[dangus]

Now that Sherlock is wrapped up, another go at getting Benedict Cumberlatch to play Doctor Who seems obvious, but I’m betting he’s going to stick to Hollywood for the time being (no pun intended).

BBC doesn’t want to spend much $$ on Doctor Who; would they deliberately cultivate their American audience with a Brit who was well-known to Americans? Hugh Laurie (House, MD) has been unemployed long enough... Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert “the Watcher Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is a known Whovian...

[Chengdu54]

Just tossing out some impossible names —

Steve Martin

Woody Allen

Colin Firth

Bill Murray

Gary Oldman

Jean Reno

[backwoods-engineer]

Good, Capaldi was a TERRIBLE Doctor Who.

[mware]

First choice - Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Dr. Watson)

Second Choice - Timothy Spall (Remus Lupin Harry Potter Movies, father in The Boy in The Striped Pajamas)

[commish]

In homage to the lgbtqabcdef123 morons, the next doctor will not be a WHO but rather a WHAT. There will be no one Doctor - instead the Doctor will be randomly played from a lineup of Tom Hiddleston, Emma Watson, A moldy bit of cheese, two frogs (one called kipper and the other one now), a halibut.

[Rurudyne]

Thankfully, Rowen Atkinson’s Doctor Who effort already did the woman Doctor, whose sonic had three speed settings, IIRC, so this hopefully not likely.

http://youtu.be/Do-wDPoC6GM

[gymbeau]

I’ve watched the Doctor since the 1960’s when it ran on the CBC here in Canada (with about a decade off till PBS started...). Anyway, I started thinking it was going downhill when Moffat took over as show runner. He wrote some great who episodes (my wife still won’t watch “Blink”!) but the sense of fun was lost under his watch and instead it became bigger and badder and more “important.”

That said, I never made it through Capaldi’s first episode and haven’t been back. Time to watch “The Five Doctors” again, despite the lack of Tom Baker in it.

I think they forgot that it’s at heart a kids’ show. That doesn’t mean they have to dumb it down (far from it!), but they need to dance with the ones who brung them.

As for the next show runner, I hope whoever it is makes the Doctor great again! I’ve missed him.

cheers
Jim

[RaginRak]

maybe Samuel L. Jackson ??

[Migraine]

I’ll let you know after Thursday. I’m going to see Dr. Hu about my gout. She’s a rheumatologist, and I hope she will have some answers for me.

[mewzilla]

Tobias Menzies. Outlander fans will recognize the name.

[RightGeek]

I don’t care who it is as long as the Doctor wears a fez - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obnblNruPiU

[VietVet]

Wasn’t it a meme that Time Lords only had 12 regenerations? The Master got around that by taking over someone else’s body, but that was evil, and the Doctor wouldn’t do that. So he could only come back as one of his earlier regenerations. Perhaps the 12th Doctor was supposed to be a recycling of the 1st Doctor; they looked alike.

So any actor selected to portray the Doctor would have to resemble one of the first 11.

[TomGuy]

After Smith, I was kind of hoping Andrew-Lee Potts might get the part. He is youthful and was entertaining in the Primeval series.

[exPBRrat]

I’ll miss Peter Capaldi...

...he was the most entertaining DR for me and I’ve been watching since ‘72.

As far as the new DR goes hummm, I dunno.

[Tanniker Smith]

Look forward to a lot of speculation about a woman Doctor, and then have another guy named for the part. I think we'll see a black (British) Doctor before we see a female Doctor. Female Time Lords, sure, but I don't think we'll see a female Doctor just yet.

OTOH, just thinking out loud, with the Master being Missy right now, I could see next season turning into one long Girl Fight.

[Paradox]

You need someone with a quick whit, a true character, and something of a troll. I present:

Donald Trump!

Make the Doctor Great Again!

[10mm]

Chuck Norris. The Daleks would exterminate themselves.

[EveningStar]

ping