Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

Russell T. Davies has revealed his co-writers for the forthcoming Doctor Who specials in 2009.

"I can confirm that after Christmas 2008 there are a total of four more specials to come before the Steven Moffat era begins in 2010," Davies told Doctor Who Magazine. "Two of next year's four will be written by me, One will be written by me and Gareth Roberts and one will be co-written by me and Phil Ford."

Roberts has previously written episodes 'The Shakespeare Code' and 'The Unicorn And The Wasp' for Doctor Who, in addition to co-writing 'Invasion Of The Bane' with Davies for The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Ford has never scripted an episode of Doctor Who before, but is responsible for 'The Eye Of The Gorgon' and 'The Lost Boy' for Sarah Jane and 'Something Borrowed' for Torchwood.

also Agyeman isn't doin Torchwood

Is Mickey joining Captain Jack?

I don't know where else to ask this: If I've seen naught else but new Who, is it ok if I watched "City of Death" straight away?

Go for it. It doesn't really rely on any ongoing plotlines, and it's lots of fun.

My gf did exactly that, and she loved it.

A very good old-Who to start with.

on a different note, steven moffat was very funny at comic-con. his reply to a question about other doctor + rose: "gotta give the Doctor *some* credit for finding a way to get rid of his slightly clingy girlfriend. another universe didn't work."

Were you there, Roz? I was half-asleep at the panel. Moffat speaks an awful lot like Dr. Tennant, yes?

Rewatched the finale again this week and realised that I am, in fact, very slow:

Russell T Davies must have wrote that last five minutes that has the Doctor wiping Timelord Donna back into normal Donna and handing her back to her family intending 'Donna' to represent the show and the Doctor as Rusty himself, right?

Cue Cribbins' "She was better with you! She was!" line, as well as all the rest of it. Dur. Can't believe it took me long to figure that out. Symbolism and meanings all working on a different level, or something.

Don't blame me - I'm just a temp and I'm no one special.

That's awfully cynical.

Not necessarily an invalid reading though.

Interesting to say the least.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AnR1CZbvhEM

Sounds a wee bit like DT, but they were both brought up in the same town, so not surprising.

Were you there, Roz?

Hehe nah i was actually looking for reports from the LOST panel and got sidetracked by Who/Torchwood on youtube. Didn't see all of it, but the bits I did see was lols. Moffat does talk a bit like Tennant but with the Doctor's habit of going off on tangents.

in that YT clip Moffat hints that he doesn't like prequels (re Star Wars ref) so no Time War stuff (as if this wasn't obvious for it would require McGann/Eccles surely)

Suspect he'll draw a line under all the Rusty stuff and concentrate on building his own supporting cast and mythology - River Song is probably the first bit of that. We'll probably see Jack again though.

River Song is probably the first bit of that.

I'd wondered about this. I remember her lines about how *her* Doctor looked much older which made me wonder if that meant oldster Tennant or old 11 or what.

i think Moffat says in that clip that he was being intentionally ambiguous about that. he really does seem like an actual hybrid of RTD and Tennant at times.

Tennant's dating Georia Moffett now apparently.

That's been going on a while. Given what a Peter Davison freak he is, that smacks horribly of when Nicolas Cage married Lisa-Marie Presley.

heh is there anyone left on the show who hasn't slept with DT?

Barrowman?

but you know he would if he could.

I'm sure there's enough slash on the subject to fill a small country.

I smell a new thread

I'm sure there's enough slash on the subject to fill a small country.

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my girlfriend has read and rated most of it

Blimey. Georgia Moffett is only 23 but she's got a six year old son. And he's called Tyler.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7618537.stm

I realise this may already be true for some posters here so I should shut up, but a little bolt of horror just went through me at the thought of being older than the Doctor. Just doesn't feel right!

I read somewhere before that Davies wanted the guy who played the Son in the Family of Blood as the new Doctor too and he's even younger than Russell Tovey.

It's got fuck all to do with Davies now, so who cares. He's stuck with Tennant until Moffat takes over.

I think this is more of a crush list than any real shortlist of next doctors.

That guy looks like a younger version of Wallace (& Gromit).

I would be an awesome Doctor Who.

They've confirmed the title of the Christmas Special - it's "The Next Doctor". Wouldn't it be kind of ace if it turned out to be a two-doctor story, but with Tennant + Doctor 11? I mean, wouldn't it have been kind of ace if The Five Doctors had originally been shown as part of Troughton's run, and then we'd had to wait for Pertwee and Baker and Davison to all turn up as leads? So yeah, now I've had this thought, my heart is set on that happening, and I'm inevitably going to be disappointed when it doesn't.

The prospect is enormously exciting because one day it will actually happen.

This is exciting because I suggested David Morrissey as the next doctor ages ago, and he is in the Christmas special and I thought that would preclude him being the actual next doctor, but perhaps I might actually have called something right for once in my life. Probably not though.

would be super-lame to have a "the doctor regenerates!" cliffhanger in ep 12 that turns out to be a fake-out, then have the plot of 'ep 14' be "the doctor regenerates!"

^^would not put it past RTD though. and it's possible that the doctor doesn't in fact regenerate in ep 14 - he just meets the future version of himself.

ailsa, i totally support your call for david morrissey as the next doctor, i think he'd be great.

I only really know him from this:

http://www.fest21.com/files/images/BASIC%20INSTINCT%202.jpg

And even speaking as a fan of bad campfests I ended up only watching maybe twenty minutes of it. Hopefully he's better in something that's not so horrible.

Meeting a future version would be better than a regeneration, I think. Presumably Rusty's working with Moffatt on what the long-term plans are though and with full regenerations a bit thin on the ground now they're not going to spunk one on a one-off special.

Morrissey would make a great Doctor but I'm not sure I want Tennant to leave yet. Hopefully Morrissey will be a bit sulkier and ruder to people.

I've never seen Basic Instinct 2, but loved him in Blackpool and State of Play (any lurking BBC types, please repeat these kthanxbye) and the odd one-off thing I've seen him in. He reminds me in style of Christopher Eccleston.

this sucks. Tennant 4 EVAH.

yeah would rather Tennant stay on really, but in the event he doesn't, Morrissey seems a better choice than most - I liked him in Blackpool and State of Play too. Dude doesn't have much luck in big Hollywood movies though, he was also in the supremely terrible The Reaping.

fuck it we're probably all wrong and it's gonna be some dude we've never heard of.

Some of you might be interested in this, or at least have dork friends who die to attend:

Dick Mills, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop sound design expert who provided sound effects throughout almost the entire run of the classic Doctor Who series in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, will be giving a free seminar at the National Media Museum in Bradford on October 22nd, from 6pm.

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/General/home.asp?WhatsOn=4&y=&m=&d=&eventTypeID=5

Xmas special preview

Okay, this is the one based on the audio "The One Doctor," right? Aldo, does the companion stick around for ALL of next year's specials?

Is the fact that David Morrissey holds an actual screwdriver rather than a sonic screwdriver a clue or just proof that the BBC is a bit short after paying Jonathan Ross 18 squillion quid?

Okay, this is the one based on the audio "The One Doctor," right?

DING DING DING

No companion as such at Christmas. Upper Boat playing very funny buggers, allegedly paying people to spread disinformation, so little confirmed about specials.

Oh right, so I have six weeks of people going DUH OBVIOUSLY THAT WILL/WON'T HAPPEN, patting themselves on the back for having read a book, and all speculation being laughed at. Brilliant :-(

So, erm, just like every other Doctor Who thread.

Morrissey's Doctor looks way cool. I'm holding out for him to be a cocky, zingy bastard.