EClark1894 opened this issue on Jul 17, 2017 ยท 56 posts
mrsparky posted Wed, 19 July 2017 at 7:55 PM
Some of the arguments I've heard amongst friends include...
In the 1st series the character was originally written/described as "a kindly Grandfather", so it goes against the concept.
Sometimes characters are male, for example Poirot, Sherlock Holmes or Father Christmas. Others female like Marple or Tennison and it's their gender that makes the character. Change it, to say a male Hetty Wainthropp, and you lose something.
For the price of 1 episode of Dr Who, you could get a couple of series of "edited" reality shows, so makes sense to try and nobble Who.
Personally my lowly non-BBC-presenter salary 
is on stuff like media politics and writing.
The beeb has moved to Manchester and wants to be more reflective of modern Britain, focus on regions, diverse culture etc etc. They also want to distance themselves from whats seen as old school "London" focused programming.
With writing, (especially hollywood movies) it seems like theres a constant need to "reboot" everything.