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Doctor Who’s Officially Been Put Up For Tender
There’s hope.
So the announcement was made earlier this week that the tendering process is starting.
For those that don’t know, put out to tender basically means the BBC is calling for pitches for the future of the show from potential production teams.
An interesting surprise for everyone is that the process will end on October 2nd and there’s hope to have broadcast by 2028 or 2029.
Besides that, there’s some little statements here and there about not being married to the showrunner role for the show and maybe not getting bogged down in lore.
Its also worth mentioning that the BBC will put its own name in the runnning so something will happen no matter what.
A lot of fans are pretty hopeful and I am as well. Some people had been acting a bit pessimistic and there were even some comments by Chibnall that the money isn’t there and general comments by Mark Gatiss that the show needed a break.
Some people even said we were in the New Wilderness Years, the Wilderness Years being the name given to the time between the 1989 cancellation of the original era and the 2005 revival.
This puts a bit of that to the side for now as we all hope for a new era.
