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."

Comments

Depressing

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

I am now older than the guy playing Dr Who :-(

Re:Typecast?!??!?!?

[BarryNorton]

Eccleston [...] said he feared being typecast.

The BBC already had to back down over that 'quote' - they'd agreed not to make his departure public, then made something up when asked!

(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!)

McGann's Doctor-by-committee was *wrong* idea

[Dogtanian]

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.

Star of a not-very-well-known gem

[joppabukowski]

This one seemed to totally slip by the mainstream. It's called L.A. Without a Map (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119565/).

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?

Casanova star to play new Doctor Who

[JohnCC]

Dr. Who: Lets go to my tardis, Rose.
Dalek: Fornicate!! Fornicate!!

Dr Hugh

[BabyDave]

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!

Dalek: YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!
Dr: Well, I, um, gosh, I mean, that is to say, I ... um, well, er, this is all very, er, ... gosh [and so on].

Just for reference:

[Rob T Firefly]

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.