    Doctor Who will reportedly be exterminated next year after the end of the fourth season of the revived series.

    Producer Russell T. Davies has decided to bring the hit sci-fi show to a close so he can concentrate on other projects, The Sun reports . The paper adds that Davies and other senior staff are feeling the strain of the heavy workload imposed by the show — nine months a year of 16-hour days — and plan to resign en-masse.


Comments

  • #2
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Bah. The Sun. They were reporting Freema had been axed the other day. i seriously suspect that somone in the DW office trod on The Sun's toes and now The Sun is having a field day on them.

    RTD couldn't axe the show. Only the BBC can - he's just a producer after all. Even if he decided to go, the BBC could replace him at will.


  • #3
    mike65
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    Quite so, The Dr will last longer than anyone involved with it. Its a money-spinner for Auntie I belive.

    Mike.


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    BuffyBot wrote:
    They were reporting Freema had been axed the other day.
    Ah, I wasn't aware. I only noticed the story this morning when El Reg's RSS threw it in front of me.
    BuffyBot wrote:
    RTD couldn't axe the show. Only the BBC can - he's just a producer after all.
    Well, I was pretty sure he wasn't acting alone. It had occured to me that he might find some way to wrap things up with the Beebs permission.


  • #5
    mike65
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    Why would they though, they can always rest it for a year or two then come back (after the Blakes 7 revival!).

    Mike.


  • #6
    popebenny16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭popebenny16


    Yeah I saw all this over on Digital Spy and outpost Gallifrey and it's pure baloney. Who must easily be the biggest money spinner the BBC has at the monent in terms of Merchandise and DVD sales there's no way they are going to end it. If it is anything it could well be end-of-contract drama from RTD and his gang.


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