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Well American shows can produce more episodes with good quality, why can't Doctor Who? 18 to 20 episodes are the norm for prime time American dramas, and as I said with the extra money from the Disney deal, increasing it from 8 to say 12 episodes per season shouldn't really be an issue, money wise.

Also RTD seems to have chosen to start production very early, this must be the longest gap between when a series of Doctor Who has been filmed, and when it airs. If you have the right enough budget, post production and filming will be done easily I assume.

I know I will hear people say the BBC is short of cash, but RTD did say this Disney deal for the international streaming rights, was one way to ensure big budget shows like Doctor Who can still be made.

Technically speaking, it's 9 episodes a year and it's expensive to make shows like this with lots of CGI. House of the Dragon is 8 episodes for the upcoming season and that show is very expensive to make.

You can't just magic up money and episodes, that's a very naive view of budgets work. You're looking at this like it's 2004, not 2024.