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

He was captain of the school football team as well.

Oh good, another good thread is going to be infected by creepiness and resentment.

:-D

Nah, I'm still not going to watch a fucking sci-fi show.

he was a 2-step DJ when we were 16/17.

This combination of words just broke my head.

i just watched the xmas special and wanted to put in my 2 cents, or pence, or whatever:

-the xmas special was super mega weak sauce, i'm surprised so many people liked it. i didn't hate it, but the sheer number of plotholes and weird contrivances were a distraction.

-i have faith in this new guy. he's got a very "doctory" look. you know jack will be happy about it, at least.

So it's a foppish, posh-school prefect as the Doctor. He's like a young Bill Nighy, with a bit too much going on with his face and hair and stuff. If they'd waited ten years or so, he'd be perfect.
Still, a much better choice than all the other candidates, Chiwetel Ejiofor excepted.

I'm kinda disappointed it's not Johnson off Peep Show, I would've been intrigued to see that. Ejiofer would've been good, but he's too high profile probably. Never heard of Smith, and I'm going to reserve judgment.

boo what happened to our black Doctor

Paterson Joseph? That was just a rumour spread to drum up publicity for Survivors.

Chiwetel Ejiofor would have been fantastic. What's the betting he turned them down?

http://i39.tinypic.com/2zxml95.jpg

"Looks more like he belongs in SJA" I think they mean.

The thing is, the Doctor's kind of an asshole. It's hard for me to reconcile that aspect of his personality with Ejiofor.

(Though that could be a function of the roles I've seen him in more than his actual range.)

NicLOLe.

"He looks like a Sparklepire"

HAHAHAHA!

He does though, doesn't he? I think it's the hair.

I'm just very confused. What happened to the Marquis of Carabas? [walks away, scratching head]

I was just thinking about the cast of Party Animals the other day. They all leaped straight into something high profile - Andrew Buchan got Cranford and the Fixer, Shelley Conn starred in Mistresses and The Palace, Andrea Riseborough was in The Devil's Whore and the Thatcher biopic. The only lead I hadn't seen anywhere else (apart from an Arcade Fire gig, which doesn't really count) was Matt Smith, and I felt a bit sorry for him - there's always one alumnus from an ensemble show that doesn't do as well as the others. Obviously he didn't need my sympathy after all. Does this make Party Animals the most prophetically well-cast flop show since Freaks and Geeks?

it was a bullshit show though. f&g is classic material.

The singer Lily Allen is an early favourite, while sources say Strictly Come Dancing stars Rachel Stevens and Kelly Brook are high on the BBC's wish-list.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4108697/Search-for-new-Doctor-Whos-partner-begins.html

lawl agnes dean.

Do these people who keep linking Lily Allen to further TV work appreciate that she has the worst fucking speaking voice in the world?

oh my agyness deyn as sidekick and even I'd watch this trash

It would make a change to root for the monsters, yes.

There was a post on a recent FT thread calling for the return of the "take me home you bastard!" companion, which would at least be a nice change.

xpost. I liked Party Animals a lot but that's not the point - I just mean that the cast's subsequent strike rate is remarkable given the show's ratings. I was told that a lot of TV insiders loved the show so that might explain it.

They've just picked those companion casting suggestions out of a flick through London Lite, haven't they? My money's on Samantha Ronson.

xp Bruno Garcia? Lovely.

SOMEONE TERRIBLY EXCITING LIKE BILLIE PIPER

I think The Doctor should go back for Cribbins.

Georgina Baillie

haha I don't think Agy can act.

perhaps he could have a MALE companion omg.

I don't know who he is and I don't like the look of him

that's okay, you don't watch this show

it is pony to be fair.

I'd quite like an old-fashioned two or three-companion entourage, possibly with a robot or an alien in there.

BRING BACK KAMELION

I'd quite like an old-fashioned two or three-companion entourage

yes altho this is probably harder to make work when most episodes are standalone and not split into more parts like with the old series

Actually, school prefect dr with a Cribbins companion would be awesome.

^ Yeah it would be great :(

why would you want Cribbins? great at bulldog-spirit moralising and but useless in 'run away very quickly' situations.

Agyness is like the Katy Perry of fashion.

why would you want Cribbins? great at bulldog-spirit moralising and but useless in 'run away very quickly' situations.

Slightly fewer "run away very quickly" situations would be great, no?

(Well, not when there would be even more "new unmentioned use of sonic screwdriver saves the day" / "oh, look at this thing I had in my pocket all along which will inexplicably make all the enemies fall over" situations instead, no. But hoping for less of all three with Moffatt.)

I hope we get a non-contemporary-Earth companion for once. Or they should go back to Tom Baker's ideas for companions, which were:

1. a mad old nearly blind woman who has no idea that everyone she meets is a dangerous alien, and who beats people up with an umbrella, and
2. an intelligent talking cabbage which sits on the Doctor's shoulder and gives him advice.

Davison had the celery...

Slightly fewer "run away very quickly" situations would be great, no?

true, but slightly fewer would still be too many for the old giffer

he could do some excellent cowering though

Or he could just buy a supercharged segway.