Russell T Davies issues warning to parents ahead of Doctor Who’s return
Russell T Davies issues warning to parents ahead of Doctor Who’s return
David Tennant is returning for three episodes to mark the show’s 60th anniversary
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while Doctor Who has had kids hiding behind the sofas in fear for six decades, Davies has shared that not all of the episodes will be appropriate for children to watch at all.
The writer behind It’s A Sin and Years and Years explained that he had thought of his eight-year-old self while creating the new episodes, and accepted that kids would be watching, even though “it’s not a children’s show”.
Of the three episodes, series opener The Star Beast, which airs on 25 November and centres on a furry creature called a Meep (voiced by Miriam Margolyes), is the most child-friendly, Davies explained.
“It is like a great big Pixar family film, like a bank holiday film – all the family watching, lots of laughs, a funny monster,” he said.
However, the following two episodes will not be appropriate for children, Davies warned. “The second one, Wild Blue Yonder, is darker. Not scary – it’s genuinely weird,” he said.
“We do very scary stuff. Some stuff is quite violent. It’s not for children, it’s about children.”
As someone who has watched every one of the new who episodes with at least one of my children, this is sad news. While all of my children are now adults or very close to it, what about when they have kids? Or just kids in general? Save the non kids stuff for Torchwood.
It can't be that scary, his paymasters will want to maximise eyeballs on this. It's likely hype as we've had some scary Doctor Who episodes before (especially in Tom Baker's run - The Brain of Morbius still haunts me. I nearly ran out of the Doctor Who exhibition when I stumbled across the suit) and, unless he starts splashing the claret around, I doubt it's going to require much more than hiding behind the couch (how I dealt with it back in the day).
I suspect it will be still family viewing, just a little dark for some young kids to watch solo maybe
I suspect this is mostly RTD spouting off for publicity's sake and he's just being much more cognizant of the inevitable outrage about people screaming and dying onscreen in an ostensibly family show. After all the show has been through THAT before. He's getting ahead of it. Probably.