[AaronTV]

It's a symptom of the BBC not putting the money where their mouth is - You do get a feel they rather splash the budget on Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors, rather than Doctor Who. Just a view I have, you don't have to agree with me. Let's disagree, I am just making my view.

Nobody denies you are entitled to a view, but you are making meaningless comparisons - American shows with 22 episodes a season, for example, will mostly be studio based sitcoms or procedural dramas with minimal special effects. Strictly and The Traitors are different shows, productions and genres entirely so there is little value in comparing them IMO.

Doctor Who has an enormous amount of work to do for every single episode in post-production - watch an episode back and start counting how many shots include a special effect. You’ll soon start to see why there is such a long production time. If anything, the longer production time (and more obviously the multi-million pound deal with Disney+) is an indication of how much higher the budget is for this series and how much of a priority the show is for the BBC.

RTD has also stated previously that it is his aim to work towards a higher episode count, but ultimately these things take time.