Love to hear critics like Greer getting it so wrong - "the toys don't work, the stories are all over the place, they haven't made up their mind who it's for" etc. Ha ha.

I disagree with anyone who says its a 'childrens show'. Its a FAMILY show. If it was a kids show it would be on at 4:pm or thereabouts.

If she thinks THIS looks cheap I dread to think what she'd have thought about some of the shows from the 80's.

Doctor Who is far more then just a children's programme. It is now part of our pop culture. If it was kid friendly, it wouldn't be massive as it is now! :)

She was so wrong when she said it won’t travel, when it was HIT in other countries

Haha! " This won't travel" no offence to Bonnie Greer but who the Hell is she..? Ten years later Doctor Who is once again a TV phenomenon and could easily have another decade in it yet, if not longer. Meanwhile this Greer is completely unknown to me. If anything hasn't travelled its her XD

‘Billie Piper is eyecandy’ 2005 was a different era

16 years ago, but it feels like 4,000 years ago

I got slight pangs of nostalgia watching this and remembering what I was doing at the time, the world felt so much more simple and hopeful back then, things have gone pretty bad in the last ten years, and the TV show with it.

If Bonnie Greer thought NuWho looked cheap, what would she make of Classic Who?

Nah! It'll never catch on.

Bro if it was a family show then why was Jimmy savile's best friend Mary whitehouse trying to get it off the air?

In defence of Bonnie Greer, I don't think New Who really did travel that well at first, and it certainly hit its peak internationally when technology allowed for it to look less cheap. Also, keep in mind that Doctor Who always feels more special when it has naysayers and people that just don't get it, so try not to get so irrationally angry at her.

The small number of times I've watched post-2005 Doctor Who, I've always thought the more expensive it tries to look, the cheaper it seems - and not in a fond nostalgic way but in a dated 90s CGI blockbuster type way. I got the same impression from Spooks in comparison to 24 as well. I just feel the BBC is at its best when the main focus is dialogue over spectacle (and Sherlock works for me). Leave the expensive gloss to the Americans... Having said all that, I fucking love Peter Capaldi!

Ha Ha This won't travel. Quote of a lifetime

I never heard of this Greer woman before. Ian Rankin's cool.

"The thing looks really cheap". It might be an unpopular opinion, but I do agree with this. The soft lighting and cheap afternoon soap soundtrack. It's the hardest thing I find with going back to this season and Tennant's first series. Even harder because I love Eccleston's Doctor. It reminds me of CBBC programmes. But also I'll be clear, it kick-started into what it is now. Although I'd love a proper remaster, with an orchestrated soundtrack and some attempt at de-softening scenes with ai upscaling or something like that. In fact I think even just the soundtrack would hugely help.

I loved all doctor who.(though I have stopped watching the latest version on account of it being boring) But the criticisms are fair of the first episode... it’s wasn’t a slam dunk.., it did look a little cheap when compared to big American productions... and It wasn’t perfect.. Us fans were just relieved that it wasn’t terrible.. and we’d wanted new who for so long...we were relieved.. But I don’t think it really hit its stride until the ‘fathers day’ episode...and the series got better and better... the Matt smith ere were far more cinimatic... and the’ murrey gold’ score really peaked with ‘the pandorica suite’... I hope the current mess ‘doctor who’ is in can be fixed... we need some major retcon for the last series... If not.. I see it disappearing again... maybe to be discovered in smother 15 years..

I hate the way Greer sets herself up as being some kind of intellect - as an ex actress she's quite good at bringing the act off, but for people who listen carefully she talks absolute rubbish most of the time. (Off topic: I also hate the way they always bring her in to talk about "black" issues when she wasn't even born here and doesn't really understand what it is to be Black British)

Be fair she is only going by the first episode and I thought it sucked to when I first saw it. Took me a few episodes to get into doctor who. Now I'm a whovian for life

I like Doctor Who but Greer's comments are appropriate for the first episode and from someone who doesn't have any built-in cultural backstory on the character.

Bonnies point is fair enough. First time i had seen this and obviously she looking at it as someone who has never seen it or is not a fan. Not everyone is going to be a fan. Its like thinking everyone is a fan of The Beatles, because they were so big. First time ive seen Ian Rankin on anything, pretty cool guy. I have seen dr who and the new version is fantastic. It could have very easily have gone wrong

why is the logo the later one? 🤔

Clearly Bonnie Greer had no idea what Doctor Who was prior to this interview. Sadly, someone involved in this said "we need someone with no idea of the subject matter to give an "opinion" and she accepted the challenge (probably for the money) and thus this clip was born.

I think Bonnie Greer is great!

It's such a myth that budget is everything. So long as you can believe it enough at the start, you'll stay for the stories and characters and entertainment and the effects won't matter anymore. There's plenty of gorgeous things made now with no heart or no taste- suspension of disbelief is a tightrope and a hurdle, but you don't always need budget to make it work.

2021 the world's gone to shit and DW is still going hehe.

Well, she was wrong, huh?

His face is beautiful and mobile and that's the most important thing for kids? She's got some bizarre opinions

Oh honey I wish the Doctor had a male companion...

If you don’t know . Keep quiet your burying your self

Greer is probably a hate figure in the fandom by now.

Wow - doesn't she look silly now? 🤣 Erm... whoever she is...

My goodness Bonnies comments here have not aged well 😆

I don't agree with the American woman here, I thought it was great!!

I know it has a huge following overseas but I do wonder whether Americans and other nations really do 'get' Doctor Who, it's just so English and you only have to look at that awful TV Movie from the 90's to realise why that is the reason for it's success and longevity.

I don't mind classic Doctor Who but I have to say bringing it back to tv in the new millennium is a big mistake, especially for a Saturday night schedule on BBC One. It ruined the fantastic high quality Saturday night schedule of just gameshows such as Jim Davidson's Generation Game, Whatever You Want, Big Break Friends Like These, Dog Eat Dog, The National Lottery Stars, JetSet and Winning Lines, Casualty and Parkinson, only to be replaced by this and another crap show Strictly Come Dancing. It's all thanks to Lorraine Heggessey who ruined saturday nights on BBC One and she will never be forgiven for. Doctor Who should've moved to BBC Two and if I was to become controller of BBC One in the future, my first priority would be to axe this, and Strictly Come Dancing and Michael Mcintyre's big show and replace it with gameshows similar to 2001 and bring back The National Lottery. I would also axe The Graham Norton Show and bring children's programmes back to BBC One where they belong.

Wow, she really seems to hate it. It's kind of cringy, actually, watching her attempt to shred it, because she doesn't understand it. I thought the panel was comprised of _intelligent_ guests, but attacking something for lack of understanding is more a conservative, non intellectual approach.

Asking that American lady what she thought of Doctor Who.....not a good idea. Notice she instantly talked about the basic surface details...how it looked, the special effects, pumping money into it. This sort of reaction totally invalidates her opinion.

Bonnie Greer was absolutely correct in most of her points, these are the complaints Doctor Who fans have even now.

Bonnie Greer is right about a lot of what she says. You have to remember she has no history or attachment to the original series and is basing her opinion and review purely on that one single episode. For example she would have no idea about Bad Wolf being the season story arc. She wouldn't know about what would develop into the tedious dross of the Rose/Doctor loving each other. So saying she is wrong based on what happened over the remaining episodes and following seasons is ridiculous. I started watching the show back in 1970 and have seen everything since then and all available stuff from the first two Doctors. For me Doctor Who was must see TV even into my mid-twenties. I would schedule my going out around the show. My friends would meet up at 7pm I would join them later. These days I Sky+ the show and watch it whenever Often a week or more after it's initial broadcast. Depending on what's on the other channels or what is happening I don't care about watching the episode on Christmas Day. When I watched the first episode Rose, I thought childish and silly humour (bin eats Mickey) nothing actually happens. Likely to be OK at best, rubbish at worst. My opinion has been proved correct > for me < and that is sad really, but it is what it is. IMO the show will never be as good as the original because it is trying too hard to be current, it's relying on CGI and SFX too much and is trying to pander to the US and global audience. One of the strengths of the original series was the fact each story were multi-episode. The show built to cliffhangers and most importantly each story had time to tell a story properly because an average 4-parter had a running time of 85-90 minutes, The length of a film (althought they now are closer too 2 hours now) gives the story to develop properly. It gives time for decent characterisation. From the new series the only characters excluding The Doctor and his companions to get any real characterisation are the Silurian and he lady maid (?) and Sontaran butler and River Song.. Coincidence that they are the characters that have had the most screen time owing to appearing in numerous episodes so allowed to develop? The running time of 45-50 minutes approx. has damaged the show. They made it to fit in with the schedules. make it 45 minutes to fit in adverts abroad to get an 60 minute slot. Don't do multi-part stories because people don't always watch every episode and channel hop. I've done this challenge to so many people over the last few years and not one single person has managed to do it unless using very specific stories. Take any story from the original series excluding season 22 (Colin's first series that was in that format) and rewrite it or edit and chop it to fit the 45-50 minute slot and have an cohesive, exciting and character led single episode. The only time they've done it is when they've taken an 2-parter like The Rescue, The Awakening or The King's Demons which needed about 10 minutes removed. (after the recap it's closer to 8-9 minutes. take a 4-parter and they say nope can't do it even if that story isn't great and has obvious padding (The City of Death, Arc of Infinity and Planet of the Spiders) Is the show popular? Yes, does it have substance? No, was it surprising that based on one episode when not much happens and is mainly talking she thought this has no legs. It's not an adventure series, it's not exciting, it's not mysterious (unless you are under 10) She hasn't seen the original series so based on one single first episode said she didn't get it and it's easy to understand why.