Second in the shock department only to a certain sitcom cancellation this week, the news that Andrew Lincoln would be moving on from The Walking Dead has set the internet abuzz with speculation as to how (and why) the departure might play out.
After Christopher H. Bidmead left Doctor Who, Anthony Root took the role on for three months in a trainee capacity. He developed scripts that Bidmead had commissioned, including one by Eric Saward. In the meantime, Root took on another three month contract for Juliet Bravo. Having impressed the outgoing Script Editor with The Visitation, Saward … >
Christopher Hamilton Bidmead became script editor of Doctor Who in late 1979, brought onboard by new Producer John Nathan-Turner. Bidmead had been an actor, scriptwriter and journalist, and was recommended to JNT by Robert Banks-Stewart (who had written for the show in the mid-Seventies). He inherited a situation where JNT and Executive Producer Barry Letts … >
Doctor Who, the show that can go anywhere and do anything. It’s vital, it’s delightful, it reaffirms your faith in humanity, with a hero who is never cruel or cowardly. And yet… Robert Holmes is widely regarded as the best writer/script editor of Doctor Who, either ever or at least from its first 26 series. … >
We’ve been spoilt. Once upon a time the ideas of crossovers and characters switching between shows was a rarity, a treat in an otherwise static TV landscape. Sure, you had your franchises like Law & Order and its offshoots, and Angel would occasionally pop up in Sunnydale post spin-off, but it was nothing compared to … >
We dig into the history of Doctor Who script editors again, at a stage when calm was being sought after a particularly choppy era behind the scenes…
Join us for a theory, as we speculate whether the BBC is planning to release the ten episodes of Jodie Whittaker’s first series of Doctor Who in one go…
In the very early years of Doctor Who, script editors tended to start their tenure full of ideas for their version of the show, only to find themselves slowly run down by the sheer amount of work involved, just putting out what’s proven to work. They didn’t stick around for longer than two years, usually wanting to … >
We take a look at the Gerry Davis era behind the scenes of Doctor Who, and examine the changes that he helped introduce…
With Disney, Viacom and more all looking to fund Netflix rivals, there seems to be an assumption that consumers have a bottomless pit of money for streaming service subscriptions…