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Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-not-so-great dept.

bowman9991 sent in a disappointing rumor saying "Ironically Matt Smith, the youngest Doctor Who ever, apparently wants to retire early. An unconfirmed report suggests Smith would like to try his hand at Hollywood films after the end of his second season as the Doctor. Smith is currently filming this year's Doctor Who Christmas special with Karen Gillan, who plays his companion Amy Pond, and opera star Katherine Jenkins. After the Christmas special he goes straight into production on a new Doctor Who series set to air next year." I've tremendously enjoyed the Smith/Gillan combo, personally.

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  1. Re:The Sun eh... by Two9A · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Telegraph reports Karen Gillan as specifically denying that Smith's going anywhere, so this is just a spurious attempt by the Sun to generate "news".

    Here's hoping Smith stays on for at least 3 years, and we get some more multi-season arcs going.

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  2. Karen Gillan says Matt is staying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doctor Who star Matt Smith is staying put, says Karen Gillan
    Karen Gillan, who plays Doctor Who's assistant, says Matt Smith isn't going to Los Angeles
    Karen Gillan, who plays Amy Pond, the assistant to Matt Smith's Doctor Who, has reassuring news for his fans. The actor isn't about to decamp to Los Angeles.

    "Matt will be sticking around," she told me at the Veuve Clicquot Gold Cup Final at Cowdray Park Polo Club yesterday. "I think those rumours were made up."

    Karen, left, added that she and Smith have started filming the Doctor Who Christmas special, and adds that the atmosphere on the set is "great."

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/7897262/Doctor-Who-star-Matt-Smith-is-staying-put-says-Karen-Gillan.html

  3. Re:Time to add a little crazy into that character by TheWanderingHermit · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesn't matter anyway. Slashdot was in such a hurry to get a headline people would react to, they didn't do their fact checking. He's not leaving:

    http://www.digitalspy.com/cult/s7/doctor-who/news/a246624/gillan-matt-smith-isnt-leaving-who.html

  4. Re:Christmas special? by nine-times · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doctor who always has Christmas specials... or at least for the past several years. You just might not have realized it if you're in the US, because they tend to get played as season premieres. If you remember...

    • "The Christmas Invasion" - First David Tennant episode, aliens invade on Christmas
    • "The Runaway Bride" - Introduction to Donna Noble
    • "Voyage of the Damned" - Spaceship Titanic, Kylie Minogue appears
    • "The Next Doctor" - The Doctor runs into what appears to be a future version of himself, fights the Cybermen in the past
    • "The End of Time" - Last David Tennant episode

    All of these were Christmas specials. Many of them explicitly took place on Christmas, though I don't remember if they all do.