More Diversity in Doctor Who

Well this is something that is not unexpected. With an equal ethnicity of main actor cast, Chibnall's most recent comments are not something of a surprise.

It is claimed by he and fellow executive producer, Matt Strevens that Doctor Who must be at the front of diversity because its about anyone being able to do anything.

Equality is something deeply important to society, but forced equality is never good. Deliberately employing a 50/50 director split on male and female results in perhaps an inequality in skill. All the editors bar one (would that be Will Osworld who is the one I wonder) are women. Nothing wrong with this but it appears that the question of skill is no longer required. I am not saying that women can not edit but this ratio, looking at shows altogether, do not seem to suggest that they were employed on skill. Guest writers are a split of 2 to 3, female to male guest writers. If they were all chosen because of their best ideas I would have no problem what so ever. However this is not the case. This is the first time that guest writers have actually been mentioned so it is interesting on who these writers could be.

Chris Chibnall is the only confirmed writer at the moment. With five guest writers confirmed we know that means that presumably (unless pair work has been done, which is rare to occur without one of the writers being the showrunner) at least five episodes are written by people who aren't Chris. Now as no episode is a two parter we also know that that means that if any of these writers write more than one episode they are also writing more than one story. Will it be a 50/50 split of Chris and guest, I don't know but that is a possibility.

Showrunner percentage of episodes written by them per series  (not counting Christmas Specials and dual writers are counted as a half):
Series 1 - 61.5% - RTD
Series 2 - 46.2% - RTD
Series 3 - 38.5% - RTD
Series 4 - 42.3% - RTD
Series 5 - 46.2% - Moff
Series 6 - 38.5% - Moff
Series 7 - 30.8% - Moff
Series 8 - 45.8% - Moff
Series 9 - 41.7% - Moff
Series 10 - 37.5% - Moff

50% of episodes is quite high so I reckon that Chibnall will write 4 of the 10 episodes. But who are the other writers? With Chibnall declaring a fresh start, it is likely that the vast majority, if not all, of these writers are new. All the directors bar one are new so this would make sense. Of the Series 10 writing team a load of declined any future involvement with the show. These include Sarah Dollard, Jamie Mathieson, Steven Moffat, Mark Gattiss and Toby Whithouse. These leaves only Frank Controll Boyce, Mike Barlett and Rona Munro who could return. If any of them are returning, Mike Barlett would be my best guess as he is a famous writer in his own right so they would want to keep him. It will be interesting to see who these writers are.