Posted on 01/23/2022 12:02:13 PM PST by mylife
According to rumours, David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor between 2005 and 2010, has been cast as the next Doctor.
And if the circulating rumours are to be believed it would make the Scottish actor the first and only actor to play two incarnations of the Timelord.
The tip off was spotted on a Facebook fan page, in which a user suggested a credible BBC source had leaked the information.
The user claims this source is the same person who leaked the casting of Sacha Dhawan as the Doctor’s nemesis, The Master, in series 12.
The original source of the rumour suggests Tennant would be the Doctor for just three specials and then another actor would take over after.
Could this have any truth? As the frequently most popular voted Doctor, Tennant would certainly draw many fans back from a show that lost a substantial amount of viewers in recent years.
RTD is reassembling some of his old team so would it be so odd for him to bring back his former leading man too? RTD’s first episode is also the 60th anniversary which would likely be bringing back past Doctors anyway, and we’d be very surprised if Tennant wasn’t one of them.
As for in-story reasons, we know it is possible for the Doctor to keep an appearance (he purposely kept the same face in “Journey’s End”), and the Curator also showed he will revisit some “old favourites” in “The Day of the Doctor”.
Then again, it could all be a load of old rubbish…
Maybe. In the fiftieth anniversary special Tom Baker (Fourth Doctor) appeared as the museum's curator, telling Matt Smith's Doctor that in years to come he might revisit past appearances "but only the favorites".
I missed that
“a show that lost a substantial amount of viewers in recent years.”
Going woke with female doctors, LGBTQ and social justice issues will cause a loss of viewers.
Bring back Tom Baker!
Not a fan either.
That looks like Psaki’s abortive mother.
Oh I hope this is true! Love David Tennant. He was incredibly funny in Staged.
I hope this means they are getting good writers too.
I stopped watching when the Lady Doctor arrived, I won’t go back until they fire every last writer from that incarnation.
just dropping all the woke BS would go a long way. But if they won't then even a time travelling Tom Baker from 1976 taking the role cant make it watchable.
Me neither....I refuse to watch it.
If they were more creative and weren’t so stuck on their idiotic liberal “first woman Doctor!!!!” squee-fest, they coulda done this story:
The 12th Doctor disappears for a while. No one knows where he is or what he is doing. Next season, post-Capaldi, the BBC announces they are going to cast Jodie Whittaker as Romana...going on adventures, possibly searching for the Doctor? Maybe bring back Lalla Ward for a cameo.
I woulda watched the stuffing outta that.
I havent watched since the 80s. Seems I have some catching up to do.
It also would have been interesting to introduce some other Time Lords who somehow survived the destruction of Gallifrey. How did they do that? That’s why you have writers! Time Lords are masters of time and space. Show some creativity and tell us how they did it!
That would have been worth watching!
But I did enjoy watching the episodes with this couple..."Come along, Ponds!"
It’s amazing the way the Brits routinely replace major characters on shows and it doesn’t seem to hurt the ratings. Some shows, over a few years, they replace EVERYBODY and the show plays on! I don’t have the sense that that’d work on American TV.
You're not alone. I've never watched the series either, and I've got loads of DNA from the Brits, the Scots, and the Welsh. I watch a lot of UK programming because I download it on the internet. I love David Tennant. He's a great actor, and can play any role. He and Michael Sheen were great in "Good Omens," and a second season has been ordered. Lord only knows when it will air. Tennant's most recent series to be aired is "Around the World in 80 Days" on PBS. He plays Phileas Fogg. He was also excellent as the evil Kilgrave in Netflix's "Jessica Jones" (Marvel).
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