https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-mark-gatiss-adventure-space-time-exclusive-newsupdate/
There are other periods of Doctor Who's history that could be explored.
Thanks to the glorious shovelling of Classic Who onto BBC IPlayer, I have been enjoying a glut of mid-80s classic Who.
It struck me how many of the CBaker-McCoy era stories are dystopian tales, reflecting the pro-establishment neo-captialist society that the writers felt was being inflicted on them.
Varos, Paradise Towers and Terra Alpha (of Happiness Patrol) are obvious examples; Necros (Revelation of the Daleks) and is a particularly nasty one. Even Trial of a Timelord was, at its heart, a tale of authoritarianism and narrative control.
Modern Britain is clearly in another phase like the 80s. If anything, the authoritarianism is more extreme, and the government's avarice more naked.
So where are the writers' reactions to that nowadays? Whenever the show has recently attempted to address societal issues, it has been either a direct sermon like Orphan 55 or an incompetent muddle like Kerblam.
Where are the dystopias?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/04/suella-braverman-says-rough-sleeping-is-lifestyle-choice
Home secretary criticised for tweets vowing to restrict use of tents by homeless people ‘many of them from abroad’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/31/covid-inquiry-exposes-incompetence-backstabbing-and-misogyny
WhatsApp messages also reveal Boris Johnson’s dismissive attitude to millions of old people at risk from the virus
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/25/conservative-mp-peter-bone-suspended-for-six-weeks
MPs approve sanction after watchdog finds Wellingborough MP harassed and bullied staff member and exposed his genitals
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/doctor-who-60th-anniversary-specials-premiere-dates-trailer-1235627761/
David Tennant and Catherine Tate will battle Neil Patrick Harris' villain in the three specials.
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