Howling:Why a split in the series?

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Why on earth have they made a split, its just stupid. The only way the split would have been good if they where going to give us more episodes but there not. I'll be honest the episodes last year was awful they where all rushed. The whole season was amazing but as episodes themselves where all pretty poor, felt like they where on for like 10 mins. I understand they want to keep doctor who on for the whole year but why not give us more episodes then. There obviously more interested in the stupid Sherlock thyan Doctor Who. What do you think? -- Michael Downey 13:19, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Just in case anyone's wondering: The Doctor Who News Page - Next Series to be transmitted in two halves

The US shows do it, admittedly they do it with twice as many episodes, but there is a mid-season cliffhanger in a lot of US sci-fi shows.

I think it's a good, mix the format up a little bit. --Tangerineduel 15:30, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

i always thought the next step would be more episodes, but a split does come as a welcome suprise Revanvolatrelundar 15:39, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Three ideas come to mind.

The first is that it is a means to push the web games, books, Torchwood or Sarah Jane as a mid season bridge. Use the main brand to make more out of the spin offs.

Second is that it starts in the UK and gets ahead of the rest of the world. The rest of the world starts to show the new series a little later. The lenght of the break to timed such that the UK, US, AUS etc will have the final episode at the same weekend. That way the BBC makes more from the rights world wide.

Finally they have two ideas of how to end the series. They may do the principle photography for both, but by splitting the seasons they get to judge the public opinion as to which will work (think about the "happy" ending for 1st series of 24)196.216.51.138 17:39, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

I have to agree with Michael, I thought the same thing about series 5, that it was all too rushed. Mind you, it was a fantastic series, but it seemed like they were trying to fit way too much into 45 minutes. With this split, it will split the 13 episodes into 7 in the spring and 6 in the fall, they will be trying to cram even more stuff into the episodes, with only 7 episodes to do it in at once.

I do, however, like the idea of having the show be sort of year round. From June to December is way too long to wait for a new episode. Semian2 18:17, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

I think this would actually be better. It means we'll have it in the beginning of the year, four or five months of speculating, then another set of episodes, instead of a set of episodes, nine months of speculating etc and boredom. I suppose what it also means is that, they could do pickups while they are filming the next series as well, so the can completely smooth over any errors that could have occurred. For example, the future Doctor having a black wrist watch. If they'd aired the Big Bang in the Autumn, they'd have been able to spot that during editing, then go back and do pickups while they were filming the next series, unlike what they did do, where filming was wrapped up completely before the episode aired. The Thirteenth Doctor 21:06, August 29, 2010 (UTC)