{"id":1066,"date":"2005-03-30T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/03\/dr_who_recommis\/"},"modified":"2005-03-30T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T17:01:47","slug":"dr_who_recommis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/dr_who_recommis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Who Recommissioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Who&#8217;s already got a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,7493,1448436,00.html\">second series<\/a> (free reg. reqd.) and a Christmas special.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d suggest that Mediaguardian&#8217;s spin on Ecclestone and Piper not returning is a fuss about nothing since, as the article says, there&#8217;ll have been options for at least one more series written into their contracts at the outset.<br \/>\n[UPDATE]\nErm. It seems my &#8220;suggestion&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/4395849.stm\">wrong<\/a> and Ecclestone has actually quit with reports that David Tennant will be stepping into his place.<br \/>\nThis raises a couple of questions:<br \/>\n1) Why did he take the role in the first place if he wasn&#8217;t up for doing at least a couple of series? You don&#8217;t normally go into a recurring series with the aim of leaving so quickly do you? Unless that was the plan all along.<br \/>\n2) And why did his contract not stipulate more work than that? In the US options for a five year stint would be normal, although actors can get out of it early, they&#8217;re not popular if they do so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Who&#8217;s already got a second series (free reg. reqd.) and a Christmas special. I&#8217;d suggest that Mediaguardian&#8217;s spin on Ecclestone and Piper not returning is a fuss about nothing since, as the article says, there&#8217;ll have been options for at least one more series written into their contracts at the outset. [UPDATE] Erm. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}