New 'Doctor Who' like 'Twilight', 'Potter'

[kricket]

New 'Doctor Who' like 'Twilight', 'Potter'
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Thursday, March 4 2010, 14:53 GMT

By Dan French, US TV Editor

The new series of Doctor Who has Twilight and Harry Potter-like elements to it, the executive producers have revealed.

Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, Piers Wenger - who is working alongside fellow execs Steven Moffat and Beth Willis for series five - said that they wanted it to have a "fairy-tale feel".

"We just wanted to make the show look as up-to-date as it possibly could," Wenger explained. "One of the qualities in Steven's writing, and one of Steven's natural tendencies as a writer, is to write these strange, dark, glittering fairy tales.

"We wanted to give the look of the series a slightly more storybook, fairy-tale feel - within reason."

He added: "It wasn't about suddenly becoming Tim Burton, but it was finding a pinch of that, a pinch of Twilight, a pinch of Harry Potter - but it's still absolutely, slap-bang, mainstream Doctor Who.

[Speckled Jim]

Fine, just as long as there are no moody, monosyllabic, pubescent teenage vampires pouting all over the shop.

[Sulp Niar]

Well, there ARE vampires in one of the stories, so you never know... but I strongly suspect this is bland marketing spiel and pretty inaccurate marketing spiel at that.

[DrJones]

Sounds like they really are trying to market this Doctor to the younger generation if that is their spiel. Gen X (and older) viewers might be on the outer as suspected after all.

BUT, we have to wait and see don't we... can't be seen to speculate too much

Not long to go though...glad that we only have to wait a couple of weeks after the UK this time though, and that they ABC is trying a new broadcast angle with premiering on iView first. Maybe the BBC realised that they annoyed their Aussie viewers after The End of Time delay. But I digress...

[Speckled Jim]

I wouldn't mind if they did aim it principally at Gen Y ... just means oldies like myself have to try a little harder to keep in touch with the zeitgeist. Never a simple task, but an interesting challenge nonetheless. But not Twilight, please - that's just Sweet Valley High with fangs.
In any case, I'm glad RTD has had the good sense to move on if for no other reason than it's time for a change at the top, and I really cannot wait to see what's going to happen to the longest running sci fi show in TV history in 2010. Bloody excited right here, I can tell you.

[DrJones]

I suppose that is true SpeckledJim And one thing that I do think that is truly clever about Doctor Who is its ability to regenerate itself and even contain different genres of writing within the one program. No wonder it is one of the longest running Sci-fi shows in history. It has this wonderful abilty to reinvent itself and never get tired.

[jfisher01]

Well, there ARE vampires in one of the stories, so you never know... but I strongly suspect this is bland marketing spiel and pretty inaccurate marketing spiel at that.

It's just the press making a massive deal out of absolutely nothing. I've read the interview in question, and it's a single sentence in about 6 pages. I'm bloody sick of the press making everything out of nothing.

[Dog Star]

I suppose that is true SpeckledJim And one thing that I do think that is truly clever about Doctor Who is its ability to regenerate itself and even contain different genres of writing within the one program. No wonder it is one of the longest running Sci-fi shows in history. It has this wonderful abilty to reinvent itself and never get tired.

And so say all of us!!
This is a show that is bigger than Potter, Twilight, Star This or Star That.
It steals, satirizes, extrapolates, improvises and innovates as occasions demand. But it NEVER just copies.
If the new mob feel the need to copy contempory culture, then the show is in the wrong hands.
But I suspect that Sulp Niar and Jfischer are probably right. It's just column filler and marketing B/S.
Doctor Who has always been a curious admixture of various styles. That is its great strength, and if the new custodians lose sight of that simple but great truth, then all is truly lost and we are staring down the barrel of cancellation.

(But I've read the Tarot cards and consulted the Stars and that ain't gonna happen.)
Geronimo!!