Matt Smith to leave Doctor Who?.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4854006/matt-smith-set-to-leave-doctor-who-at-christ ^ | 22nd March 2013 | LEIGH HOLMWOOD

[the scotsman]

'DOCTOR Who bosses are lining up Matt Smith’s exit for Christmas — when he will regenerate into the 12th Time Lord.

Insiders say the festive special will be Matt’s last outing as The Doctor, after a triumphant four years in the role.

The actor has made no bones about his ambition to crack Hollywood and has filmed new movie How To Catch A Monster with Ryan Gosling, which is released next year.

Sources say bosses already have an idea of who they want to replace him, with work on the special due to get under way later in the year.

Matt’s contract is understood to expire in November but we understand he doesn’t want it renewed.

Filming on the 50th anniversary episode, airing in November, will begin next month.'

[DB]

Tom Baker was definitely my favorite.

[Apple Blossom]

ping

[blu]

Rose (Billy Piper) and the “alt Doctor (Tenant) are still alive in an alt universe.

Do a little wibbly wobbly time stuff and bring em back!

[wally_bert]

Leela was always one of my top favorite companions. Jo Grant is up there too.

[highball]

I know all good things and all that, but I’ll be sad when he leaves.

Smith is my favorite Doctor. The way he can pinball from whimsy to melancholy is brilliant. And he’s one of the few actors to make the character believable as so terribly old.

[Tanniker Smith]

Eccleston and Tennant were excellent.

If you liked them, then Matt Smith might not appeal to you. This is anecdotal, but I've found that those who like Matt Smith think that Tennant was too whiny. Maybe he was at times, but he was brilliant at others.

It could also be the writing that bothers me about Smith. It's uneven and tries to be cute far too much. Davies and Moffat were great together, but alone ... not as good as it should be.

I wish Eccleston had had another season so that the stories had a chance to take off.

[Tanniker Smith]

Also, Andrew-Lee Potts (Connor) from Primeval would make a viable new Doctor.

I could see that. And he's young enough for the physical part of the job. (There's always a lot of running. That's why they wear sneakers.)

[Tanniker Smith]

they were supposed to only have 9 regenerations but.... its TV of course

Twelve, actually. But they'll hand-wave that somehow.

[mnehring]

Too old. One thing a lot of fans have picked up on is that each regeneration is younger. They will either need to keep the pattern going (and eventually have a teen drama- eeek), break the rule, or deny the pattern existed.

[MrB]

I think he’s Canadian...

Wouldn’t that disqualify him?

[knittnmom]

I don’t have time to research it right now, but there was an episode with either Tom Baker or Peter Davison in which the # of regenerations was raised to unlimited because of some experience with an electrical shock or some such.

[kevkrom]

I’m sure the next Doctor will be ginger.

I dunno. Seems to be a running joke that he's never a ginger...

[Chipper]

bfl. Like Smith a lot. My favorite episodes have been with him.

[kevkrom]

A week or so ago BBC had a couple of the earliest episodes, one about a Dalik hibernation temple and another about the Mayans, of course both were in black and white. I really enjoyed them, I heard many of the original 1960 era episodes sadly are lost, it would be historical if for some reason they were found, restored and optionally digitally remastered and colorized on Bluray discs.

As noted, they're doing a 50th anniversary series, focusing on one Doctor each month. January was William Hartnell, and they showed The Aztecs. February was Patrick Troughton, with Tomb of the Cybermen. March will be Jon Pertwee -- I'm going to place my bets on Doctor Who and the Silurians as the episode to show. April for Tom Baker (my guess: Genesis of the Daleks), May for Peter Davison (any guesses?), June for Colin Baker (again, I'm stumped), July for Sylvester McCoy (guessing The Curse of Fenric), August for Paul McGann (no options here, it must be the "TV movie" they made for Fox), September for Christopher Eccelson (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances?), October for David Tennant (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead?), November for Matt Smith (The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang?).

That leaves the December special to focus on the new 12th Doctor...

[kevkrom]

As for the lost episodes... it is indeed tragic, but many of the archived film prints were (inadvertently) sent to the furnaces. Some have been reconstructed from other sources (mostly prints that had been on loan to other stations, I believe), much several of the Hartnell and many of the Troughton stories were lost permanently.

[Sloth]

I want to see Richard Ayoade as the Doctor.

[Jack Hydrazine]

EXACTLY!!!

[Jack Hydrazine]

I guess in a way she would qualify even though she was a traveling companion.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Here are a couple of other Doctor music vids.

Goodbye my lover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEGEN7VZuqk

Tears and Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kurgoftx2yw

This one is the best of the two but YT blocked the sound, but you can download it with sound (which I did).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0cx2mW5hAE

[william clark]

I hope they forego the trend of making each Doctor younger than the last. I really don’t want to see Freddie Highmore in the role. I’d love to see a return to the more “seasoned” type of Doctor, someone like a John Cleese, Jim Broadbent or Bernard Hill.