I think the distinction between "the Doctor can play" and "the actor playing the Doctor can play"?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 11:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah Capaldi was excellent (and a real dick) in his first season. Became less interesting in his second but then everything did.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 11:27 (seven years ago) link
Hayley Atwell wants to be the Doctor and would be great and just had her US crime procedural show cancelled I think? So that feels doable.
I also wouldn't object to Eddie Redmayne tbh although obviously he's too big already plus he'a already basically playing the doctor in a film series which has only just started.
― JimD, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link
OMG yes to Atwell, please. She's just the best and should probably be in everything, but I'll settle for Who
Alternately: Jason Statham, Tommy Davidson, Dabney Coleman, Nina Hagen, Bill Hader, CCH Pounder, or Jesse Camp.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link
Tim Roth has apparently been floating his name. Now that'd be a thing.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 14:27 (seven years ago) link
Grace Jones
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 14:33 (seven years ago) link
Jenna Louise Coleman would be a good Doctor. Just saying. But I think she's going to be busy with Victoria for a number of years.
― akm, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
A talking corgi
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Oh christ it's going to be Billie Bloody Piper isn't it?
― chap, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Jason Statham as the Doctor but only if he is playing it like he's in the Transporter movies
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
would prefer his character from Spy as the Doctor
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
Billie Piper might actually be cool. Yank speaking, but I've never actually understood the hatred for her. Lots of bad writing she suffered through, but she was a fine performer IIRC
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link
Billie Piper in and of herself is fine, it's the baggage that comes with what RTD did with Rose that is my problem.
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I don't object to her as a person/actress, but she should no way ever be in Doctor Who ever again (over here she's slightly tarnished by the baggage of her tabloid relationship with Chris Evans (not Captain America Chris Evans) as well).
― chap, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Atwell would be great, can certainly carry a leading role
Tim Roth slept with someone I know therefore can't be Dr Who as it's too ick. Also I have a weird feeling that he's a terrible actor
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/826462199849828353
― soref, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:11 (seven years ago) link
tim roth is very short.
― akm, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Tim Roth would not be right at all.
― chap, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
What is Toks Olagundoye up to these days?
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
Can't for the life of me find the current Who thread. What do we think of the bizarre companion rumours?
― chap, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 11:03 (six years ago) link
Not gonna say more other than seems a bit off that the majority of female companions have been gorgeous 20 somethings, and the first male companion to a female Doctor is him.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 11:05 (six years ago) link
Not v keen on anyone who has endorsed a Garry Bushell 'book'
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5141Yzc-UqL.jpg
― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 11:08 (six years ago) link
It's kind of a jerk move to have the first companion be a more well-known actor than the Doctor
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
(If that is the case.)
I guess Billie Piper was slightly more well known than Eccleston back in 05?
― chap, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
I liked him in Law & Order UK
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:39 (six years ago) link
He's not terrible, but he's kind of a poor man's David Jason/Dennis Waterman hybrid
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen him act.
― chap, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
not for acting tho
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
that garry bushell book reminds me i never got around to liveblogging here that best of bushell on tv collection i bought for that specific purpose
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
qscores.com doesn't have either of them in the database
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
big data fails to deliver on its promise yet again
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F027gc_g,%2Fm%2F05h48b
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
He's excellent in Law & Order UK. I might be alone in really liking his turn in Coronation Street as well. I'm basically totally pro-this as Bradley Walsh the actor is a very different beast from Bradley the game show host (though I think he's brilliant on The Chase as well but absolutely get how only knowing him from that and Wheel of Fortune and that would make you wary).
It's great how Americans don't get the baggage that goes with UK celebs, I think Corden* and Tate (and probably Barrowman) went down way better outside the UK where they all arrived with tons of baggage.
* I know you have him now, but when he was in Doctor Who he was very much ours
― ailsa, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
true. I had no reservations with Corden at the time and still rate his first episode very highly.
― akm, Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link