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David Tennant quits as Doctor Who.
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Another David
Isn't David Morrissey lined up to play "the next Dr" when the Dr meets himself in one of the forthcoming specials? If that is the case he must be an early favourite to take the role on, surely?
Just saw that.....
and if it goes to James Nesbitt I'll prank call him for life!!! Maybe Russell Brand will get it!!
Please God not James
Please God not James Nesbitt... It's not going to be David Morrissey - he's apparently playing a conman in the Xmas special who's passing himself off as the Doctor.
David Tennant's going to be a very tough act to follow. I have two boys who are fanatical about Dr Who, and while they know about the regeneration stuff (they've seen the Ecclestone DVDs), Tennant IS the Doctor. Anyone following him is going to have to appeal to the core audience of small boys with a box full of Dr Who figures - that's not really going to work with a middle-aged Ulsterman who's traded over-much on a twinkly smile.
My vote is for another Irishman, Aidan "Tommy Carcetti" Gillen. Young enough and with a little bit more danger than Tennant. I think he could pull it off.
small boys?
If Mrs E and her friends are anything to go by, David T's core audience contains a significant number of (ahem!) "younger middle aged" women too...!
Why does the Doctor have to be young?
FWIW I'd prefer someone with a bit of gravitas. But then what do I know, I can't stand the RTD resurrection of Dr Who. All style, little substance, the reverse of the ramshackle old series.
If you like Doctor Who
you will love this site
http://whomix.trilete.net/?wmid=music
So many revamped versions of the theme tune.
I can recommend the Whorythmics - a mashup with Sweet Dreams and Blitzkrieg Bop (Tom Baker Mix). So many to play with...
Bring back Tom Baker !
Alternatively Iggy Pop can be a regeneration of the Patrick Troughton Doctor.
Or we could..
have Bowie as a rather camp Doctor! Any other musicians? Sting as a very smug Doc?!
Forget David Morrissey
and just have Morrissey as the new Doctor. He's certainly got the not-quite-like-normal-people aspect sorted.
It's a pity John Simm already turned up as The Master, he'd be a brilliant Doctor.
Bowie!
This is a great idea. He'd be perfect, camp and other-worldly.
Tennant and Tate...
..were the best Who team ever.
Let's face it, most of the early "classic" Whos are laughably inept..whole planets made from cardboard and Fairy liquid containers.
Classic Who
I recently rented a couple of old Tom Baker Whos, at the risk of tarnishing treasured childhood memories. They stood up rather well. The sets were flimsy but the plots and dialogue had all the tension and depth that a ten year could have handled. They had proper plots too, unlike the RTD Whos in which the standard ending is 'they pushed a button the Doctor had just noticed and it made everything all right.'
BTW, Tate's horrible in everything she does. Just is I'm afraid, and there's nothing science can do about it. At then end of the last series of who Donna had every memory of her role in the series erased, but it's a pity the same couldn't be done for the viewers. I'll sign off before I sound like even more of a Who geek than I am.
Anyway - Rufus Sewell for Who anyone?
And the winner of the...
BBC Find The Next Doctor Who reality TV Saturday night show is
Tom Ward!
how about...
... Russell Brand?
(sorry, just saw that Humphreym made this same joke way before me).
Doh!
Job description:
Must be able to run.
Have on-screen chemistry with (inevitable) female companion
Be prepared to kiss John Barrowman
That's it
Sounds like a job for
David Walliams. Though I'm not sure about the first two.
Paging Jim Dale
Yes him from the Carry On films, he'd perfect for test driving the Tardis
http://www.jim-dale.com/
Mark Ellen
Yes.
Beaten to the punchline
I was about to suggest the very same man. Ellen is tall, both old and young at the same time, good at covering distances at speed, and when all else fails he could anecdote the Daleks into oblivion.
And
Peter Mandelson as The Master?
This has David Walliams written all over it
That would be where I would put my money. Although if it came to a vote James Cordon from Gavin and Stacey would get mine.
A steven maybe
If "Fry" wont do it how about "Merchant" ?
Could it be
In a shocking twist, a WOMAN?
How about Russell Brand?
Oh dear, trust me.
I'm being negative again but I thought Tennant wasn't very good at all. I was constantly distracted by his pop-eyed unblinking spit-flecked vocal delivery. It was either that or his overly arch, casual sardonic attitude when not engaged in actually saving the universe. He over-acted like nothing on earth, in short.
Yes, I know. It's not real, it's for kids and it's meant to be fantastic by every meaning of the word but when I did sit through an episode by the end I was praying for the baddy to dead leg or wind him or something. Anything to get a proper reaction out of him and get him to blink.
My vote goes to Eddie Izzard. An eccentric performer who would fit in very well I think.
I second that emotion
...Izzard would be wizzard as the good doctor