Pete McTighe

Obviously...

Yeah, well, it's, Pete McTighe said that he's already been approached by production companies to be part of their pitch, which sort of goes along with what we were saying when the tender was previewed, that there will be production companies all over the UK that go down into their bunkers and into their pre-production offices and-

Yeah

... start working something up.

That, they're, they're, they're-

Then fine

... they'll be on the phone to Pete McTighe.

They'll be like, "Look-

It depends if the writing's good enough.

That's not going to be Russell, Pete McTighe or anything like that, so it's going to be fine.

I don't know.

You've got to get the writing good enough to get people back in their seats to come back to watch Doctor Who.

I mean, we all know in the end, it's probably going to be like a Clued Oversell.

It's probably going to be Pete McTighe with BBC Studios in Cardiff.

Like, we all know that's what's going to happen.

But this time, it's like an exciting Wilderness Years where anything can happen in a good way.

This feels like, could you kind of do RTD Doctor Who, just not with RTD, please?

Well, if I was going to put on my negative hat, I'd say, yeah, look, I think this is probably going to end up as BBC Studios winning and Pete McTighe taking over the show and not much changing.

Because I guess there are two sides to this coin that we want Doctor Who to do something new, but at the same time, I think the broader audience wouldn't want to see it do anything too radical.

Yeah.

They certainly haven't slammed the door shut, and let's face it, it wouldn't really be a proper tender process if they were.

But I do think your comment is correct, Rob, and your comments over the last six to eight months are becoming, I think, more and more correct, and that is exactly what you said.

We are heading towards, it seems, an inevitable path of BBC Studios making Doctor Who in-house, probably with Pete McTighe as the showrunner.

Before we get off this, just briefly, our good mate JMS, Joe Michael Straczynski, got asked by a fan on X who said to him, my thoughts about reading this tender were, is there a JMS bat signal? The doctor needs you.

... as well.

Can I, can I mention one more thing, and then we'll move on? I had a lovely conversation with, uh, Pete McTighe.

And, um, I...

If he...

Mm.

Um, yeah.

Cool geezer, Pete McTighe.

McTighe.He is a cool geezer.

That's exactly the sort of people we need working on Doctor Who.

Um, on the other side of that, Pete McTighe said that he has been approached by different production companies about-

Mm

...

We had a conversation about this, didn't we?

How do you feel about Pete McTighe taking the reins? Is it Tighe or T?

Pass.

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