Lessons Not Learned - The Video Nasties

Been quite a while since I've done one of these, but it's time to take a look back at another case of when things went tits up in the film industry, and what lessons were utterly failed to be learned from it.  Now usually with these I look at what Hollywood and such didn't take to heart from the mess, but this time, the lessons in question weren't learned by society in general, and indeed it's just one case of a very familiar song and dance, one that we're seeing quite a few versions of play out at the moment, just with different singers and dancers.  So we're heading back to the eighties, but not the neon lit cool tourist version of nostalgia, but the bleak and horrible reality; Stranger Things, this is not.  MUSIC!

It's the End... but the Moment has been prepared for.

So, not the best of Doctor Who news, huh?

Now before I start, the absence of a horrible, almost certainly AI generated, cover or thumbnail should tell you that no, this isn't going to be one of those articles playing armchair TV executive trying to analyse the reasons why this decision was made, and it's DEFINITELY not going to say it's because of "woke".  (Erg!  What's really galling about all of those is the fact it's clear that the makers have no idea what woke is meant to mean, it's just a noise of disapproval for them!)  Also, even though these are the thoughts of someone who went through what I guess we now have to call "The Original Wilderness Years", this isn't going to be me dictating how you should feel about the whole thing, no "MAN UP"s here.  It's a shock to many of us, a time of confusion, of scary uncertainty, I get that entirely, it's something to take in.  What this is going to be is just my tuppence worth, what lessons we could learn from the last time the series entered a hiatus, and where to find hope for the future.  Let's dig in, shall we...

How many seconds are there in the Wilderness Years?