"Doctor Who is now one of the BBC's biggest flagship shows," he tells SFX. "And this sort of pattern will guarantee it being on air for twenty years.
"It's no good looking at that American pattern of making seven years if you're lucky - that's just not going to work. Who wants it to die after seven years? It's much bigger than that.
"It needs looking after, in the sense that it needs pauses, it needs its legend revamping every so often. If you build these pauses in now and say this will always happen, that's part of the plan now - it's literally a twenty year plan, which can't be guaranteed, because different people will be in charge in years to come - but if you present them with something rock solid, that is working, and has a unique transmission pattern that shouldn't be interfered with, then it will stay."
You can read the full interview in SFX 168 , on sale from Weds 12 March.
3 comments:
Ooh, I hope so! It would be so wonderful if SJA could just run and run!
*crosses fingers*
I'd love it to go on forever. Even if the younger cast grow up, they can be sorta replaced, right? Though I doubt Luke or Maria could, unless they go off to university.
Of course, the real question is whether Sarah Jane herself can stay for another decade and still be her spunky self. In that respect, the Sarah Jane Adventures does have a limited lifecycle. Doctor Who = immortal. Sarah Jane = not so much.
I don't know - that portrait in Lis Sladen's attic has got to lose its effectiveness eventually. After all, 20 years from now she'll be 80!
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