{"id":17708,"date":"2011-09-28T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=17708"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:18:11","slug":"doctor-who-confidential-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/doctor-who-confidential-axed\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Confidential Axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/confidential1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17710\" title=\"confidential\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/confidential1-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/confidential1-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/confidential1.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The BBC is axing Doctor Who Confidential due to spending cuts, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/sep\/28\/doctor-who-confidential-axed\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>. The corporation faces budget cuts of up to 20% across its output and BBC controller Zai Bennett has decided to cut the BBC 3 spin-off show at the end of this series&#8217; run.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking last month at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Bennett said: &#8220;It&#8217;s about focusing my budget on 9pm and 10.30pm; those are the time slots that count. Budgets are tight, so we have to be sensible with the money we have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the BBC said: &#8220;Doctor Who Confidential has been a great show for BBC3 over the years but our priority now is to build on original British commissions, unique to the channel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Who Confidential has been following new Who since it returned to screens in 2005 and we&#8217;ll be sad to see it go. What do you guys think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The show falls victim to spending cuts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":17709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1,140,207],"tags":[247,2142],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/confidential.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}