Gerald Wright to take his destined place.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
Has to be a woman this time.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
the spectacular casting that would be olivia colman v a young spunky man to boost ratings
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 30 January 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link
Ruth Wilson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Salmon, Chris O'Dowd, Richard Armitage, Jonathan Pryce
― potential grizzly (remy bean), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
<3 Richard Armitage <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
― jane burkini (suzy), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
Mark Gatiss... joking!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
@ vegemite girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdphoa0JtKc
― potential grizzly (remy bean), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
looool omg the fanservice production values are hilar
but <3 <3
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 January 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
he's a bit short to be the doctor tho maybe
Chibnall to take over the lead role, his time has truly come
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
look at his natural camera-ready charisma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIqTPQqgvQ
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 01:45 (seven years ago) link
Colin Morgan
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:10 (seven years ago) link
Since it was rumoured quite strongly last time, let's go Zawe Ashton again (love the suggestion of Kristin Scott Thomas though).
― ailsa, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:17 (seven years ago) link
Vinnie Jones.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:20 (seven years ago) link
Julia Sawalha
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:21 (seven years ago) link
would still love to see paterson joseph do it, but he's probably 26 too years old for what the bbc's bean counters are hoping for
xp julia sawalha sold me on her whoness after seeing what she pulled off in jonathan creek
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Saffron vs Eddy was always a Who plot in disguise
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
I totally misread "whoness" and thought you'd lost your mind, AA.
― Virginia Worf (Leee), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link
oh shit, that won't do at all
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
in what way? i'm trying and failing to see this
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:34 (seven years ago) link
one of them couldn't care less about the fate of the planet and the other one is appalled
http://i.imgur.com/6wCiAzn.jpg?1
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:42 (seven years ago) link
granted I'm just making shit up as I go and haven't watched any ab fab in about 15 years
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:44 (seven years ago) link
ha fair enough
btw by coincidence joanna lumley (patsy) played the doctor once
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:44 (seven years ago) link
http://www.deletionscifi.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Lumley-and-Saffy-2.png
l-r: the doctor, the doctor's assistant
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 03:45 (seven years ago) link
please be grumpy cat
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 05:21 (seven years ago) link
I am cynically supposing that the new companion means they won't be feeling any need for anyone who is anything other than old, white and male.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 08:01 (seven years ago) link
Richard Ayoade would be an interesting choice, but as he's signed up to the Crystal Maze I guess that ship has sailed.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 08:11 (seven years ago) link
ayoade is too well known and too good at other things imo
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 08:37 (seven years ago) link
capaldi is excellent at saying "fuck"
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 08:51 (seven years ago) link
sandi toksvig
― massaman gai, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 08:51 (seven years ago) link
Well I predict every role on British television will be played by Olivia Coleman by the end of the year, so this may be not far off.
― chap, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 09:29 (seven years ago) link
Michaela Coel
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 09:39 (seven years ago) link
she would be great!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 09:55 (seven years ago) link
xp to chap: she's already been in doctor who as someone else, which means she's definitely in the running
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 09:58 (seven years ago) link
Nina Sosanya, as payback for Fear Her (and she's great)
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 09:59 (seven years ago) link
yesss
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:01 (seven years ago) link
Good at comedy, great hair, excellent "fuck off and die" expression, that's basically all you need for a Doctor
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:07 (seven years ago) link
Jonathan Pryce would be incredible but he'd make an even better Master.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:29 (seven years ago) link
well
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Master_(The_Curse_of_Fatal_Death)
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:31 (seven years ago) link
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/8/8a/Master(CurseOfFatalDeath).jpg
Elizabeth Sladen would be amazing casting, but that's a moot point. I want a thirteenth capable of playing malice and sarcasm. My favorite doctors (T. Baker, Ecc, Pertwee, the glimpse of John Hurt, even Tennant in his best moments) are most capable of playing nasty and hard-edged. They're arrogant and brought to compassion by the influence of their companions. The whackier incarnations (Davison, C. Baker, McCoy, Smith, much of Capaldi) don't do as much for me.
― potential grizzly (remy bean), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:41 (seven years ago) link
Elizabeth Sladen would be amazing casting, but that's a moot point.
Moot doesn't really cover it, she's dead.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:43 (seven years ago) link
It's quite a challop to claim that Peter Capaldi isn't particularly capable of playing nasty and malicious!
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:50 (seven years ago) link
otm, he makes pertwee look like wet lettuce in that regard
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:51 (seven years ago) link
Is it? It wasn't mean to be –– his performance reads to me churlish and tongue-in-cheek rather than outright nasty. It always feels to me as if Moffat, et al. were afraid to let him truly off the leash. I'm not saying he should've played the Doctor as Malcolm Tucker, but a step in that direction might've been invigorating. As is, he was kind of lovable crank; a grandpa who'll snarl and then triple-pay you for mowing the lawn.
― potential grizzly (remy bean), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:56 (seven years ago) link
I preferred Capaldi's weirdo, emotionally unavailable take in his first season vs. Cool uncle in the 2nd. But splitting hairs.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 11:02 (seven years ago) link
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