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

does this mean it won't be shit anymore?

SM must go!

Watch Saturday's episode be k-lame now.

according to one blogger, Moffat will install Richard Coyle as the Doc and Gina Bellman as The Rani with the two pairing up at the end of s5 to the tune of 'Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps'

Which considering it was by the guy who wrote The Shakespeare Code is saying something.

Hahaha that's hilarious. The Christie episode was a lot of excitement and fun, and the whole time I was thinking "this is a million times better for a famous author romp than that Shakespeare & Martha flirtathon embarrassment."

That wipe transition, though...kept getting Wayne's World flashbacks. I know it was for the laughs, though.

John told me on some other forum a bunch of Americans were like "dude why was this ep so fucking queer" etc etc, and...it wasn't? What is the deal with the problems and minor offences of some of my fellow humans?

Bafta-winning Writer Steven Moffat will succeed Davies as lead writer and executive producer of the fifth series of Doctor Who.

News full of win!

It seems a bit ridic that in an episode with both mild gay flirtation and A WOMAN FUCKING A SPACE WASP it's the gays that are getting the tongue-wagging.

So if RTD is stepping down, does that mean Tennant's leaving after the specials as well? I heard somewhere that Davies wasn't planning on leaving until he did.

I'm so worried how they'll deal with the # of timelord regenerations. Will they find a loophole? I don't want the show to stop bcz they had to recycle actors too often.

If anyone can fanwank the regeneration problem convincingly, it would be Steven Moffat.

YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES.

(to the news)

because Davies has nothing more to give to the show. He's done brilliant things and now it's time to hand it on.

Tennant's obviously going soon too.

Yeah I think it'll be goodbye Rusty, goodbye Tennant, then a mini reboot. I will miss Tennant quite a bit now.

I thought we knew RTD was going from ages back, just didn't know who his replacement would be? Anyway, this'll be great, frankly Rusty can do whatever ludicrous bombastic shit he wants for the season finale now because we know it's in safe hands.

DAVROS

(I don't know anything, just hoping)

Davros but played by Alan Carr

DON'T GIVE FNP ANY IDEAS

"I don't know anything, just hoping"

Well they're going to do Daleks because they ALWAYS do Daleks, so they might as well bring back Davros, the only character which made the Daleks enjoyable or even bearable.

I'm sorry if I inadvertently hit on some season-end megasecret.

(which btw I've been avoiding with considerable force)

Moffat said: "I applied before but I got knocked back 'cos the BBC wanted someone else. Also I was seven."

<3 this guy

I'm so worried how they'll deal with the # of timelord regenerations. Will they find a loophole? I don't want the show to stop bcz they had to recycle actors too often.

Unlikely. Original series Master ran out of regenerations at least once, and he kept on coming back. They'll probably just say, "Well, with all the other Time Lords dead, all the regeneration energy went into the Doctor, and he'll live forever!" or some such shenanigans.

I reckoned as much, but the idea still scared me! Also lol Master.

Davies has been cantankerous all year so it doesn't surprise me that he's standing down.

If whasherface from Jekyll was just in an ep, does that mean we can have gina bellman and michelle ryan in, like, _several_ episodes when the new guy takes over?

pretty please?

I have heard who Moffat wants for his next Doctor, but as its two years away, it may or may not work. I can give you a hint, its someone he has worked with before - but not on Jekyll (or the Greek version of Coupling).

They have black curly hair.

Julia Sawalalawala!

Richard Coyle?

urgh alan davies, no

It's not going to be Dexter Fletcher, shut up Pete.

Fiona Gillies! Great choice, very pleased.

Nope, himself:
http://www.thestage.co.uk/images/pics/20759.jpg

na.jpg

that terrible bloke that took over from Richard Coyle in Coupling?

no he'll take on the role of the Doctor AFTER Coyle, obv

One hundred years ago, the universe's greatest library was sealed off, leaving only one warning: "Count the shadows". But now, the shadows are moving again. As Russell T Davies's Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama continues, the Doctor and Donna must uncover the terrible truth behind the Nodes and the horrifying Data Ghost, to find the library's secret.

Data Ghost!

http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/eightieszone/Rentaghost3.jpg

don't go into the server room

DATA GHOST

This could go either way.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/monsters2/images/340/happinesspatrol.jpg

i thought The Happiness Patrol was amazing at the time, apart from the Doctor's spoon jam

I thought every McCoy story was amazing at the time, I was nine.

maybe you were right

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1879/careymulligan01afd8.jpg

Dear Moffatt please make this girl a companion okthxbye.

If the rumours of Warreen Ellis writing are true, I'd fear for Sally to turn into a chain-smoking goth. With a bluetooth implant...

Warren Ellis? Oh, fuck, no! He'll make the Doctor a chain-smoking arsehole with a bluetooth implant who talks exactly like an idealised Warren Ellis (and every Warren Ellis hero EVER).

Neil Gaiman could write a good Who or two I reckon. Better than Ellis certainly, it's not really his style at all.