Doctor Who
- Steven Moffatt has definitely cast the next Doctor
- …and the TARDIS might be getting a redesign
- Sarah Jane Adventures get a third series
Awards
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- Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards
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- Star Trek trailer with added Nimoy
- Eddie Izzard and Brian Dennehy join Every Day
- Paul Schrader writing for Bollywood
- Trailer for Tony Gilroy's Duplicity
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British TV
- Steptoe drama never to be repeated following complaints
- Ben Shephard to host The Krypton Factor
- CBBC and CBeebies dramas
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- Frank Spotnitz working on NBC drama for Gabrielle Union
- Two pilots add cast
- Plans for an NCIS spin-off
- NBC's January line-up
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November 26, 2008 | Reply
Because I am quite perverse I would LOVE it if all the punters were wrong and it ISN'T Paterson Joseph, but the evidence does seem to be stacking up in his favour. As a viewer I'd genuinely like not to know till the very last minute. I hadn't seen David Tennant in anything apart from Harry Potter till I saw Dr Who and it was great not knowing anything about him. Whereas if it is Paterson Joseph I feel I'll know everything about him before he starts and it won't feel so fresh. OTOH the kids who haven't seen him in anything and after CiN are convinced the next Doctor is David Morrison probably won't care (once they've got over the loss of DT of course...)
November 26, 2008 | Reply
In stark contrast to Jane, I wish they would hurry up and announce that it's PJ, given that everybody already knows that it is (unless it is the all-time great cover up - but post "am I regenerating, no I'm not" I don't believe they will ever do that.) Point being: I am sick of all this Oh it's so exciting, nobody knows who it is rubbish. It's like having a tennis racket for Christmas, wrapped up in the shape of a tennis racket, and then having to pretend to be surprised. Oh for the Doctor to regenerate unexpectdly with no anouncement that the previous actor is leaving, a proper surprise Derek Jacobi is the Master moment, maybe my favourite single moment of the entire New Who so far.
November 26, 2008 | Reply
Sorry Marie, I probably didn't explain myself very well - when I say I don't want to know I mean that I don't want to even have any idea who it is, so yes, I'm with you on the tennis racket analogy. If it really is PJ it would be better to let us all know now (unless it's actually David Morrison and this is all a double bluff). I just would like to be surprised once in a while I guess. I think my husband must be the only Dr Who fan in the world who hasn't picked up Paterson Joseph is even a contender, but then he doesn't spend his spare time trawling through the internet like I do!
November 26, 2008 | Reply
Who on earth is this David Morrison you keep going on about, Jane?
November 26, 2008 | Reply
She means Morrissey, but I was going to let it slide.
November 26, 2008 | Reply
And by Morrissey I do of course mean David Morrissey, not the whining former Smiths front man.
November 26, 2008 | Reply
Well, you never know. There is an actor named David Morrison, and apart from being American, too young, and having appeared in next to nothing (I mean films, films!), he looks rather lovely and almost DT-ish...
November 26, 2008 | Reply
I think you have DT's before the eyes Persephone! (Not the DTs)
I'm one who WISHES that we knew nothing about casting for DW under Moffatt -- but unless I wish to go into blogging purgatory and lose contact with all my favourite online people I'm resigned to always knowing more than I want.
For those who didn't notice, the 'cliffhanger-that-wasn't' back in July nearly KILLED me. I still feel sick at how it affected me.
November 27, 2008 | Reply
Morrisey. Morrisey. That's the one. Sorry was typing with three children whining in my ear...
I think it would be very funny if it turned out that after all DT is leaving at Christmas and he'll regenerate into someone else entirely and he isn't doing the specials at all.
Ok. I know it's a pipe dream...