Howling:IT IS SERIES 31!!

Steven Moffat has confirmed in DWM 418 that this season (Series 5) is season 31. He said that series one will only be referred to as by him because it is his first season but it will be known as Season 31. So shall we start changing everything??????? -- Michael Downey 20:55, February 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Again, no. We shouldn't change anything until we have a DVD boxset which confirms it.  Ramblings of Moffat in an interview do not constitute anything close to proof.  Besides which, it doesn't retroactively change the nomenclature for series 1-4.  They are what they are.  They were never marketed as anything but Series 1-4.  They will always be Series 1-4, as per the authorial intent of the copyright holders.  And all these pages are double linked anyway.  So if you want to link to Series 4 or Season 30 you can without physically moving the page to some new name.   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  21:39, February 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * What?? you want to wait for the release of a Box Set which probably won't be released until this time next year after the actual series has run and past the Christmas Special which has been confirmed????? -- Michael Downey 22:03, February 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * I want to wait for actual, tangible proof, yes. Seriously, look at the totality of Moffat's proclamations in DWM, just over the past 2 months.  Read especially his first production column at the back of 417.  He's totally having the piss.  He's doing something he KNOWS will stir up fandom, but that no one else really cares about.  Meanwhile, the only official thing from the BBC, namely Confidential, has actually labelled him, via a chiron, as the exec producer of "Series 5".  Please, I beg of you, WAIT until you have something actually produced by the BBC before changing any pages over.  Let's say that he's totally telling the truth and it will be marketed under the number "31" rather than "5".  There's still the question of whether it's "Season 31" or "Series 31".  We need to cross the bridge when we actually come to it, rather than making a change to season 31 now only to find out that actually they've decided to go with the word series.  Patience allows for less work.   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  22:11, February 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * It wasn't until the BBC started releasing videos of the TV stories that we got names for 100,000 BC, The Mutants and Inside the Spaceship (more commonly known as An Unearthly Child, The Daleks and The Edge of Destruction).
 * It isn't actually that long a wait, if the BBC continues its trend of "vanilla DVD releases" we need only wait a month (or however long it is after the first 2-3 episodes have aired) for confirmation one way or another. --Tangerineduel 14:38, February 5, 2010 (UTC)

Right okay so if we can't have it as Season 31 because Steven Moffat the Head Writer said in DWM then everything that is said in DWM must be deleted such as episode titles and everything. How can we trust writers interviews but when it comes from the Head Writer we just shake it off. It either one rule for all or none if not no-one is making sense. -- Michael Downey 16:34, February 5, 2010 (UTC)