New Dr Who

[Doh_boy]

It looks promising, to me atleast.

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[Will]

Is there any hint who will be the new Doctor?

 

[Doh_boy]

Not that I can see, but from the looks of it they'll be going for someone like Tom Baker.

 

[RandomBastard]

Richard E Grant played him in there lastest webcast (voice of doctor who plus a characture style animation of him as the doctor) so maybe him? Be pretty funky if it was.

 

[MrBlack]

Hugh Grant was a consideration at one point.

I'd quite fancy Joanna Lumley in the job (She's played him in the Comic Relief thing, as did Hugh Grant, Richard E Grant and Jim Broadbent in quick succession)

My choice would have to be Simon Pegg, he'd be ace. Him or David Dixon (Ford Prefect in the TV Hitchhikers, who was essentially Doctor Who anyway)

 

[Mazling]

Yeah Ford Prefect from HHGTTG TV would do well - not a kind of "bleep bloop bleep *zzp*" kind of alien at all, just the kind of character that makes (you) humans look rather primitive and useless. (not hard)
Douglas Adams did in fact write a few episodes/stories for Doctor Who; Tom Baker's Doctor was rather like Ford ... come to think of it ...

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Last I read (somewhere oO) was that Eddie Izzard was up for the Doctor Who role Not a bad choice really considering the series usually had a strange campness to it, heh.

 

[Jonny_Darko]

Simon Pegg

What an unexpectedly excellent idea! They'd be unlikely to even think about someone so young but you're right, he would be excellent.

 

[yaruar]

Hugh Grant was a consideration at one point.

I'd quite fancy Joanna Lumley in the job (She's played him in the Comic Relief thing, as did Hugh Grant, Richard E Grant and Jim Broadbent in quick succession)

My choice would have to be Simon Pegg, he'd be ace. Him or David Dixon (Ford Prefect in the TV Hitchhikers, who was essentially Doctor Who anyway)

I thought you meant david dickinson for a second there.

Although that said he could make a great doctor who villan. Trying to mutate the world into a race of orange monsters for a price "cheap as chips"

 

[Will]

Maybe they could use James Marsters.

*hides*

 

[Will]

Or Jamie Oliver, as a work collegue suggested just now.

 

[Tom]

If they bring back Dr Who, then they'll start thinking about Blake's Seven, and all those other UTTERLY SHITE programs like 'The Tripods'. Please god no!

 

[xane]

If they bring back Dr Who, then they'll start thinking about Blake's Seven,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3102295.stm

 

[DaGaffer]

If they bring back Dr Who, then they'll start thinking about Blake's Seven, and all those other UTTERLY SHITE programs like 'The Tripods'. Please god no!

CJ Ravey, formerly of this parish, is involved with the Blake's Seven revival. I know the guy who's got the rights to it as well, I used to sit next to him at the Beeb.

 

[Tom]

Ask him if they need a sound recordist

 

[granny]

Or Jamie Oliver, as a work collegue suggested just now.

Only if in the first episode the Doctor (or "Wankor" as he'd quickly become known I suspect) got brutally bludgeoned to death by angry Cybermen with silver hammers.