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Dr Who season 8 teaser and airdate
May. 23rd, 2014 07:14 pmThe first season 8 teaser trailer, confirming an August start date (the Bank Holiday 23rd or the 30th, I'd expect.)
This week's Radio Times has an interview with Moffatt, and mentions that "this will be the first season since 2010 to have a full run - probably 12 - with no more of that split-season nonsense."
Cue the eruptions of betrayal from fandom pointing out that 12 is one less than full.
I predicted months ago that this would probably happen though - that most likely if they run from autumn it'll end at Xmas, with the Xmas episode serving as a de fact 13th episode, so there'd no longer be a total of 14.
Mind you, I also wouldn't have been surprised if they'd reduced it to 10, as that's the common series length for the BBC now.
In other DW news, there's a female director for some of season 8 as well, specially imported from Hollywood. Sadly it's not Oscar-winning Kathryn Bigelow, but Rachel Talalay, director of Tank girl and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, as well as various TV episodes for shows like Supernatural, Continuum, and Haven.
Cue the eruptions of betrayal from fandom pointing out that 12 is one less than full.
I predicted months ago that this would probably happen though - that most likely if they run from autumn it'll end at Xmas, with the Xmas episode serving as a de fact 13th episode, so there'd no longer be a total of 14.
Mind you, I also wouldn't have been surprised if they'd reduced it to 10, as that's the common series length for the BBC now.
In other DW news, there's a female director for some of season 8 as well, specially imported from Hollywood. Sadly it's not Oscar-winning Kathryn Bigelow, but Rachel Talalay, director of Tank girl and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, as well as various TV episodes for shows like Supernatural, Continuum, and Haven.
