Britain’s BBC has shown a tremendous ability to self-harm in recent years. First of all, it took the world’s most watched factual television show – Top Gear – and destroyed it while watching the presenters go on to make a huge success of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm.
Then, just to put the cherry on top, they took what the Guinness World Records organisation officially lists as the longest-running and most successful sci-fi television show of all time – Doctor Who – and broke that as well.
After returning to great numbers, huge fan base and general excitement in the mid-2000’s, it has now been forced into a lifeless hiatus after collapsing into its own showrunner’s personal politics and being rejected by viewers.
So what will the BBC try and do about it? Well, according to a recent report in The Times, they have been in discussion with Stargate and Independence Day producer Dean Devlin.
The report claimed that the BBC wanted him, and that David Tennant was in talks to return to the role, after a plot point in the last two seasons left that route open within the mythology.
Devlin has pushed back, gently, on these rumors, saying that no discussions have taken place, but that he hopes they will. Speaking to The Radio Times he said:
“It is untrue that we have had negotiations with the BBC. Preliminary or otherwise. When the proper time comes when they are prepared to speak with people, we certainly hope to have a discussion with them.”
Tennant worked with Devlin’s production company on Bad Samaritan.
It is presumed that this is part of the often mentioned competitive tender for a new producing partner for the BBC to work alongside.
