I like the idea of separate spin off clubs or different clubs for different ranges. A “TV Spin-off Club” would be a fairly simple way to add Torchwood, SJA, Class and the upcoming UNIT show. For Audio, I’d say keep the current Club for the Main Range and maybe have a secondary Audio Club for the other ranges since most of the other ranges do things in seasons/boxsets so you could do a season of Benny (plus appropriate novels since they’ve got audiobook releases now), a season of Companion Chronicles, a season of Gallifrey, a season of FDAs, etc. We could rename the current Comic Club to “Titan Comics Club” and have a “DWM Comics Club”. Novels we could add another range (alternating between PDAs and VMAs).
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All really good thoughts and as I expected from Doctor Who fans - absolutely no bloody consensus!
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I was… I was only joking you know… 
That is waaaaay more information about “Zygon porn” than I ever knew I didn’t need 
I must say I find it a bit disturbing that anyone would be surprised by a lack of Zygon pornography 
as if that was a totally ordinary thing… 
And I sincerely hope from the bottom of my heart that that was the last time I’ve ever typed out the words “Zygon pornography” shudders
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It looks like “do whatever” is winning, followed by a tie in the “do additional clubs” options. So this might be something the High Council needs to just sit down and make a decision on. I’m personally in favor of more clubs since there’s no time limit or mandatory participation.
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Sorry, I’ve been in fandom for so long I forget some people don’t actually want to know these sorts of things. I’ve also been extremely desensitised to all sorts of thing through varius projects, so I’m always surprised at a lack of pornography of any kind, really. Hell, I’ve written worse myself.
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Oh no need to apologise 
I guess I use smileys instead of those tone markers/ some use - I am a Millennial after all
Just imagine that my previous slightly sarcastic post had a /lh at the end 
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This is a difficult one for me to answer…
On the one hand, the more clubs the better imo. I want to talk about The Sarah Jane Adventures, I’ve been meaning to do another rewatch of Torchwood, I need to rewatch Class so that I can rate them all, and I must finally get into listening to Gallifrey!
On the other hand, I already can’t keep up with the clubs we have, and it’s a lot of admin on our side to manage them (I do Audio and Books, @deltaandthebannermen does TV, @Tian does Comics), so if we added more per month I’d probably get even more FOMO and we may get a bit burnt out managing them.
I’d probably vote for the various clubs to have little tangents - the TV club veering off into Torchwood and SJA as they naturally come up in order, and the Audio Club having a few weeks exploring other ranges. That way it’s the same number each month, but different experiences.
I just worry that @DarthGallifrey will have to redo his year-long schedules 
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It’s not terribly hard. As long as I have plenty of time in between when the changes start to adjust them. It shouldn’t be too hard. It’s a fairly easy plug-n-play method. As long as I what we’re doing when, I can plug everything in. If you know specifically where you want what, let me know and I’ll throw the new schedule together. So make your decisions and I’ll get you your schedule.
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I’ve started a blank schedule document where I’ll get all the dates correct. Once you’ve decided what/when you want to branch out into, I’ll fill out the schedule and add the update to the existing “year” threads and then I’ll continue posting month-by-month about a week before the 1st of each month.
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Okay, the calendar dates through the end are plugged into the updated document according to the current schedule (Book Club on the 1st and 15th, Audio Club every Friday, TV Club every Monday and Comic Club every other Wednesday). Now I just await the decision on where/what we’re branching out to. Then I’ll plug it all in and post it.
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For me, it is a question about “product purpose.”
I mean, everyone is able to just start a new topic, like, e.g., “The Sarah Jane Adventures appreciation thread”. That is more or less a TV Club thread minus the structure. Should I take up watching SJA again, I will just post there. Same with K9 - How?!?! Why?!?! .
So the question is, what is the USP of doing a Club?
I think it’s about gathering enough people who participate at the same time and have fun discussing stuff they watched/read at the same time with other people. People being able to add posts later on is fine and good, but the differentiator to any other thread about episodes, books, etc., is the concurrency. That’s why the clubs are fun, not the starting of threads that, over time, will be filled with content.
So my conclusion: We already have the “many as you like” option if we don’t care if there is more than one user at any given time who actually watched, read, etc., the stuff recently.
And so, I think more TV Clubs only make sense if there are enough people who want to participate. If not, it’s no problem to just post one’s thoughts in What Are You Currently Watching? or similar threads.
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The issue with “just start a thread like the K9, SJA, or Gallifrey thread” is that if I wanted to just talk about Gallifrey Episode 1, with guaranteed no spoilers for the rest of the season, a mega thread like that won’t necessarily work.
I can’t read the Gallifrey thread because I am so afraid of being spoiled lol.
So a structured club that talks about an episode at a time, that is an easier way to do it.
But you’re right that it doesn’t need to be a club, doesn’t need to have a weekly structure, etc.
I could start a topic about each episode of Class now, watch them at my own pace, and then jump into the topics when I want and I’m sure people will have filled it out from their memory or some will have rewatched it maybe.
So really it’s just the feeling of “we are all agreed to experience or repeat this story at an allotted time and then talk about it” that makes it a “club”.
I don’t know where I’m going with this and am no closer to deciding haha
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Building on that, one way to start new clubs could be to gather some people who intend to participate in the club (we all have lives, so no one can say such things for certain). That way, the probability of the club actually “living” for at least a little while would increase.
Conversely, there would probably be no big negative effect from just starting clubs all around and seeing what sticks. Well, except there could be a certain feeling of overwhelm, and people might participate less or be much more spread out across topics than before. That could lessen the overall experience for the forum.
But that’s all tea leaf reading, really.
Personally, I would prefer the approach of first gathering some people interested in a new club and then starting it (no matter how many other clubs already exist). But in the greater scheme of things, it probably does not matter which route we take on this.
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That is how I started the comic club.
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Definitely an interesting discussion here. Pardon my rambling here as I work out my thoughts + summerize some of the previous replies.
I’m not sure my thoughts on the issues that have been presented. On the one hand, not having a true time limit and having it so anyone can jump in whenever is nice and potentially removes presure and FOMO. On the other hand, I feel that just having multiple threads outside of the Clubs would potentially get less participation. Also, having the Club categories makes for an easy place to look and less scrolling through the parent category. But, there is the search function that I forget exists. Plus, my autism loves categories and lists.
Personally, I’m way behind on everything. Because I’m in the USA, the Book Club is probably the most difficult because of availablity (time too, but availability is the primary reason). In the TV Club I’ve kind of ignored Classic Who at the moment and dropped off after Series 1 with Modern, though now that I own Series 1-10, I might pick it back up soon. With the Comic Club, I made it through the first Eleventh Doctor Volume. However, while I got the Humble Bundle, reading comics on my laptop is not what I’m used to. The Audio Club is the one I enjoy the most, however, I listen to a lot of other audio and have thus fallen behind.
Am I right in thinking that the Book Club probably will be the club with no interest in adding additional side/alternate clubs and just focusing on the VNAs and NSAs for now?
The Comic Club is currently working through Titan’s output. Looking at @Tian’s schedule (see this post: We should have a comic book club - #9 by Tian), we’ll finish with Titan in April 2026 (unless we extend it to cover whatever’s out of the Fifteenth Doctor run). I can see two options here, start a second Comic Club for DWM or wait until 2026 and potentially go into the DWM comics then.
The TV Club is currently running weekly and alternating between Modern and Classic. The big thing here is whether we’d want either A. a second Club to cover the spin-offs (because it appears the a Club would provide the extra motivation that most people seem to need to actually watch the spin-offs), or B. incorporate the spin-offs into the current TV Club where they’d naturally fall in between seasons of Modern Who.
Finally, with the Audio Club, it seems that everyone wants to start doing other ranges, but the question is whether to start another club for other ranges or find a logical point in the Main Range to take a break and do other ranges. Personally, I think a second audio club would be best because at the current rate, the Audio Club will finish the Main Range in May 2029 and I don’t think we necessarily want to drag that out further by taking breaks for other ranges (I mean I could be wrong, I’m not a telepath). As far what other range a second audio club would start with, that’s an entire discussion on its own.
So in conclusion, I think another Audio Club is potentially the best option, the Book Club and Comic Club are probably best left as they are right now, and how we do spin-offs in the TV Club is entirely up to you guys, I have no preference there.
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To be perfectly honest, I would be interested in an EDAs book club, if only because I think that’s probably the only way I’ll get through any more of them, and I desperately want to read them all.
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So for Book Club, there’re five main novel ranges in Doctor Who: the Virgin New Adventures (VNA) which feature the Seventh Doctor, the Virgin Missing Adventures (VMA) which feature Doctors 1-6, the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (EDA) which feature the Eighth Doctor, the BBC Past Doctor Adventures (PDA) which feature Doctors 1-7, and the New Series Adventures (NSA) which feature Doctors 9-15.
We’re currently alternating between VNAs and NSAs. The rate of two books every month (with a full month between entries in each series) seems to be a good rate for everyone. The question for this club seems to be whether to add another series (mostly likely the EDAs) into the mix, and if we do, how often and when in the month that would fall.
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I would definitely join the EDA club, I’m not that far into them and some motivation for reeading would do me some good on the more boring ones I get stuck on.
As for a secondary audio club, I would be happy to run a secondary audio club - anything for an excuse to talk about Gallifrey!! 
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Honestly, this is not something I expected to read today 
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To be honest I don’t see a point of having an alternating focus here. The quality of the Titan stuff is much higher than everything from DWM I read.
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