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David Tennant Cast as New Doctor Who
Stephen Williams writes "Doctor Who fan site Output Gallifrey is reporting that David Tennant has been cast as the tenth incarnation of the Time Lord. Tennant, who has recently appeared in BBC dramas Blackpool and Casanova, has been linked with the role of the Doctor since the announcement of Christopher Eccleston's departure."
I am now older than the guy playing Dr Who :-(
In one of the papers, they are saying he landed a £500,000 salary deal.
If he was the real doctor, he could setup a bank account with bit of money in, and come back in a couple of million years to collect his interest.
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Wonderful.. we go from a nutter with big ears to a guy best known for acting as a womaniser.. what snext? The cross dressing doctor?
I like muppets.
I think I won't like him as much as the last - I don't think Dr Who will suit the new one.
I always wondered if people like this get bored playing TV characters. Then again, over the span of a series, I guess you can develop a character and his emotions.
Or, he just wants to buy a house in the Caribbean.
Oh well, if a fan site say it they're the authority... never mind checking the BBC!
Eccleston, whose first appearance as the ninth Doctor attracted 10 million viewers, said he feared being typecast.
:)
Can one really be typecast as the sole surviving Time Lord? Did he think his next gig would be in a sitcom of a similar premise?
Sometimes i wonder if the tabloid drama generated by changing actors makes for more publicity than the quality of the show itself.
Of all the modern incarnations of the Doctor, the best actor in the role was Paul McGann. He looked the part and is a very good actor.
Now we get somebody who just doesn't fit the role. Kind of like what happened to the Batman movies. Most of the actors sucked at being Batman.
Of all the modern incarnations of the Doctor, the best actor in the role was Paul McGann. He looked the part and is a very good actor. Now we get somebody who just doesn't fit the role.
Paul McGann was passable, but was really just a slightly bland generic amalgalm of previous Doctors (read the second half of this post) and someone's idea of what the Doctor "should" be like.
IMHO, to be successful and avoid comparisons with previous Doctors, an actor *has* to bring something new. The Batman comparison is flawed, because Batman was meant to be the same character in each, whereas each Doctor has a distinctly different personality- or at least they should.
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He'd make a good time lord.
I've watched the first 3 episodes and i had only seen a couple of Dr Who's before that, but the old ones seemed more entertaining, tonights show will make or break it for me, I wonder if the ratings will still be high?
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At least he looks a bit more interesting than the current one:
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This guy's already got 2 roles he'll be remembered for. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855039/ Being in a Harry Potter film AND the Doctor must make you some kind of geek über actor. Only Patrick 'Picard and Xavier' Stewart and Sir Ian 'Gandalf and Magneto' McKellen can compete.
At last a good choice! Tennant is the just the sort of 'light' actor that can be driven by the role and not look like a big fish in a little pond (as Eccleston did). ;) and made the show something really special (and funny too!) but in an interview on fanboy Johnathan Ross's show recently Eddie was very reluctant when pressed about the role. Evans is effectively banned from the BBC I guess, and would have taken the show in a far more alcoholic/Chelsean kind of direction until the day he decided to have every other millenium off...
Nonetheless, I would have preferred Chris Evans (talented-yet-flawed DJ/TV presenter/Billy-ex) because he has obvious character; or Eddie Izzard (surreal comedian) who could have written his own lines and used his own clothes
... and seen them all on TV from 1963ish onwards from behind the sofa, I don't care as LONG AS SWEET LITTLE BILLIE PIPER stays.
She is real cute, and the best Dr Who assistant ever.
From keeping a young boy 'shit scared behind the sofa' to keeping an older man watching, Whoo Whoooooo Whooo Whoooo (hum that last part) cares. Keep Billie!
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It's a strange little film about a Scottish undertaker/wannabe screenwriter (Tennant) who falls in love with an American tourist and travels to L.A. to find her.
Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo are all excellent, and there are a few very funny cameos by Johhny Depp. He appears in most of the film as his own poster for Dead Man, who Tennant talks to for inspiration (difficult to explain, something like this:- http://www.posterplanet.net/images/deadmangun.jpg)
Tennant is, in my opinion a good actor and while I'm not a huge fan of Doctor Who, I'm glad for his success. Maybe it will make this film easier to find?
... she is chavtastic...
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
he doesn't look like an all knowing all powerful time lord thats for sure, lets hope no baddies jump out at him and say "boo"
Just think about how much older you are than all the doctor's female assistants. You could almost put a "Barely Legal Teens!" caption to most of them.
Hopefully, we'll get more than one season with Tennant's Doctor, since we're now on number ten - leaving us with what, three more before he's out of Regenerations? IF the actor's keep leaving, we'll be done with Doctor Who by 2010.
Dr. Who: Lets go to my tardis, Rose.
Dalek: Fornicate!! Fornicate!!
BBC is holding out for cash before distribution in the US. I'll reserve judgement on this new series until I see it.
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...David Tennant said, "I quit."
What does he slip into at times, Cockney?
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How many nerds really care about this topic? It's so early 80s and obscure. Might as well support 'Space 1999' posts. . .
Dalek: YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED! ... um, well, er, this is all very, er, ... gosh [and so on].
Dr: Well, I, um, gosh, I mean, that is to say, I
What about the 10 regeneration limitation?
I know, I know, its TV, they will think of something.
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I hope you weirdo/virgins realize that the only people that watch this show are the anime fans that play dungeons and dragons and magic the gathering. everyone thinks you're weird guys.
Maybe Tennant will be a good Doctor - he's certainly got to be better than Eccleston, who I find frankly dire - but I really don't understand this obsession TV has with youth.
Why does the Doctor have to keep getting younger and younger? To me he should be an eccentric older man, with enough years to give gravitas to some of the absurd lines he'll surely have to say!
We're told that it is so "youth" can relate to him - but that's surely nonsense. As a kid I grew up with Tom Baker, and didn't relate to him any less because he was is his forties. Bah!
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at least it beats the hell out of tom arnold with barbara streisand!
I think the Doctor has already exceeded his original number of regenerations.
b rainmorbius/ . In the Time Lord Mind Game the Doctor and Morbius battle and Morbius asks the Doctor how long he has lived. We see the faces of the incarnations of the Doctor we know and then other faces we don't know, totaling 12. This implies that Tom Baker's Doctor is the 12th regeneration.
l ogopolis/. I think the Watcher reset the clock on the Doctor's regenerations. Either from the point when the Doctor left Gallifrey or to one.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/
Then see http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/
Between that and the neighborhood kids who refuse to get off my lawn, I am going to have to get a new house coat that I can wear outside to chase them off.
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Umm, shouldn't that read Outpost Gallifrey? 'Tis my favorite Who site...
David Tennant already had part on the Dr. Who mini series "Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka" as the Caretaker.
Bet this
Now that they have found a new DR. Who does this mean that the series will continue onwards and upwards. God I hope so
David Tennant turns 34 on Monday. When they each began playing the Doctor: Chris Eccleston was 40, Paul McGann was 37, Sylvester McCoy was 44, Colin Baker was 41, Peter Davison was 30, Tom Baker was 40, Jon Pertwee was 51, Patrick Troughton was 46, and William Hartnell was 55.
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All I can say is that I was delighted when I'd heard that Eddy Izzard was being considered for the role. Of course, that may have been untrue, but it would have been brilliant!
Bill Nighy!
Bill Nighy!
Bill Nighy!
Bloody hell!
Yeah, but come on. We got a savage chick in torn clothing who liked to go around stabbing people for fun. What more does one need in life?
... and then they built the supercollider.
... it would have been shite, and I speak as a very-long-standing Eddie fan. For my evidence, I offer up every single film role he has taken on, all, unanimously, crap. The man can't act. He's a hysterically funny standup but he. can't. act. Oh, forgive me, he was excellent in Lenny (the stage-play based on the life of Lenny Bruce) which I saw, and in which he played a ... stand-up comedian.
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I started watching dr who with Tom Baker. Is the doctor not getting close to the end his ability to reincarnate? If so, I wonder how they will get around this fact.
Just think about how much older you are than all the doctor's female assistants. You could almost put a "Barely Legal Teens!" caption to most of them.
What's ironic is that Billie Piper first rose to fame as a pop star at age 15 with the song "Because We Want To" (which could have been a minor classic if they'd done it with more attitude and less anodyne production).
She wasn't even in the "barely legal" category; anyway, there was a predictable rash of "now she's legal" comments from various (male) sources when she hit 16 (the age of consent in the UK).
And I'll bet Chris Evans was amongst them... ugh.
Maybe Tennant will be a good Doctor - he's certainly got to be better than Eccleston, who I find frankly dire - but I really don't understand this obsession TV has with youth [..] We're told that it is so "youth" can relate to him - but that's surely nonsense. As a kid I grew up with Tom Baker, and didn't relate to him any less because he was is his forties.
If you compare their ages when they first appeared onscreen, Eccleston is actually a couple of months older than Tom Baker was when he started.
Assuming the new series took longer to film than the old one, I'd say it all comes out in the wash...
Wow. The Doctors are changing almost as fast as the post Breshnev Soviet leaders did.
He also has almost no baggage in terms of expectation.
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It would finally be time in 2005 to make the Doctor Who a woman and the companion a male. I mean this is the 21st century and there seems to be nothing in the setup that requires the Doctor to be a male.
Did we ever get a good explanation of why Eccleston didn't want to do more than one season as Who?
My guess is that we'll be 3 or 4 Doctor's behind by the time I can finally legitimately see the show in the U.S.
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I don't really like Ecclestone's Dr. Who, but having see David Tennant in Cassanova, I think he'll be excellent. He is very bright and witty but his training shows through, and I think that he will bring some gravitas to the role.
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I believe that official line is that the ones we see in that episode (there are three of them actualy, making Baker the seventh doctor, and Tennant the last) are actualy Moerbius' previous regenerations. (yes obviously the writers of that episode intended them to be the Doctor, but as Retcon goes it's not bad)
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Ade would have been perfect as the new Doctor, (-DM's and forehead studs) never mind maybe next time