Some major changes are coming for the eleventh series of Doctor Who including a new showrunner and thirteenth incarnation of the iconic Time Lord, but perhaps even more intriguing is the fact that the upcoming series could shift from an episodic format to following a singular storyline.
Incoming showrunner Chris Chibnail spoke to the Royal Television Society about taking over the reins of the long-running British sci-fi show, stating that: “I finally said yes because I love the show to my bones. I resisted it for a very long time, and [the BBC] really had to woo me…But, in the end, I had ideas about what I wanted to do with it. When I went to them and said, ‘This is what I would do’, I actually expected them to say, ‘Ooh, let’s talk about that’, but they said: ‘Great!’”
The kicker is that when asked if the season could follow one storyline, Chibnail said “Yes. What the BBC was after was risk and boldness.”
Chibnail is familiar, and likely most comfortable, with season-long storytelling, as seen from his success with the crime drama Broadchurch.
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Originally published June 14, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
