Slashdot Mirror
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.
liqbase
A female doctor?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
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!
(I know, I submitted a well-referenced story on this to Slashdot only to have it rejected and see one without the references posted days later!)
what snext? The cross dressing doctor?
Tim Curry, dressed as he was in the Rocky Horror Picture Show (and I'd already posted that idea in response to a previous story).
Actually, he'd probably be a bit old for that now.
In all seriousness, I don't think Eddie Izzard would've been a good choice; too much baggage (not just handbaggage, arf), and I reckon he'd be playing "Eddie Izzard" all the time.
I thought Christopher Ecclestone was a good choice, because he *wasn't* an obvious choice. The obvious choice, to go with a 'famous', 'eccentric', 'British', blah blah Doctor, really struck me as a bad idea, based on people with half-baked recollections of Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee trying to come up with ideas. I've nothing against Richard E Grant, but he was too much along that line (yeah, I know he did an online story or something). Apparently they also asked Hugh Grant (no relation AFAIK) to do it at one stage, but he turned it down. THANK GOD! Hugh-'king-Grant, fer chrissakes!
I don't want well-known, and I don't want formulaicly eccentric. I want someone who can bring something new to the role without losing sight of who The Doctor is.
Ecclestone seemed to be that guy, and then he buggered off. Damn.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
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.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
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?
This comment does not represent the views or opinions of the user.
... 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!
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.
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!!
...David Tennant said, "I quit."
I think that the crucial characteristic of the doctor is authority. He can be serious, funny, dour, cheerful, young, old, fat, thin, whatever, but you need the feeling that he knows what's going on, that he can put things right. But for that he needs authority, leadership, strength of character, intensity.
I think in general it'd be harder for a woman to pull that off, but I'm sure there are some actresses who could. (Probably a slightly older one; authority tends to go with age in women just as in men.) Helen Mirren, for example, springs to mind as someone who might be good. Even someone like Jennifer Saunders might be interesting in the role.
Mind you, my first choice would have to be Alan Rickman...
Ceterum censeo subscriptionem esse delendam.
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
It's a 12 regeneration limit, not 10.
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!
Pierce Brosnan
rewriting history since 2109
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/
I have never once played Magic the Gathering
David Tennant already had part on the Dr. Who mini series "Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka" as the Caretaker.
Bet this
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.
Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
If the Doctor has two hearts, how many extras might he have as a woman? The concept alternatively scares me and excites me. And he might find new uses for the sonic screwdriver.