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MDY

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Unclear:

https://twitter.com/#!/stevendeknight

(Steven DeKnight is the Spartacus Creator/Exec over at STARS who co-produced the last series with the BBC)

Sadly Torchwood has been torched.
I spoke out of turn. Actually not sure. Would LOVE to work with Russel!

RT @sadsuburbancos apparently Torchwood has been quietly canceled...

Yeah, I assumed Torchwood was over since Russell Davies made the deal w/ Showtime.

@CateRpillagirl love the Torchwood news backpeddle pmsl

Probably means STARS aren't interested with another series.. plus RTD seems to have found work elsewhere..

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Private Eye with more backstage gossip.

The BBC’s efforts to exterminate any goodwill surrounding its most-loved property and biggest banker, Doctor Who, continue with last week’s news that David Yates, director of the last four Harry Potter films, has been brought in by Jane Tranter of BBC Worldwide Productions, to develop ideas for a big-screen version.

Yates’s interview with Variety – heavily hyped across the BBC’s own news outlets on 14 November – was the first that showrunner Steven Moffat had heard that negotiations had reached such a stage. A sticking point in Moffat’s negotiations over his hiring as Who supremo back in 2008 had been his concern about a mooted movie overshadowing his work on the TV series. So failing to give him any advance warning – not least because Yates spoke of the need for “quite a radical transformation” which would “start from scratch” – was, at the least, tactless. But then since very senior people at the BBC openly describe Moffat as “a problem”, this may have been the idea.

Meanwhile, BBC Worldwide has been making good on its stated aim of “exploiting media content and brands around the world” with the announcement in the same week of the “first official Doctor Who convention”, to be held in Cardiff next March. While the many long-running unofficial conventions, featuring appearances by various stars of the programme past and present, tend to charge around £40 a day or, in one case, £85 for an entire weekend, with autographs and photo opportunities included, 2012’s official effort will set fans back £99 per person for a single day.

Anyone wishing to purchase an autograph from Moffat or the Doctor himself, Matt Smith, was required to fork out a further £20 or £25, although following an outraged reaction from fans it was announced last week that “after consultation with Steven Moffat we have agreed that the limited, guaranteed autograph signing and photography opportunity with him will be offered on a complimentary basis”.

Oh, and the organisers of this particular celebration of Doctor Who recommend that children do not attend.

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From Steven Moffat's Twitter:

To clarify: any Doctor Who movie would be made by the BBC team, star the current TV Doctor and certainly NOT be a Hollywood reboot.

Movie thing: David Yates, great director, was speaking off the cuff, on a red carpet. You've seen the rubbish I talk when I'm cornered.

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From Steven Moffat's Twitter:

I'd almost prefer that NOT to be the case. I wouldn't mind how rubbish the movie was if it was a separate canon, with a separate Dr. Like the Peter Cushing films of the 1960s, which are Doctor Who but in a completely separate canon from the show. Then they can do what they like! But there's barely enough time to film the TV show - there would surely have to be a reduced episode count if the current TV Doctor also had to film a movie? If it was rubbish, it would actively detract from the TV show in a way that a non-canon reboot wouldn't.

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I'd almost prefer that NOT to be the case. I wouldn't mind how rubbish the movie was if it was a separate canon, with a separate Dr. Like the Peter Cushing films of the 1960s, which are Doctor Who but in a completely separate canon from the show. Then they can do what they like! But there's barely enough time to film the TV show - there would surely have to be a reduced episode count if the current TV Doctor also had to film a movie? If it was rubbish, it would actively detract from the TV show in a way that a non-canon reboot wouldn't.

Also, it couldn't be about the Time War if Matt Smith was in it.

Any movie is either going to have The Master or the Daleks as the bad guy, given they are the most recognisable enemies. So if it fits in to the TV universe we will either get another retconned Master (sigh) or ipod Daleks. Add me as another vote for a seperate canon.

This is quite possibly my geekiest post ever.

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I don't know why people are so desperate to see the Time War, I guarantee that whatever is in RTDs head is 10,000x worse than anything you could possibly imagine.

...was what sprung to my mind...

But yes, I don't want to see the time war, but neither do I want to keep getting mini hints as to what happened. Keep it secret, keep it safe (keep it away from RTD).

That said: as moffat's first two series have been about putting a story to retconning all of the prior mistakes maybe series 3 might be about undoing the time war? It and the master are the last things left to rescue from Corporal Brilliant.

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It seems this is the reason for Torchwood being shelved.

Russell and I are meeting at a restaurant in Manchester. I’m hoping it’s third time lucky. Twice before we’d agreed to meet only for Russell’s plans to change, forcing him to cancel. The last cancellation has been playing on my mind. We’d been due to meet in Los Angeles, but he’d emailed me from a planned holiday in Britain to say he wasn’t returning to America. His partner, Andrew, needed long-term medical treatment and they wanted to be closer to friends and family. At the time I didn’t want to pry. Now that we meet, I’m wondering whether Russell is OK to talk about it. He is.

“There we were, living in LA and loving it,” he tells me. “I had shows lined up and everything when Andrew started to get these headaches. We wondered if it was the change of city, the water or the fact he wasn’t working. It was getting bad so we decided he’d see a doctor when we came back in August for a three-week holiday. He went to the doctor, who sent him for a scan. When we got the results they told us he had cancer of the brain. They needed to operate straight away. Three days later he was having surgery.”

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