Should Class have been cancelled?
Yes. Oh wait, sorry, did you want more? Fair enough... For those who don't know, Class was a BBC Three original series written and created by Patrick Ness, as a young adult-targeted spin-off from Doctor Who. Set in Coal Hill School, the series saw four teenage leads and their evil alien teacher Miss Quill assigned by a certain Doctor to protect the area from cracks in space and time, from which anything could spring from. Insert monster-of-the-week formulas, teen drama and a rather clunky over-arching narrative here. Now, that really doesn't sound like a bad idea for a series, or even a Doctor Who spin-off. Contemporary Who has definitely had a Buffy the Vampire Slayer influence, as did The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Torchwood definitely took inspiration from Angel. A teen-oriented show would be fine...if this was about ten years ago, when TV was actually trying to engage this kind of audience. Nowadays teenagers have plenty of specially-targeted shows on Netflix, and stic...
