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New Dr Who Actor Named
gdav writes "Well, after all that talk about Bill Nighy, it's actually going to be Christopher Ecclestone. He was prominent in Cracker, Our Friends in the North, and more recently 28 Days Later."
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The question here, is, is this going to be the 9th Doctor (as the BBC canon (which includes the made-for-tv movie) has McGann as the 8th, or are they planning on retcon?
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Eccleston. In the UK he's a well repected TV actor but he was in '28 Days Later' and 'Elizabeth' too. He's an interesting choice and over here at least he's certainly going to lend a bit of adult credibilty to the new version of the show.
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The only place that I have ever seen the name Dr. who has been on slashdot.
Are any of these posters from America?
When is the last time any of these shows aired?
Or, if they are any good, is there a Dr. who bittorrent site, since the BBC open-sourced their content.
I read that as "9th actor to play the Doctor" , not necessarily the 9th Doctor (aka 8th regeneration), only because, again, the question of the movie-as-canon is still in question, plus it certainly is possible to say the movie was canon, they could pull an actor change at this point without upsetting too much.
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
Based on the flash movies already on the BBC website I'd say they plan to use a great deal of specal effects BUT the writers will not be permitted to let the effects tell the story.
I won't speak for the quality of the writing. However every TV executive will tell you if you just toss a TV show on the air and tell nobody you will get no viewers. That is exactly what Fox pulled with the 1996 movie.
I don't actually exist.
Tom Baker also played the doctor for the longest period from 1974 to 1981. Most of the others did a stretch of about 3-4 years.
12. Gallifreyans get 12 regens by default. The master used up all his, did all sorts of mojo to stay alive on Gallifrey, stole Councillor Wossisname's body on Traken, and in the 5 docs was offered a full set of regens in exchange for help locating the Doctor.
The Valeyard from Trial of a Time Lord was supposedly the doc's 12th regen. The eeeeeevil one.
Oh my god. I'm a huge nerd.
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He actually said himself that while he would have accepted the role if it had been offered to him, he would prefer to see someone with more drive and desire to play it, as he had already been there and done that, so to speak. However, he has said that he would love to come back and film the regeneration sequence.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/drwho/2004/01/22
Peter Cushing starred in the movies "Dr. Who and the Daleks" and "Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD", which were based on the original TV stores "The Daleks"[1] and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". "Day of the Daleks" was a Jon Pertwee TV story.But those two 1960s movies don't fit in with the TV series at all, being remakes of TV stories, featuring a human Dr. Who (not The Doctor) in his space ship Tardis (not the TARDIS) and various other changes. You'd have to really twist the timeline to include them. I think the TV series will follow on after Paul McGann, as there are a large number of spin off books and audio plays set after the TV movie, and fans don't generally take kindly to having huge parts of a series wiped out usually. Although I somehow thing the amount of McGann stuff will be reduced (BBC Books are apparently going to phase out on the ongoing 8th Doctor series of books, although I think occasional books are going to be produced in the 'past doctor' line.) I do hope they ignore any of the really stupid bits in the TV Movie though (the half-human bit is the most obvious, that's ripped strait out of Star Trek (Spock et. all).) But I think the current production them is knowledgeable enough to know that getting too hung up on continuity etc. is a bad idea, just look what happened in the early-mid 80's, with loads of really pointless references abound. [1] This is sometimes know as "The Mutants", but that isn't used much as a Jon Pertwee serial also has that title.
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I read that as "9th actor to play the Doctor" , not necessarily the 9th Doctor (aka 8th regeneration), only because, again, the question of the movie-as-canon is still in question, plus it certainly is possible to say the movie was canon, they could pull an actor change at this point without upsetting too much.
I believe the BBC considers the movie canon, as they themselves publish a line of Eighth Doctor books, not to mention had Paul McGann play the Doctor in a new version of Shada. Shada is currently published by Big Finish, who have the license for Doctor Who audio adventures and themselves have a line of Eighth Doctor stories starring McGann. I think it's not like Star Wars or Star Trek where even the sanctioned books and audios are considered canon.
Hope this helps...
There were two.
The Shadow in the Glass with the Sixth Doctor.
Timewyrm: Exodus with the Seventh Doctor.
Hope this helps...
No way! Head is a wooden ham who gets by in
the U.S. because of his accent.
Before joining Buffy he was best known in the
UK for his role in a long running coffee
commercial love story ("The Gold Blend couple").
Simply NOT Time Lord material, but he might
serve as an Ice Warrior with a bit of make-up.
Before anyone else does that joke, please get thee to a vid store and rent (or buy, it's worth it) "Elizabeth" and note his performance as the papal assassin (although in the end, Geoffrey Rush's Walsingham is the more ruthless and effective).
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Not surprising, then, as Russell T. Davies, the producer spearheading the new series, has gone on record saying he wanted to focus on the horror aspect of the series.
To many people (and especially Americans) Doctor Who is thought of as a lighthearted series. But, really, throughout most of its run, it was not. The show was frequently chided by British "family advocates" for being too scary for the children's audience it was supposedly targetted at, and dabbled in all sorts of macabre ideas. It was only during the reign of producer Graham Williams in the late 1970s (the period in which Douglas Adams served as script editor) that the show gained its reputation for pure camp: Philip Hinchcliffe, the producer preceding Williams, was especially noted for his penchant for gothic horror, and John Nathan-Turner, who followed from Williams' tenure until the cancellation of the show in 1989, tended towards, at various different points, either action/suspense or psychological horror himself. Heck, even Williams/Adams, beneath the somewhat camp exterior, delved into some dark concepts.
The Doctor, as a character, usually has an eccentric edge, but he's not always (or even predominately) a humorous character: even Tom Baker's performance, particularly towards the beginning and end of his seven year run with the role, had its sharper, and darker, edges.
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It is intended to be a regular TV show again. This is the new show: he BBC has previously said that they expect a minimum of five years from the show (Remember, "series" and "season" are basically interchangeable terms when it comes to British TV). Thirteen episodes is actually a more than reasonable number of episodes for a season, given British television, and, at 45 minutes to an hour each, means that the new season will run longer than the last four seasons of the original show (which were 14 episodes at 25 minutes each).
Sean Daugherty "I have walked in Eternity -- and Eternity weeps."