How’s this for weird? The Chinese General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television has officially put a ban on any stories that feature time travel. The government agency basically thinks that it’s disrespectful to history. Like history can’t take care of itself and needs China to fight its battles.

Here is there official statement:

The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films. But its content and the exaggerated performance style are questionable. Many stories are totally made-up and are made to strain for an effect of novelty. The producers and writers are treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore.

The speculation is that the reason behind the ban is due to the rise in popularity of time-travel romances in Chinese programming. If that little bit wasn’t enough to make you sad (at least for the Chinese people) the agency has also decided that no more adaptations of China’s Four Great Classical Novels, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber, can be produced due to claims of fatigue of the source material.

A nation without The Doctor? My soul weeps.

[Source: Tor]