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As Doctor Who: Adventures was ordered for two series, during the production of the first, Series 2 went into production straight after Series 1 wrapped. In actuality the ten episodes in the series were completed long before the January release, due to this, but it was decided to hold back the episodes until this time,
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In January 2020, not long after CBS (owner of 50% of the Doctor Who TV licence) merged with Viacom (the owner’s of Paramount Pictures, who themselves owned the Doctor Who Movie licence), the new company, ViacomCBS commissioned a report into the future of the Doctor Who franchise, amidst it’s new ownership, alongside the BBC. The
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Doctor Who: Adventures was the third revival of a former Doctor to the screen in just a year and a half, with the Twelfth Doctor returning to the big screen in 2018 and the Eleventh Doctor getting his own adult oriented spinoff series. Jane Espenson, the Franchise Executive, in the wake of a lot of
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Conceived as ammunition in the CBS and Paramount rivalry, by disgruntled CEO, Les Moonves, Doctor Who: The New Renegade made it to the screen in a vastly different context to the one it was conceived in. A CBS All Access Original Series, the show was created to be everything Paramount would hate – they had,
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Season 54 was treated as Series 2, and although it doesn’t actually feature any of the TARDIS team from Series 1, it does pick up, airing wise, just a week after Series 1, and features exactly the same production team, as well as the same look and feel as the previous season. Season 54, therefore,
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The second season of Dokter Wie was commissioned soon after the first season finished airing. Not much changed between the two seasons behind the scenes and production was pretty swift, with the show airing a year after the first. De Thuisplaneet Season 2, Episode 1 Written by MAARTEN VAN DER DUIN Directed by Tim Oliehoek
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The fifth season of the Elysium was announced to be the final season of the show. Two main differences were in place from the fourth season however, firstly it was not aired in two parts and instead throughout the entire Autumn season, and secondly, it lasted for 16 episodes rather than 12, as Toni Graphia
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Mysteriet Doktorn premiered in Sweden on 16 August 2019, with it’s English dub airing on BBC Four on the following Saturday, as with Dokter Wie and Mysteriet Doktorn. The BBC did consider taking the bilingual approach to Mysteriet Doktorn, but decided to use the Polish version to trial the concept instead. The showrunner of the
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The third foreign adaptation to air, was TVN’s ‘Doktor – przez czas i przestrzen’, from Poland. This adaptation aired from 9 June to 11 August 2019 in both Poland and the United Kingdom, unlike the first two adaptations which were aired a few days earlier in their home countries. However, in the UK, unlike the
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Each of the four foreign adaptations had to cater to different audiences, but Doctor Misterio had probably the hardest job of them all, because if successful then the show could potentially be syndicated to dozens and dozens of countries, due to the high amount, especially in South America, which speaks Spanish. This also gave CBS
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