Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20131207065154/@comment-188432-20131213193207

Tangerineduel wrote: How about we parole everyone blocked from the start of 2014, new year and all that jazz? Because the point of the amnesty would be to allow everyone back in at the moment they most want to be here: the changeover of Doctors. Also we want people to be here when they actually have time to be here: Christmas holidays. If we wait until 1 January, what we're effectively saying is, "Welcome back — on the eve of the day you have to go back to work or school."

The timing of Christmas Day, is, in my view, critical. Yes, sure we'll have a lot of bad edits during Christmas — as I pointed out, we always do — but we'd also be delivering a message of renewal and goodwill when the greatest possible audience between now and the start of series 8 can hear it.