Series 10 to Start Filming in May 2016?

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Steven Moffat may have confirmed that Series 10 will comprise of 12 episodes plus a Christmas special, but when it’ll air is a huge question right now.

Previous series have begun filming in January of each year, but according to Michael Pickwoad, the brilliant Production Designer whose worked on the sets since 2010’s A Christmas Carol, Series 10 might only start shooting in May 2016.

This flies in the face of Moffat’s comments:

“I know that what I’ve signed on to do is 13 more episodes of Doctor Who – including a Christmas special. I’m trying to argue for slightly more than that, but we’ll see. It’s all in action, it’s not that long away. It’s really close.”

“Really close” might not be the case for viewers, however; if the series does, indeed, go in front of the cameras in May next year, CultBox reckons it’s “almost certainly impossible” for the whole run to air in 2016. It can take around 9 months to complete one series, so yes, that’s a fair reasoning.

So what might we be in store for? Perhaps a split series, across 2016 and 2017, similar to Series 7 – which began with Asylum of the Daleks in 2012 but had a break after Amy and Rory left the TARDIS. This then picked up again with 2013’s The Bells of St. John.

Earlier this week, Peter Capaldi was asked on BBC Radio 1 when he starts filming again, to which he replied:

“I think next year… at some point.”

Private Eye previously reported:

“BBC staff have recently been informed that showrunner Steven Moffat’s commitments to his other hit show Sherlock mean that there will be no full series of Doctor Who in 2016.”

Rumour had it that specials, like those during 2009, would run across the year, but that’s looking unlikely right now.

Would a break help or hinder Doctor Who? It might at least give the BBC time to reconsider how they’re publicising the show, and give it a fresh approach that engages the mass audience, not just us dedicated fans.

What d you think…?

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