Doctor Who 2008

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 13:02

I want to see Ant & Dec play the Doctor as siamese twins.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

Peter Davidson. I reckon he could play the Doctor. Not too busy these days either.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

Hmm Peter Davison..an interesting choice, what makes you think he could be a 'Doctor', I mean isn't he a bit old by now? Has he had much involvement with Sci Fi in the past?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 13:10

Patrick Moore.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

No I meant an ANIMAL DOCTOR in All Creatures Great and Small. What is this Shy Fy of which you speak?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Stephen Fry.

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 13:22

markg wrote:

Carcetti from The Wire was another one I heard mentioned.

How about Sheffield's own Dominic West? I look forward to the scene where an increasing drunken and frustrated Doctor fails to assemble a load of Ikea furniture with his sonic screwdriver.

CraigGrannell · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1639

Grim... wrote:

Mind you, the transformation is becoming so regular that he's soon going to start saying "Oh boy".

It'll be like Curse of the Fatal Death.

RBR2 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 14:37

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 14:39

Rodafowa wrote:

markg wrote:

Carcetti from The Wire was another one I heard mentioned.

How about Sheffield's own Dominic West? I look forward to the scene where an increasing drunken and frustrated Doctor fails to assemble a load of Ikea furniture with his sonic screwdriver.

I couldn't believe that Carcetti was the lead gay bloke from Queer as Folk. Talk about a bit of a different role!

Dominic West would be a little too gritty, perhaps? then again, he used to be in The Catherine Tate Show, so he'd have the right contacts if nothing else.

What about Idris 'Stringer Bell' Elba?

:DD

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Clay Davis FTW, "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeet" would be an ace Dr. Who catchphrase.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 14:45

markg wrote:

Clay Davis FTW, "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeet" would be an ace Dr. Who catchphrase.

Apparently he does that catchphrase no matter what character he's playing. Which is good, as it's the best thing ever.

"Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, Mickey!"

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Mandatory:

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

CraigGrannell wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Mind you, the transformation is becoming so regular that he's soon going to start saying "Oh boy".

It'll be like Curse of the Fatal Death.

'cording to wikipedia:
1. First Doctor - William Hartnell: (23 November 1963 – 29 October 1966),
2. Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton: (29 October 1966 – 21 June 1969)
3. Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee: (3 January 1970 – 8 June 1974)
4. Fourth Doctor - Tom Baker: (8 June 1974 – 21 March 1981)
5. Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison: (21 March 1981 – 16 March 1984)
6. Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker: (16 March 1984 – 6 December 1986)
7. Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy: (7 September 1987 – 6 December 1989 in the series, and 27 May 1996 in the Doctor Who film)
8. Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann: (27 May 1996, in the Doctor Who film) and in the BBC Radio 7 Doctor Who series.[10]
9. Ninth Doctor - Christopher Eccleston: (26 March 2005 – 18 June 2005)
10. Tenth Doctor - David Tennant: (18 June 2005 – 2010[11][12])

So he's been doing it longer than most. Except the lazy 8 and 9.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38464

averages about 3 and a bit years don't it?

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Curiosity wrote:

I think there'd be uproar if it were a woman, Lave!

Aye there would. And rightly so to a degree.

I actually think Dr Who is really important, as I said before, because he's a continuation of the English Gentleman Hero. Which I think is an incredibly important figure. Pro-Science, Secular (the Dr being pretty much an all out atheist), bears no heed to fanciful explanations, Rational, Non Violent, Humanist. Stiff upper lip and all that.*

I think it's wonderful that is the traditional British Hero: The civilized force walking into chaos without a weapon, but bloody well going to sort it all out. I mean compare that to the traditional american hero, cowboys and john mcclains who shoot there way through any problem.

It's wonderful. So whilst a woman can play that role, it would have to be the right woman who really understood the shoes she's filling. And franckly there aren't enough good role models for boys that aren't american super hero style people, so I would much rather the Doctor stay a man.

* My ideal man!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

CraigGrannell wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Mind you, the transformation is becoming so regular that he's soon going to start saying "Oh boy".

It'll be like Curse of the Fatal Death.

Moffat wrote that. CHINNYTRUFAX!

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 17:25

Lave wrote:

And franckly there aren't enough good role models for boys that aren't american super hero style people, so I would much rather the Doctor stay a man.

Because there are plenty for girls?

I totally agree with the main bulk of your point, but that just seems a bit of an odd statement.

CraigGrannell wrote:

Joseph's acting ability is such that this would be no problem at all to him.

This. It reminds me of the people who rushed to condemn Daniel Craig being cast as Bond because he was "too blond".

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Rodafowa wrote:

Lave wrote:

And franckly there aren't enough good role models for boys that aren't american super hero style people, so I would much rather the Doctor stay a man.

Because there are plenty for girls?

I totally agree with the main bulk of your point, but that just seems a bit of an odd statement.

Not at all. It's just that there are so many violent role models aimed at boys, that a pacifist role model has more need as a counter weight to them. That and girls have already got the really rather awesome Sarah Jane anyhow.

That and the Dr is a role model for both sexes anyway. I just think for all the batmans and supermans and Ben 10s and so on it's nice to have a non-violent male character. Which is very rare.

My GF is a primary school teacher and she talks about how the boys go through phases of playing as the Doctor and then Spiderman. I'm glad the Dr is there for the counter balance.

My only issue is that because it leads to lots of female companions - which could create the impression that women are only ever 2nd in command or something. But again the SJA have worked against that a lot.

Of course on the flip side, having a female Doc shows that sex doesn't matter - so that could work too.

CraigGrannell wrote:

Joseph's acting ability is such that this would be no problem at all to him.

This. It reminds me of the people who rushed to condemn Daniel Craig being cast as Bond because he was "too blond".[/quote]

:this:

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

When they merely should have condemned it on the grounds of the incredibly poor films he was then in.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 18:53

Dudley wrote:

When they merely should have condemned it on the grounds of the incredibly poor films he was then in.

Layer Cake was ace, you buffoon.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 18:54

What Grim... said.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Grim... wrote:

Dudley wrote:

When they merely should have condemned it on the grounds of the incredibly poor films he was then in.

Layer Cake was ace, you buffoon.

I meant his Bond films.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 19:22

A little bird told me that Danny Dyer is being heavily tipped for the role, as he wants "to expand his reportoir"

RBR2 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 19:31

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Just thought, little bit too old now. But Helen Mirran would be a fantastic Doctor.

AceAceBaby · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 20:44

Maybe the Master would be regenerated as The Mistress, and they can get that Georgina Baillie in.

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 20:53

Dudley wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Dudley wrote:

When they merely should have condemned it on the grounds of the incredibly poor films he was then in.

Layer Cake was ace, you buffoon.

I meant his Bond films.

Casino Royale was ace, you buffoon.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 20:54

He meant Quantum of Solace.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

No, I meant both.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 21:18

You buffoon.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 21:45

Casino Royale was a good film, it just wasn't really a Bond film.

Sheepeh · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2320

Grim... wrote:

Casino Royale was a good film, it just wasn't really a Bond film.

Way more of a Bond film than Solace. I quite liked Casino, but Solace left me wondering what I'd missed.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Grim... wrote:

Casino Royale was a good film, it just wasn't really a Bond film.

Exactly.

myp · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 22:24

Dudley wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Casino Royale was a good film, it just wasn't really a Bond film.

Exactly.

So it wasn't "incredibly poor", then?

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

It was because it failed on the one thing it was supposed to deliver.

Back to the Future certainly wasn't a bad film, but if it was advertised as a survival horror I'd be pissed off.

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 23:25

myoptika wrote:

You buffoon.

Told you.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Grim... wrote:

Casino Royale was a good film, it just wasn't really a Bond film.

Isn't that because the whole premise of the film is the story of how Bond becomes who he is in all the others? The emotionally hardened superspy?

Note - I'm pretending that OHMSS doesn't exist.

Ian Osborne · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 424

AceAceBaby wrote:

Maybe the Master would be regenerated as The Mistress, and they can get that Georgina Baillie in.

Now you're talking!

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Doctor who revealed by accident!?!
Youtube slip up here:

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Who is of course

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chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Lave wrote:

Doctor who revealed by accident!?!

Since the man who leers at me through the window of the bookies has got the Countdown gig, my money is now on Fred D.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:29

What about the one off Children in need...

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SCI-FI fans are this week frantically trying to guess who will be David Tennant’s successor as Dr Who after Children in Need fuelled rumours David Morrissey would take the job.

The latest bout of internet gossip began after a sneak preview of the hit show’s Christmas special was shown as part of the charity extravaganza on Friday night.

During that programme, Liverpool actor Morrissey was shown playing another doctor, fuelling rumours he will step into the role on the BBC Wales series.

One fan, writing as crazzyaz7 on the Digital Spy site, said: “I was more than happy with him to be [the Doctor] before that clip, and even more so now.

“He came across perfect ‘Doctorish’, if there is such a thing, considering every Doctor is very different.

“But he still has a vibe of [the] fourth [Doctor’s] OTT-ness, and the Victorian vibe of the first’s and the eighth’s.

“So if he is the 11th Doctor, I say bring it on.”

Elsewhere, someone writing as ‘B,’ said: “I heard David Morrissey is a future incarnation of the Doctor, who the tenth meets in this episode.

“Could he be David Tennant’s replacement?”

But ‘baldbilluk’ said: “Am I the only one who thinks that David Morrissey should NOT be the new Dr Who?

“He comes across as being a bit po-faced and a bit uptight.

“He would not stay long in the role, just like the guy who David Tennant replaced.”

And ‘Chiaroscuro’ said: “I would say he shouldn’t do it because I consider him too good for the role, but then I’d have said that of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant too.”

But someone purporting to be a BBC employee said: “It is my belief that David Morrissey is not going to replace David Tennant at the end of the current four specials.

“His Doctor is merely one possible future of the Doctor, and for reasons that will become apparent in the Christmas special, that won’t happen.

“There is one actor being hotly tipped to take over at the moment, and if I’m right it’s just a case of crossing the Ts and dotting the Is with someone who has been in many a blockbusting film, and, well I daren’t say more, but you’ll be surprised. Keep watching.”

A BBC spokeswoman said: “No future Dr Who has been confirmed yet.”

Morrissey, 43, would be the third Liverpudlian Dr Who – following in the footsteps of Tom Baker and Paul McGann.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Just so long as Morrissey doesn't do a scouse accent - I'll stop watching if that happens.

Sheepeh · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2320

“There is one actor being hotly tipped to take over at the moment, and if I’m right it’s just a case of crossing the Ts and dotting the Is with someone who has been in many a blockbusting film, and, well I daren’t say more, but you’ll be surprised. Keep watching.”

Not only are the news sites cruising BeeX for their articles, now people are stealing our funnies. How long before MTV's BurtTank's Best Friend hit's the airwaves?

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I really want Patterson Joseph as long as he remains posh

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sat Nov 22, 2008 14:12

Nirejhenge wrote:

I really want Patterson Joseph as long as he remains posh

Please.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

nervouspete wrote:

Nirejhenge wrote:

I really want Patterson Joseph as long as he remains posh

Please.

x 2

MarzSyndrome · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 426

Goatboy wrote:

Just so long as Morrissey doesn't do a scouse accent - I'll stop watching if that happens.

How about a Manc accent?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

MarzSyndrome wrote:

How about a Manc accent?

FTFY

Apropo of nothing, I am delighted to see Frank has the same taste in shoes as me.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 1:11

MarzSyndrome wrote:

Goatboy wrote:

Just so long as Morrissey doesn't do a scouse accent - I'll stop watching if that happens.

How about a Manc accent?

Can somebody tear me away from the winking Morrissey please?!

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