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12 hours of New Who in the 00's will be quite a lot more than we had in the 90's.

Who knows, iif it is really dreadful they'll probably keep commissioning new series over and over - remember Bugs!

Our Mate Lawrence can't Post here so I thought I'd stick his comments up:

He Says:-

[b]Well, no major surprises there then. I must admit that I'd forgotten about Steve Moffatt -- he seemed to go rather quiet after declining to be involved with Big Finish, even after they'd signed up McGann. To think that in the old days they usually had rely on several second- or even third-rate hacks
to cobble together a season's worth of scripts!

Now for some idle and quite probably erroneous speculation...

Steve Moffatt's script(s) will be an intrically plotted hard-SF mystery(ies)
Mark Gatiss's will be a Hammer-ish monster tale with a historical Earth
setting
Rob Shearman's will be the one-off 'experimental' episode, but not very
experimental (this is 21st-century BBC1 remember!)
Paul Cornell's will be an homage to Terrance Dicks, with an owl in it.

Now I'm wondering about directors. No doubt lots of people are thinking 'Are they going to ask Graeme Harper', but there must now be plenty of younger talents who ought to be given first go. The only name I can immediately think of is Steve (League of Gentlemen) Bendelack, who virtually auditioned
for the job by doing that vaguely-SF comedy drama thing with Stephen Tompkinson and Dawn French the other year (I forget what it was called, so it can't have been that good, but I did think it was really well directed).

And mustn't forget music -- I'd try for Joby Talbot (League of Gentlemen again), who I think would be perfect.

Over to you...[/b]

Hmmm that sunday times article. Tabloid tittle tattle I think. But I wouldn't be against the Doctor falling in love.

These writers could do it properly. He fell in love in Human Nature (of a sort) and it worked perfectly and touchingly.

And if we can't have Daleks then fair enough - perhaps they are a bit old hat now and we need to look contemporary.

But I do think the no sex rule should stay - we want a childrens series for adults to enjoy with their children.