Rent Doctor Who: New Series 11 (2018)

I can't give this Zero Starts - Doctor Who: New Series 11 review by MA

Confession time .... I am 55 years old woman. That's it, but during my life I have grown up with Dr Who. From the days in my playpen in-front of the old B&W TV to today's vast wide screens. It is always disconcerting when faced with a regeneration and a new actor takes the place of a beloved character; it has also led to new adventures and vile villains to defeat against all odds.

For the first time of being a loyal follower of the series I turned the TV off. It was an immensely sad decision but I was being preached to about how I should accept this or that and was so busy giving an extremist agenda that there was no story and no adventure to follow and cheer on the Doctor and her companions. It takes the position that people are not accepting of differences and must be force fed with it, whereas people as accepting but dislike it being forced on them thereby making differences and divides

Now it has become an agenda based program of tick boxes

The doctor has become focused on a northern accent and forgets to be the doctor

The police officer is as wet as a wet weekend and I would not rely on her to look for a lost cat

The young man with issues needed help rather than being taken across the universe

And the "older" bloke was just there to constantly say how old he is

Does this show the agenda of the BBC to preach an extreme agenda rather than entertain and give a balanced view Perhaps, but it has destroyed a rather fantastic series.

Good acting but she is in the wrong film - Doctor Who: New Series 11 review by MB

The new doctor tries hard and does a good job. But I've always known the doctor as a well spoken gentleman. Now he has turned into a woman with a Liverpuddlian accent who can't talk properly (sorry but 'think I of ought to' or whatever it was is not good English). It felt a bit like turning up to a Tomb Raider movie to find the main character has become a fat bloke from Ireland.

I agree with the other reviews. I do feel Doctor Who is turning into an exercise in political correctness for the sake of it.

I love wellies! - Doctor Who: New Series 11 review by NP

As a fan of Doctor Who for many years (since the Sea Devils stomped out of the waters to menace Jon Pertwee in the early 1970s in fact), I found this latest incarnation of the show quite good. There has clearly been a decision to cut back on the continuity so beloved of recent series (which some felt alienated viewers who didn't have an A Level in Time Lord history), and it is true to say the plots have been simplified a little in favour of reeling in new viewers. New Doctor Jodie Whittaker isn't as eccentric as some earlier incarnations, but she still has moments of delightful silliness. This is still very much Doctor Who, only Chris Chibnall-style, as opposed to Steven Moffat/RTD/JNT etc-style (tick as appropriate).

For anyone who sees this series as agenda-driven, or box-ticking, there are those who found fault in previous incarnations of the show (agenda-driven is an ongoing criticism, with each show-runner accused of a different agenda). At the heart of it, for me, there's a likeable new Doctor, three very appealing (and very 'real') time-travelling companions (or friends), and some great stories (The Woman Who Fell to Earth, Kerblam!, The Witchfinders and It Takes You Away), some good (Arachnids in the UK, The Ghost Monument, Rosa) and a couple of howlers (The Tsuranga Conundrum, Demons of the Punjab). So for all the change, in many ways, it's business as usual!