Doctor Who executive producer Piers Wenger has made some pretty big claims concerning the new series of the Beeb's flagship sci fi show.
In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Piers, who is working alongside fellow execs Steven Moffat and Beth Willis for series five, revealed that the revamped show has a "fairy-tale feel".
"We just wanted to make the show look as up-to-date as it possibly could," he explained. "One of the qualities in Steven's writing, and one of Steven's natural tendencies as a writer, is to write these strange, dark, glittering fairy tales.
"We wanted to give the look of the series a slightly more storybook, fairy-tale feel.
"It wasn't about suddenly becoming Tim Burton, but it was finding a pinch of that, a pinch of Twilight, a pinch of Harry Potter - but it's still absolutely, slap-bang, mainstream Doctor Who.
"It's a bigger, more brilliant challenge," he added. "Just the stories, by nature, have to be slightly baffling, but have a really rigorous logic behind why they're baffling - and they should be baffling in a good way."
Hmm... are we the only ones beginning to worry that Who might have lost its way?
In an interview with Doctor Who Magazine, Piers, who is working alongside fellow execs Steven Moffat and Beth Willis for series five, revealed that the revamped show has a "fairy-tale feel".
"We just wanted to make the show look as up-to-date as it possibly could," he explained. "One of the qualities in Steven's writing, and one of Steven's natural tendencies as a writer, is to write these strange, dark, glittering fairy tales.
"We wanted to give the look of the series a slightly more storybook, fairy-tale feel.
"It wasn't about suddenly becoming Tim Burton, but it was finding a pinch of that, a pinch of Twilight, a pinch of Harry Potter - but it's still absolutely, slap-bang, mainstream Doctor Who.
"It's a bigger, more brilliant challenge," he added. "Just the stories, by nature, have to be slightly baffling, but have a really rigorous logic behind why they're baffling - and they should be baffling in a good way."
Hmm... are we the only ones beginning to worry that Who might have lost its way?
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