5 Reasons Chibnall's Doctor Who Era Failed

The irregular scheduling of the show really doesn’t help fans to get excited about their favourite show. Over the past decade, we’ve faced a few shakeups to the scheduling but none of it has been as bad as it is now.

With Russell T Davies, we had a series begin in March/April and run right through. That carried on with Moffat until season six when the series was split and took an Americanised format with a mid-season finale. Whether that worked or not, it caused controversy at the time. The same with season seven, when that did the same. However, season seven made sense because it was two separate stories. After that, Moffat scrapped the split-seasons and just moved it to autumn…then back to spring/summer.

With Chibnall, however, it’s been all over the place. The first season was in Autumn 2018. Season twelve finally appeared in January 2020. Now we’re waiting for season thirteen. Understandably there has been a pandemic to deal with, which had a major impact on filming, but it hasn’t helped fans' attention spans. It makes it worse when we’ve been given nothing to get excited over and have a further reduced episode count.

It's frustrating that it's such simple things that could have been easily fixed, which have led Chibnall's era to fall flat, because overall, it hasn't been that bad. It could have just been so much better.