Howling:Scheduling Threat to Doctor Who

According to a report in The Times, Friday June 17 2011, the BBC has announced that Series 7 of Doctor Who will be split over 2 years, 2012 and 2013. The BBC says that this is to let Steven Moffat concentrate on Sherlock. Moffat, on Twitter, has flatly denied that the scheduling change to Doctor Who has anything to do with Sherlock. Anyone with a long enough memory will know that messing around with the scheduling of the show was how it was got at the last time by those in the BBC who didn't have the wit to value it. The technique is to mess with the scheduling so that the audience figures fall, then use the falling audience figures to justify withdrawing resources (effects budget, etc.), which makes the audience figures fall further, which justifies suspending production "for a while" and, if they get away with that, simply never restarting it.

First, of course, we need to find out what is really going on and why. Is Moffat cutting back or is he being cut back?

89.242.78.180 16:48, June 17, 2011 (UTC)