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Doctor Who Keeps Audience Guessing
6-Jul-2008
Written by: Marshall Burns
Doctor Who seems to be able to keep audiences guessing for each episode because of agreements people sign and other subterfuge.
The last episode of Doctor Who on BBC One has left its fans in furious debate. The star, David Tennant, was blasted by a Dalek raising the question of whether he would be leaving the show or not.
BBC News entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba has taken a look at how the show’s plot twists are kept secret and the agreements that are signed to keep them hidden.
Much of the storytelling in television is reliant on keeping the audience out of the loop until the final possible second so that they may continue to be interesting, according to the BBC. It is much harder in this day and age to keep things surprising for the fans with the advent of the Internet.
Dozens of Internet sites are dedicated to the Gallifreyan Time Lord, which makes it a huge challenge to keep under wraps what will happen in the series finale of Doctor Who. A majority of the shows on television don’t get this many fans combing the Internet for spoilers, but few such as Doctor Who and Heroes and Lost do, according to the BBC.
The thing about this information that fans can find on Web sites is that very little of it is actually any sort of plausible. One of the ways the producers of the show were able to keep the ending secret was that they didn’t even send journalists a preview DVD. Though there are still those that work on the show that could surreptitiously reveal what happens. There are only vague answers when it comes to the Doctor Who series and that’s just the way the team behind the show wants it. They want the biggest possible audience to be in front of the TV enjoying it at the same time as everyone else, according to BBC.
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