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6/30/2025, 3:02:08 PM
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Doctor Who is another series that capitalised on a new audience and deliberately shyed away from its past baggage.
Doctor Who began in the 1950's, it is a very old series with many many episodes. However it was cancelled at the end of the 1980's after a long and painful decline into irrelevancy.
This death however, served to the 2005's reboot's benefit. By being dead for several decades, many people forgot it even existed, many people were born having never heard of it.
And so, the people that tuned in to watch the 2005 reboot were new fans who were not even aware the old show existed. And the show was written with this mind, you are never once required to watch the old episodes to understand anything in the new episodes.
If they had simply picked up where they left off after the 1980's, it would have been a total flop
Doctor Who is another series that capitalised on a new audience and deliberately shyed away from its past baggage.
Doctor Who began in the 1950's, it is a very old series with many many episodes. However it was cancelled at the end of the 1980's after a long and painful decline into irrelevancy.
This death however, served to the 2005's reboot's benefit. By being dead for several decades, many people forgot it even existed, many people were born having never heard of it.
And so, the people that tuned in to watch the 2005 reboot were new fans who were not even aware the old show existed. And the show was written with this mind, you are never once required to watch the old episodes to understand anything in the new episodes.
If they had simply picked up where they left off after the 1980's, it would have been a total flop
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