I read it in the Times

Today's new york times has a profile of Russell T Davies.

Russell T Davies Interview To Read

This interview with Russell T Davies has some interesting little spoilers and cameo reports that I'm sure will be very interesting to some of you.

Doctor Who after Russell

Another article about Russell T Davies -- and this one also goes on about what Russell will do after Doctor Who.

I think it's an interesting question -- is this new Doctor Who so defined by Russell T Davies that it'll go back into hibernation when he has told all of the Doctor Who stories that he wants to tell?

I'd like to think that Doctor Who can just continue on and on -- and I believe that it is an ever green concept, like Superman, Batman, James Bond, Robin Hood, or Sherlock Holmes, that will be brought back on a regular basis and every "generation" deserves their own version.

At the same time, best to enjoy it while it is here.

Seeing the future

A couple of interesting thoughts as I read this interview with Russell T Davies in the lead up to series three.

First of all, there's the (unsurprising) news that a fourth series has been commissioned. But I wonder if that'll be the last series of the Russell T Davies era. There are certainly hints that could be the case -- "This is one of the reasons why Davies is ready for a new challenge" and "If you stay too long somewhere you start missing out on chances like that."

And while we've proven that the new series can comfortably change Doctors, and I am sure that we'll show that it can change companions with the next series, the big question will be whether it can change lead writers. I don't think there's any reason to believe that Doctor Who needs to end with the departure of Russell -- it is a series designed to run and run, constantly refreshing itself.

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One other amusing thing about that article is how they over-play The Ten Doctors play as a stage production at Gallifrey One this year. It was amusing, but it was by no stretch of the imagination a serious stage production of Doctor Who. There have been a few "serious" stage productions over the years, and I've imagined that one could do something like Tomb of the Cybermen very effectively as a stage production, but that wasn't what we saw at Gallifrey.