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BBC Announces New Dr. Who (AND HE'S 26!)
BBC ^ | January 03 2009 | BBC

Posted on 01/03/2009 10:40:45 AM PST by Molnar

The BBC today announced that Matt Smith has been cast in the role of the Doctor in the iconic BBC series Doctor Who. Smith will be the eleventh Time Lord and will take over from David Tennant who leaves the show at the end of 2009. He will be seen in the forthcoming fifth series that will be broadcast in 2010.

The fifth series will also have a new lead writer and Executive Producer in the form of the BAFTA award winning writer Steven Moffat who is taking over from Russell T Davies. Moffat will be joined by Piers Wenger who will be the new Executive Producer for BBC Wales making the show.

Following David Tennant's decision to step down at the end of 2009, the team behind the new series set about casting the new Doctor so that new adventures could be created and scripts written with Matt in mind.

The identity of the new Doctor was revealed on a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential that was broadcast on BBC One on January 3rd at 17.35hrs. In it Smith revealed his initial reaction at taking on such a legendary role and his thoughts on what direction the Doctor might now be going with him playing the part.

Matt Smith said of his new role "I'm just so excited about the journey that is in front of me. It's a wonderful privilege and challenge that I hope I will thrive on. I feel proud and honoured to have been given this opportunity to join a team of people that has worked so tirelessly to make the show so thrilling.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bbc; doctorwho; scifi
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To: Vaquero

The best three Star Trek movies are, of course, the Wrath of Khan, the Voyage Home and Galaxy Quest.


41 posted on 01/03/2009 1:27:58 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Galaxy Quest....starring Hans Gruber as Spock....heh,heh.


42 posted on 01/03/2009 1:58:55 PM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Molnar
Bring back Sylvester McCoy!


43 posted on 01/03/2009 3:41:59 PM PST by exile (I will NOT submit.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave
The good doctor...

That's where I started watching, and was a loyal viewer. 'Threw out the TV awhile after the show got a new Dr. Who.

Sometimes it was difficult to follow: should have had subtitles. :)

44 posted on 01/03/2009 4:38:17 PM PST by Does so (Liberals are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Does so

Exterminate...exterminate...

45 posted on 01/03/2009 5:13:43 PM PST by Las Vegas Dave (Illegitimi non carborundum - "Don't let the bastards grind you down")
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To: Tanniker Smith

Yeah, I know it’s rhetorical, but you’re really making me feel old, especially considering that I’m younger than this guy and I was in the target audience for Buffy (and he probably was too)! Although, it’s not THAT old, it only ended in 2003 IIRC...

Although, I have to disagree with your assessment. My reaction on seeing that picture is definitely nothing like ‘ewww’ =P and from what I could see of the BBC video, he looked like he’d do fine for the part. In any case, this is the biggest non-soap show in England, and Moffat could have probably gotten pretty much any English actor he wanted, so there’s got to be a good reason why he picked this guy.

On another note, I’m looking forward to Moffat taking over! No more little annoying ‘Look! This character is gay!’ moments, and lots more suspense and scary monsters! YAY!


46 posted on 01/03/2009 7:57:37 PM PST by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Clemenza

I remember that great scene in Clerks 2. Absolutely nailed LOTR. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAEo3CWeq8


47 posted on 01/04/2009 5:25:46 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Vaquero

Check out a classic DW serial like Infero. It wil l have you hooked. Star Wars isn’t even Science Fiction. It’s a hokey Wild West shoot out in space.


48 posted on 05/29/2009 8:32:34 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Which of the new ones have you seen? The best of them are terrific and as good as any SF on TV. The old series wasn’t low budget by choice. They would have made them more slick if they ahd the money to do so.


49 posted on 05/29/2009 8:34:25 AM PDT by Borges
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To: denydenydeny
Gridlock! That episode won an award from some Christian group for its positive portrayal of spirituality.
50 posted on 05/29/2009 8:38:49 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Doctor Who is lame to me. I remember when the original DW was on(60's or 70's my CRS is actiong up). I hated it and still do..to British for my Yank sensibilities.

yes I agree about star wars being wild west but if you check my name, Vaquero means Cowboy. (my favorite Star wars are episode 5 and 3...you know, the dark ones. I hate the boring ones(episode 1) and the cute ones ( ewoks need to be cooked for dinner...))

My favorite SF was Star Trek the original series and ‘Enterprise’( cause they have no wussy prime directive) and The second and last movies.....Wrath of Kahn was wonderful and it is surpassed by the new one, ‘Star Trek’ which I need to see again. the first 2 Alien movies were great...and my favorite books run from Azimov, Bradbury to Clarke, and Crichton.

Stuff I HATE Dr Who, Hitchhikers guide (direct ripoff of Venus on the Half Shell) and that Red Dwarf abomination.

51 posted on 05/29/2009 8:47:53 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

You sound like you just don’t like the British approach to SF/Fantasy. DO you dislike Blake’s 7’ as well? In it’s 45 year history, DW has incorporated virtually every form of storytelling except musical comedy (but stay tuned!).


52 posted on 05/29/2009 8:50:57 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

yes I dislike that one also.

I like AC Clarke’s stuff, he’s a Brit. 2001 was a movie that needed the book for a guide....but once read, the movie was excellent. (just watching that movie without understanding it was what acid heads here went to see in the late 60’s)

Sci Fi needs to be on film not video tape. or something else they do in England that still dumbfounds me, Video tape indoors and film outdoors....What the hell is that? (Python did an excellent job of spoofing that)


53 posted on 05/29/2009 9:06:14 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

British SF is more like theater. And there’s a reason there aren’t many SF plays. The two don’t usually go well together.


54 posted on 05/29/2009 9:07:43 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
I have friends in theater.

I try....really I do...but I don't like the majority of it. Call me a Philistine. I also dislike Jazz. I can listen to rock, blues, bluegrass, country, classical, swing, but my "intellectual" friends tell me I am a Philistine for not liking Jazz.... I just hate it and could really care less about what they think.

55 posted on 05/29/2009 9:22:27 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Borges

I watched the first 5 or 6 when the series first hit the Sci-Fi channel. I didn’t care for it much. Perhaps it’s gotten better. Dunno. I’ll check more out at some point I’m sure. Though, I did see the episode(s) concerning the death of the last Dalek and thought that one wasn’t half bad.


56 posted on 05/31/2009 8:44:03 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Barack Hussein Obama is a walking middle finger.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

in retrospect the first season (with Eccleston) was the weakest of the new series. Check out the ones with Tennant.


57 posted on 05/31/2009 12:51:25 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Molnar

New DW promo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yhKJmzPgfk


58 posted on 03/31/2010 4:08:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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