As mentioned above, in addition to the television series, there is also a range of audio adventures being produced. There is also a range of tie-in books from the BBC. Also out there is the range of New Adventures from the 90s, the Missing Adventure, the BBC Eight Doctor Books, The Telos Novellas, etc. For a new fan coming to the series this is just overwhelming. Twenty-Six seasons of the classic show on their own are a tremendous amount of backstory to try to catch up on without even starting on the rest of it.
5. The New Series' Scheduling
For the first few years of the new series things were fairly dependable. The new season would premiere in the spring, run for twelve weeks, then would be done until Christmas Day. While the gap between the end of the series and Christmas was a little on the long side, at least you knew where you were. Then we had the year of five specials instead of a new season due to a combination of David Tennant's schedule and the collapse of the global economy, and for most of that year the BBC couldn't even tell us when the third special was going to be on until a few weeks before it aired. Since then the production team appears to just throw a dart at a calendar and start to air the new series then with only a few weeks warning. Fortunately this past year Fandom had something else to obsess about to pass the time...
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