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Complaint against the 2005 series of Dr Who
Introduction
I am one of those
viewers who was severely disappointed by the relaunch of Dr Who in 2005. The
series seemed to be a gleeful distortion of the original series. I felt a
complaint to the BBC was justified.
The BBC only permits
complaints on matters such as offence and political bias, so a complaint that
the series had been remodeled on Eastenders would not be possible. The
complaint recorded on this website is therefore written within the limits of
the BBC's process.
The complaint
was first submitted to the BBC's Information Unit on 1 June 2005, and then to
the Editorial Complaints Unit on 18 October 2005. As the complaint progressed,
there seemed to be a distinct partiality by the BBC complaints team towards the
Dr Who Production Office. This website is therefore as much a study of how the
BBC responds to complaints, as it is a complaint against the 2005 series of Dr
Who.
The
correspondence was long and detailed, so it is broken it down into three
subject headings (Complaints 1, 2 and 3), followed by various correspondence
and the final Appeal to the Board of Governors on 18 May 2006.
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