Doctor Who could be in for some big changes after Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall\u2019s departure. <\/p>
What\u2019s next for Doctor Who<\/a>? Well, er, we have no idea \u2013 at least past Jodie Whittaker\u2019s upcoming series and specials \u2013 with no Fourteenth Doctor or new showrunner currently lined up to replace the star or series boss Chris Chibnall.<\/p>\n Our only clue at the moment is a quick comment by BBC Drama Controller Piers Wenger, who hinted that big change could be on the way<\/a> for the longstanding sci-fi series. In fact, that\u2019s more or less just literally what he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs with any change of Doctor and showrunner, it will be ambitious and radical,\u201d he said during a talk at the Edinburgh TV festival.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will have to look at the TV landscape in which it will play. So, change is ahead!\u201d<\/p>\n\n See? We told you. Anyway, in this week\u2019s RadioTimes.com Doctor Who podcast<\/strong> we take a few guesses as to what these \u201cradical\u201d changes could or should be, from the drastic (a rumoured multi-year rest for the series) to the old-school (a return to multi-part serials, as with the upcoming series 13, rather than a collection of standalone episodes).<\/p>\n And in the end we have to ask \u2013 did 1970s Who boss (and Morbius Doctor<\/a>) Philip Hinchcliffe have it right after all when he suggest the modern series could learn from multi-part classic stories?<\/p>\n \u201cSo the whole idea was that every week, there\u2019s an episode with a cliffhanger, and the audience talked about it during the week, and then they came back,\u201d he recently told RadioTimes.com<\/strong>. \u201cFour half-hours, or four 25 minutes, is pretty much the length of a movie. And so that that was the ideal story arc, over four half-hours.<\/p>\n \u201c[Doctor Who showrunner] Chris Chibnall and I talked about this when I met him a couple years ago \u2013 we had our natural cliffhangers. He said that he\u2019s trying to construct within his story structures to have \u2018cliffhanger moments\u2019, if you know what I mean, going through. But it all happens much faster, at a much faster pace.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI don\u2019t think that the 45 or 50 minutes story is as satisfying in some ways, because you don\u2019t get to know the characters much, or as well as in my stories.\u201d<\/p>\n Who knows? Going back to the 25-minute serial format would certainly be pretty\u2026 radical.<\/p> Want more? Check out last week\u2019s podcast speculating about the Doctor Who centenary special<\/a>, or our full chat with Philip Hinchcliffe<\/a>.<\/p>\n Doctor Who returns to BBC One this autumn. Check out our dedicated Sci-Fi<\/a> page or our full TV Guide<\/a> for more details.<\/strong><\/p>\n Doctor Who could be in for some big changes after Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall\u2019s departure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3811,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/listen-to-the-radiotimes-com-doctor-who-podcast-lets-get-radical.jpg",900,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/listen-to-the-radiotimes-com-doctor-who-podcast-lets-get-radical-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/listen-to-the-radiotimes-com-doctor-who-podcast-lets-get-radical-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/listen-to-the-radiotimes-com-doctor-who-podcast-lets-get-radical-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/listen-to-the-radiotimes-com-doctor-who-podcast-lets-get-radical.jpg",800,533,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/listen-to-the-radiotimes-com-doctor-who-podcast-lets-get-radical.jpg",900,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/listen-to-the-radiotimes-com-doctor-who-podcast-lets-get-radical.jpg",900,600,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Doctor Who could be in for some big changes after Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall\u2019s departure.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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