David Tennant to quit as Doctor Who


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Zombieneighbours wrote:
David Fryer wrote:
I would like to see David Oyelowo in the role. I really enjoyed his work on Spooks or MI-5 here in the states. I just feel that he would make an excellent replacement for Tennant. Tennant was the one who really sealed the deal for me on the new series. I always felt that Eccelston was too angsty to be the Doctor, although I have enjoyed his work on other projects.
Going with the spooks things. Miranda Raison, who plays joe in spooks would make a cool doctor.

True, but as I understand it, Galifrains are still locked into one gender, even if they can become a myrid of individuals as a result of their regeneration. However, I'm not sure if that has actually been explored or not.


Matthew Morris wrote:
How about Catherine Tate? ;-)

Die, die-die, die die die die die DIE!!!!!!


David Fryer wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
David Fryer wrote:
I would like to see David Oyelowo in the role. I really enjoyed his work on Spooks or MI-5 here in the states. I just feel that he would make an excellent replacement for Tennant. Tennant was the one who really sealed the deal for me on the new series. I always felt that Eccelston was too angsty to be the Doctor, although I have enjoyed his work on other projects.
Going with the spooks things. Miranda Raison, who plays joe in spooks would make a cool doctor.
True, but as I understand it, Galifrains are still locked into one gender, even if they can become a myrid of individuals as a result of their regeneration. However, I'm not sure if that has actually been explored or not.

It sort of was in a charity special, 'Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death' (1999). Whether or not this counts as being 'official' (it started off with Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor) is open to question....

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David Fryer wrote:
Chris Mortika wrote:


Given his mood at the end of the fourth series, he'd probably come back as Patrick Stewart, playing a dour little monk.
As I understand it, Patrick Stewert is busy working on Eleventh Hour.

BBC or CBS version?

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JoelF847 wrote:
David Fryer wrote:
Chris Mortika wrote:


Given his mood at the end of the fourth series, he'd probably come back as Patrick Stewart, playing a dour little monk.
As I understand it, Patrick Stewert is busy working on Eleventh Hour.
BBC or CBS version?

BBC version.


One thing worth bearing in mind is that there's always lots of speculation as to who the new Doctor will be, including various names being put forward as "front runners", but no-one ever gets it right...

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David Fryer wrote:
True, but as I understand it, Galifrains are still locked into one gender, even if they can become a myrid of individuals as a result of their regeneration. However, I'm not sure if that has actually been explored or not.

I think it's one of the areas that's always been a bit vague, or at least one where the shows writers/producers have changed their minds several times; that said the Romana 1 --> Romana 2 regeneration is probably the most "liberal" (for wont of a better word) end of what's possible during a regeneration (though that was initiated voluntarily).

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David Fryer wrote:
True, but as I understand it, Galifrains are still locked into one gender, even if they can become a myrid of individuals as a result of their regeneration. However, I'm not sure if that has actually been explored or not.

Haven't seen "Curse of the Fatal Death" have you? ;)


BBC radio one just announced that the role of the doctor is up for grabs and its open to anyone male or female.

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R-type wrote:
BBC radio one just announced that the role of the doctor is up for grabs and its open to anyone male or female.

But, but... what if you're both? There's no and/or in there, just an or!

EDIT: ;)-


Hmmmmm... David Morrissey is in the special next year called 'The Next Doctor'.


flash_cxxi wrote:
R-type wrote:
BBC radio one just announced that the role of the doctor is up for grabs and its open to anyone male or female.
But, but... what if you're both? There's no and/or in there, just an or!

True, I think 'anyone' covers that though. BUCK ANGEL as the next Doctor anyone?! :D


I would *SQEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* till the cows came home if it were... TILDA SWINTON! I LOOOVE HER!


I skipped to the end to enthusiastically add my suggestion, then I'll go back and read it all:

Bill Nighy. He looks like a young Hartnell! :)


I think it's about time for a fat, bald-headed guy in a seersucker suit to step up to the plate. What a fab Doctor that would be!


Krypter wrote:
I think it's about time for a fat, bald-headed guy in a seersucker suit to step up to the plate. What a fab Doctor that would be!

Yes, I would like a chubby timelord.

Strangely enough, I'm listening to Radio one now and lots of people are saying David Mitchell (from Peep Show). He's a little posh fat guy, pretty good actor and witty to boot!

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R-type wrote:
BBC radio one just announced that the role of the doctor is up for grabs and its open to anyone male or female.

I Don't think I would watch the show if they made the Doctor a female. Call me a purist or a sexist but I can't imagine the Doctor as anything other than male. The BBC could make him any race or change his sexual preference, I wouldn't care but I draw the line at a female Doctor.

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Krypter wrote:
I think it's about time for a fat, bald-headed guy in a seersucker suit to step up to the plate. What a fab Doctor that would be!

How about making the next Doctor not British? Open the roll selection to everyone. I would love to see a French Doctor or maybe Spanish.

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Epic Meepo wrote:
If you listen to his dialogue at the end of The Sound of Drums...

Er, I meant to say "the dialogue at the end of Utopia," I do believe.

EDIT: And if the role is truly open to anyone, what about this? After colliding with another spacetime distortion, the Doctor reverse regenerates into Peter Davison! Then we get a 'new' Doctor without officially using up any regenerations. And an excuse to have Chistopher Eccleston and David Tennant return in future seasons.

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Zombieneighbours wrote:
Matthew Morris wrote:
How about Catherine Tate? ;-)

Die, die-die, die die die die die DIE!!!!!!

Tell us what you really think.

Ubermench wrote:
How about making the next Doctor not British? Open the roll selection to everyone. I would love to see a French Doctor or maybe Spanish.

I'm not sure the British audience would be too thrilled about an iconic British TV character being French or Spanish. And if you really wanted to make them upset, cast an American.

Although, if the Rani ever returns, she should definitely be played by an Indian actress, given that "rani" is an Indian title.

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R-type wrote:
Hmmmmm... David Morrissey is in the special next year called 'The Next Doctor'.

Not next year—this Christmas!

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Ubermench wrote:
How about making the next Doctor not British? Open the roll selection to everyone. I would love to see a French Doctor or maybe Spanish.

I'm not sure the British audience would be too thrilled about an iconic British TV character being French or Spanish. And if you really wanted to make them upset, cast an American.

Although, if the Rani ever returns, she should definitely be played by an Indian actress, given that "rani" is an Indian title.

As an American I would hate to have an American Doctor, it just wouldn't be right. Doctor Who should be kept away from any possible conection to Hollywood and an American Doctor would suggest a possible link.

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Strangely enough, I agree about an American Doctor.

Then again, as much as I enjoy John Barrowman, the thought of him playing Cap (per wiki, he's interested) makes me twitch for similar reasons.

Maybe do some flashbacks with Kate O'Mara, then have the Rani regenerate into the woman from the new Robin Hood series?


How about Peter Wingfield? He's British, and he pulled off playing an ancient immortal (5,000+ years) in the Highlander TV series.


Bellona wrote:

How about Peter Wingfield? He's British, and he pulled off playing an ancient immortal (5,000+ years) in the Highlander TV series.

Squee! Methos! I loves him. :D


Lilith wrote:
Bellona wrote:

How about Peter Wingfield? He's British, and he pulled off playing an ancient immortal (5,000+ years) in the Highlander TV series.

Squee! Methos! I loves him. :D

Ditto! :)

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Vic Wertz wrote:
R-type wrote:
Hmmmmm... David Morrissey is in the special next year called 'The Next Doctor'.
Not next year—this Christmas!

That is mid-way through next year for me here in Australia! :(


Bellona wrote:

How about Peter Wingfield? He's British, and he pulled off playing an ancient immortal (5,000+ years) in the Highlander TV series.

Nah, he looks too harsh. He'd make a good Master though.

The Doctor has to be British. The series is Britain's gift to the world, and it wouldn't be the same with a different nationality. I wouldn't mind an older senior Doctor either, as I really liked the cantankerous but charming First Doctor.


Lilith wrote:
Bellona wrote:

How about Peter Wingfield? He's British, and he pulled off playing an ancient immortal (5,000+ years) in the Highlander TV series.

Squee! Methos! I loves him. :D

Methos for pure win!


This is too bad, I really liked him as the Doctor, next to Tom Baker he was my fav. Although I wonder if this can really go on, I think he's out of regenerations. Wasn't it part of Doctor lore that Time Lords got 12 or 13 regenerations only? And hes what ten or eleven so the next guy is it. Not that they can't write something around that easily.

This also brings up the idea of will we ever have more then one doctor meet in the current series. We'll have three actors who could do it now. And I'm not sure which of the older actors are still with us who would be willing to do it. Still that'd be fun to see.

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Andre Caceres wrote:
This is too bad, I really liked him as the Doctor, next to Tom Baker he was my fav. Although I wonder if this can really go on, I think he's out of regenerations. Wasn't it part of Doctor lore that Time Lords got 12 or 13 regenerations only? And hes what ten or eleven so the next guy is it. Not that they can't write something around that easily.

The next Doctor will be number 11, so two more to go after him (12 Regenerations = 13 Doctors).

Andre Caceres wrote:
This also brings up the idea of will we ever have more then one doctor meet in the current series. We'll have three actors who could do it now. And I'm not sure which of the older actors are still with us who would be willing to do it. Still that'd be fun to see.

There was a 5 minute "Children in Need Special" last year called Time Crash that is set right before the Christmas Special. In it, David Tennant meets Peter Davison inside the TARDIS as two timelines intersect. I enjoyed it simply because Peter Davison (and Pat Troughton) was my favourite Doctor.


flash_cxxi wrote:
There was a 5 minute "Children in Need Special" last year called Time Crash that is set right before the Christmas Special. In it, David Tennant meets Peter Davison inside the TARDIS as two timelines intersect. I enjoyed it simply because Peter Davison (and Pat Troughton) was my favourite Doctor.

Yeah, that was great. Just as Tennant said, he was "my doctor", the one I grew up with. I remember being inconsolable when he died in the Caves of Androzani as I had not yet grokked the concept of regeneration. And I hated the Doctor that came after.


Epic Meepo wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
Matthew Morris wrote:
How about Catherine Tate? ;-)

Die, die-die, die die die die die DIE!!!!!!

Tell us what you really think.

Ok. Uh, repeat that idea, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain.

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Zombieneighbours wrote:
Epic Meepo wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
Matthew Morris wrote:
How about Catherine Tate? ;-)

Die, die-die, die die die die die DIE!!!!!!

Tell us what you really think.

Ok. Uh, repeat that idea, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain.

Spoiler:
Catherine Tate for the Doctor!

Matthew Morris wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
Epic Meepo wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
Matthew Morris wrote:
How about Catherine Tate? ;-)

Die, die-die, die die die die die DIE!!!!!!

Tell us what you really think.

Ok. Uh, repeat that idea, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain.

** spoiler omitted **

*Screams is agonised hatred!*

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Zombieneighbours wrote:
Matthew Morris wrote:
** spoiler omitted **
*Screams is agonised hatred!*

Am I bovvered?


Vic Wertz wrote:
Zombieneighbours wrote:
Matthew Morris wrote:
** spoiler omitted **
*Screams is agonised hatred!*
Am I bovvered?

Oh....oh...if you didn't work for my corrent faverate publishing house, you'd be in trouble now young sir....


Apparently the next Doctor is Colin Salmon (from the bond movies). According to todays Sun newsrag.

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So Dr. Moon is going to become Dr. Who.

We just got our first black president and now we have our first black Doctor, the universe must have shifted to the dark side and nobody told us. ;)

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R-type wrote:
Apparently the next Doctor is Colin Salmon (from the bond movies). According to todays Sun newsrag.

Excellent. As I said in one of my post above: if they're gonna have a Black Doctor then it should be Colin Salmon. He is a brilliant actor. I am pleased with that decision if it is actually true.


Well, The Sun isn't always right but we shall see. ;)

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Eveything I remember Colin Salmon being in he played a humorless hardass. Is there any of his work that shows his humor?


The Doctor has been humorless before -Colin Baker! :P

Hey, anyone remember when the rumour that Jason Stateham (the bald dude from the cheapo kicksplosion flicks/whatever he's called) was gonna be the next Doctor was floating around?! Imagine that!

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R-type wrote:

The Doctor has been humorless before -Colin Baker! :P

ba dum bum ching


That would be one of the few black actors who would make a good Doctor. His mellifluous voice almost puts me to sleep though. I guess he could be the Soothing Doctor, after the frenetic energy of the Manic Doctor! :)

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R-type wrote:


Hey, anyone remember when the rumour that Jason Stateham (the bald dude from the cheapo kicksplosion flicks/whatever he's called) was gonna be the next Doctor was floating around?! Imagine that!

We would end up with a Doctor that doesn’t think but can kick a@@, literally.

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R-type wrote:
Apparently the next Doctor is Colin Salmon (from the bond movies). According to todays Sun newsrag.

All of the below quotes are taken from the Outpost Gallifrey news archive:


  • February 27, 2006: A report in Saturday's The Sun says that "Doctor Who is to land in EastEnders -- and be served pints in the Queen Vic by Peggy Mitchell. The telly Timelord, played by David Tennant, will touch down his time-travelling Tardis in Albert Square in the new series of the BBC1 sci-fi hit..."

  • August 5, 2006: The Sun reports that "Footballers' Wives star Zoe Lucker is being lined up to play Doctor Who's evil arch-enemy The Rani..."

  • May 15, 2007: The Sun reports that Woody Allen will be appearing as Albert Einstein in the Christmas Special.

  • August 29, 2007: David Bowie's website has debunked a story in The Sun that claimed Bowie would be appearing in Doctor Who as "an evil alien abductor". The Sun connects the Bowie rumor with the upcoming Agatha Christie story, which they erroneously describe as a two-part special. Bowie's website says, "... the whole story is as much news to [Bowie fans] as it is to him. David Bowie is not planning to star in Dr Who and the whole story is 'absolute tish and tosh'."

  • December 29, 2007: The Sun is claiming that Kylie Minogue's sister Dannii is "tipped" for a role in Torchwood.

...and on and on. Now, they do occasionally get it right, but I chalk that up to the "even a broken clock is right twice a day" phenomenon.

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Vic Wertz wrote:

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  • May 15, 2007: The Sun reports that Woody Allen will be appearing as Albert Einstein in the Christmas Special.
    ...
  • Ok, Am I the only one who would've been stoked if that had happened? It sounds fairly awesome to me...though I am a fan of neurosis in the first place...

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    Vic Wertz wrote:


  • May 15, 2007: The Sun reports that Woody Allen will be appearing as Albert Einstein in the Christmas Special.

  • If it's true, then I will have to skip this episode. Woody Allen creeps me out.

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    David Fryer wrote:
    Vic Wertz wrote:


  • May 15, 2007: The Sun reports that Woody Allen will be appearing as Albert Einstein in the Christmas Special.

  • If it's true, then I will have to skip this episode. Woody Allen creeps me out.

    Check the date. It was for last year. didn't happen. Kind of a shame really. I would've preferred it over what was put on I think.

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