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Doctor Who plans “movie-length” episodes

Filming has begun on Series 7 of Doctor Who in Cardiff and fans are in for a bumper treat.

Filming has begun on Series 7 of Doctor Who in Cardiff and fans are in for a bumper treat.

The show marks its climactic 50th anniversary year with fourteen movie-length episodes -borrowing from Sherlock perhaps?

Each a brand new epic adventure features new monsters and familiar foes as we’ve never seen them before.

This series will also include the exit of Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill.

On returning for his third series as the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith says, “It’s thrilling and exciting to be back and working with two of my closest friends.”

New guest stars so far confirmed to star will include Rupert Graves, Mark Williams and David Bradley. There have also been rumours of filming in Spain and Australia, but none have been confirmed.

Source: doctorwhosite

9 Responses

  1. Don’t forget though that Series 7 will air in two parts like they did with Series 6.

    Series 7 is said to be going to air in the UK Autumn, then stop; have the Christmas Special with the rest of Series 7 airing in Spring 2013.

    They where also saying that Series 8 was to be following straight after Series 7 in 2013, to celebrate the 50th anniversary.

    By memory it is all having to work around the London Olympics this year I think.

  2. @Craig – Generally, a Doctor Who episode takes about a fortnight to film, but it’s slightly complicated by being filmed in blocks (if a production block is allocated six weeks, the first and last weeks may be used for any given episode, and a number of days in between, which could mean an episode is filmed a lot longer). A two-part story takes about four weeks.

    I don’t think they are movie length episodes – there’s been no mention of length anywhere, and production is eleven months, which is only two months longer than usual. They’d be pushing pretty hard to film 14 ninety minute episodes in that time. The production work on Doctor Who takes considerably longer than Sherlock, or an American drama because of the effects.

  3. Just wondering making each ep longer would involve more scenes but how much more time does it take to produce. From past experience they take a lot longer than the usual US drama to film each ep, US about 8 days for a 1 hours show, I’ve heard it’s 3-4 weeks for each Doctor Who episode, is this true?

  4. I admit that I read it as “blockbuster movie episodes” referring to the scope of the production too, I don’t see any mention in the original article about “movie length”. Perhaps they’ll be 60 minute episodes though?

  5. I’ll admit it reads as an April Fool’s Day joke (obviously too early for it to be one ) . Also as the Anniversary is next year when do these episodes air? Because if this year they are early and if next then we miss out this year. Lastly why what looks like a scissor attack on Matt’s hair? 😉

    Thanks David.

  6. I misread that at first, I thought it said 4 but wow 14 movie length eps, that’s like 28 normal eps, Doctor Who overload!

    I know DW has quite a delay between shooting and them airing so I guess we won’t be seeing them for a while.

  7. I’m not sure if they’re going to be longer or not. The only part of the BBC press release that could make me think that is the “blockbuster-movie episodes” but I just figured that was referring to the production rather than length. Either way it’s still bound to be an amazing series.

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