...there is a lot of information on this website below that blows my mind away about the new series of Doctor Who... there's too much information to post so I'll only show some excerpts from it... from this link below... I do recommend that you read the whole page for yourself though... it's worth it... I'm just a tad bit worried that our beloved show is in the dire chance of becoming 'Americanised' with the Production of the show in regards to the writing area and will not be 'unique' any longer that's all... so many big changes... hopefully for the better eh?... cheers.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor...-11-air-date-cast-trailer-episodes-companion/
(1)... It's now been officially confirmed how many episodes we'll be getting in 2018 -
with just 10 as opposed to the recent standard of 12. However, they'll be longer outings - 50 minutes, rather than 45.
The series opener will be even longer - though it was originally announced to be running to an hour, it'll actually span
a full 65 minutes!
(2)... It sounds like we're in for a total refresh. Mark Gatiss – who's contributed a script every year since
Doctor Who returned in 2005 – initially admitted that
he was unsure if he'd continue under Chibnall.
"I don't have a permanent position around the table," Gatiss said. "It's one of those moments, you don't know what's happening."
Gatiss later confirmed that he
wouldn't be returning for series 11 - he insisted that, while Chibnall had
left the door open for him,
2018's episodes would all be written by "new people".
(3)... rumour has it that Chibnall might be
looking into new ways of writing
Doctor Who. While both Moffat and his predecessor
Russell T Davies would for the most part develop storylines and episode concepts that they would either write themselves or hand off to others,
Chibnall is said to be adopting a writers' room, similar to that used in US television.
Under the new system, Chibnall would lead a group of writers in hashing out storylines for each series together, though the BBC insisted back in 2016 that "no fixed model" for crafting
Doctor Who in the new era had been decided upon – at least at that point.
(4)...
On the musical side of things, composer Murray Gold - a mainstay of Doctor Who since it returned in 2005 - has announced he's departed the series. No word yet on his replacement, though
Broadchurch composer Ólafur Arnalds has
ruled himself out.
(5)...
There'll also be a change in terms of visual effects: Milk VFX, who've worked on the show since 2013, have been replaced by new firm
Double Negative,
who recently worked on the effects for Blade Runner 2049.
(6)...Whatever happens next, it would appear that the show's future is secure, with a recent press release appearing to confirm
not just series 11, but series 12 through 15.
(7)...
Chibnall apparently has a "five-year" plan for the series... and he won't be playing it safe. "What the BBC was after was risk and boldness," he said in June 2017.
He'll be joined on this journey by
Sam Hoyle (
Broadchurch) and Matt Stevens (
Misfits), who'll both serve as co-executive producers.
Happy times and places – with plenty more adventures in time and space to come...