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

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.

His assistant was called ROSITA. Which is a bit like ROSE.

Great start!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=oujixU2yLlA

Tom Baker hosting "Have I Got News for You"

LOVED that episode! the young guy who was on "the thick of it" was such a twat

I listened to "The One Doctor" last week, and basically there's one big idea from it which the Christmas Special looks set to steal, but the rest of it was insane weirdy comedy (Adam Buxton as a furniture manufacturing robot, Matt Lucas as a lonely giant jelly waiting for a TV to be delivered, CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS, etc) which wouldn't possibly work in a) the main TV show, or b) Victorian England. So I'm guessing the Christmas ep isn't going to be hugely predictable really, outside of its basic concept.

A bit here with Jamie Bamber talking about why he could never accept the role, and more linkage to Rich Johnston talking about Paterson Joseph accepting the job and getting a new console, too.

Aldo, do you know if this is for real or not, or just more smoke?

That would be fantastic.

I'm not clear on what's going on, exactly...after this xmas special, is David Tennant gone from the show? If there's a new doctor does it mean that we don't have to wait a year for the next series?

They're doing a Christmas Special, and then 4 more 'specials' spaced out over the coming year and into 2010... and then Tennant turns in his sonic screwdriver.

Then Moffat jumps on board (I think he co-writes 2 of the 'specials' with RTD), and then (apparently) away we go with the Marquis De Carabas as our new Doctor!

Excited if Paterson Joseph IS the new Doctor. He was excellent in Neverwhere.

As long as he isn't related to Elly Patterson, I'm happy.

JOHNSON IS GOING TO BE THE DOCTOR?

Big Suze for companion

Super Hans as the Master.

Kingfish,

AFAIK this is as real as it gets, or else represents a WHOLE new level of disinformation out of Upper Boat and would make the Wiggy disinformation scandal look like a tiny little fib.

For those of us who remember Neverwhere being on in the Gap Years, the discussion at the time was that he would be a great Doctor. Well, that and how NG had ripped The Doctor off for the character.

Hang on, a quick dig reveals a photoshoot last week. Yeah, this is real.

Can't find that shoot. Link?

No pics out there, just confirmation it took place. Not a costumed thing, think the picture of David and Freema on the sofa where he was wearing that hideous shirt.

Wait they're already shooting for 2010? Sounds unlikely.

He was already in Who, mind? He was on the Weakest Link with Rose. I think I approve though.

Looking at the preview clip upthread, surely a future doctor who recognise a previous regeneration? Seems like an imposter to me.

No no, that's David Morrissey. Paterson Joseph is someone else entirely.

Matt, not shooting for 2010, photoshoot for the publicity for the announcement.

Anyway, I think he'll be good. Paterson does a top line in jitteriness and manic facial experessions. They need to get the voice right though - somewhere between Johnson and Tom Baker would do nicely.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/images/neverwhere04.jpg

Did anybody read the comic adaption?

I read the book, is that the same as the comic? Not one of Gaiman's best but pretty entertaining anyway.

and yeah Paterson Joseph is way Doctor-y in the BBC versh - it didn't really occur to me that the Marquis de Carabas was supposed to be a Doctor rip until I saw his performance.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9703/jekyllkilledanyonenj8.gif

ha James Nesbitt is not still in the running is he?

heh. This is from a Gaiman introduction to a Telos novella written in August of 2003:

...It’s probably a good thing that I’ve never actually got my hands on the Doctor. I would have unhappened so much.

A final Dr Who connection – again, from the baggy-trousered Troughton era, when some things were more than true for me – showed itself, in retrospect, in my BBC TV series, Neverwhere.

Not in the obvious places – the BBC decision that Neverwhere had to be shot on video, in episodes half an hour long, for example. Not even in the character of the Marquis de Carabas, who I wrote – and Paterson Joseph performed – as if I were creating a Doctor from scratch, and wanted to make him someone as mysterious, as unreliable, and as quirky as the William Hartnell incarnation. But in the idea that there are worlds under this one, and that London itself is magical, and dangerous, and that the underground tunnels are every bit as remote and mysterious and likely to contain Yeti as the distant Himalayas was something, author and critic Kim Newman pointed out to me, while Neverwhere was screening, that I probably took from a Troughton-era story called “The Web of Death”.

And as he said it, I knew he was spot on, remembering people with torches exploring the underground, beams breaking the darkness. The knowledge that there were worlds underneath... yes, that was where I got it, all right...

If this is true, I think the thing I'm most pleased about is that they haven't lazily gone for a pretty boy Tennant-alike.

PJ is super-pretty...and super talented. It's a win win! I'm enjoying this new trend of fiendishly handsome Doctors...

And here we are:

So, a dashing Pertwee type?

I hope he plays the Doctor closer to his performance in Survivors than Neverwhere. That's a bit too Rent-a-Ghost for me.
I they going to hurry up and announce that he's been cast, or what?

So the Children in Need thing was just the trailer we've already seen before, right?

I did find this:

haaaaa. watch the 2nd half of this one

http://sarahsilverman.comedycentral.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=211432

A behind-the-scenes thing where Christopher Eccleston stars as "Dr. Lazer Rage", and the show's director is seriously dorking out over having him on the show.

aaand a bit from that episode

Fuck me, the Christmas special doesn't actually air UNTIL Christmas?! But but but torrent speeds at my parents' house are horrible!

Anyway, now watching the last two eps of Sarah Jane. Having the Brigadier and his baritone around is always great, even in his older, checkered- and cabby cap-bedecked form. His appearances on the audios are well worth tracking down. The Sontaran actor in these ones isn't as much fun as Mike TheCoolGuy's sharper bluster but what are you gunna do. His sidearm looks like something you'd see attached to a Namco shooter in a video arcade.

We're going to have a dry spell of a long time, aren't we. The first of the specials isn't until Easter, right? Is the Sarah Jane show worth watching? Like, worth one's time more than shotgunning Torchwood?

just rewatched last year's christmas one. they always seem better after 2nd viewing.

Sarah Jane is lots of fun, but very much the kids' show (not that that's actually a fault): has something of the vibe of 1970s Pertwee stuff, with less political commentary and better effects.

or else represents a WHOLE new level of disinformation out of Upper Boat

Chiwetel Ejiofor? Really?