“It’s not a kids’ programme at all. It could have been a lot better. It could have been slightly better written, especially the last story. It was very clichéd, it was very routine – running up and down corridors and silly monsters.”
That’s Chris Chibnall said when he expressed his annoyance over an episode of Doctor Who starring Colin Baker at age 16 when he was representing the Doctor Who Appreciation Society in 1986 on Open Air, a BBC television panel discussion.
In an interview with the Telegraph, Chris Chibnall admitted that what he said on the panel was a “load of nonsense.”
“Imagine if something you did for 20 minutes when you were 16 has resonance when you are 30 years older. It’s kind of extraordinary,” he said, laughing. “Listen, I’m not saying I was right when I was 16 ‒ it was a load of nonsense.”
So what did he say can we expect from Doctor Who Series 11?
“Loads of running up and down corridors and loads of monsters.”
Doctor Who Series 11 premieres on BBC One at 6:45 p.m with The Woman Who Fell to Earth, to be simulcast in participating countries.
Tim Lister : too true my friend!!
The latest Doctor WHO is NOT Doctor WHO. Chibnall’s writing is terrible. I just watched the first episode with Jody Whitaker and I felt sick watching it. It simply didn’t look, feel, or sound, like Doctor WHO. He needs to go!
Of course he’d say that. He knows the same criticisms can be quite rightly leveled at his own work on the show.