Doctor Who

[Ant]

Holy crap on a cracker

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/01/huge-doctor-who-news-coming-tonight-and-heres-what-we-think-it-is/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Thats come out of nowhere...

[Colly]

There's been murmurings of him leaving for a whole, one more series sounds about right. I like press releases, can't wait!

[Ant]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/10093520/Matt-Smith-to-quit-Doctor-Who-after-Christmas-special.html

Its official. Leaving after the Xmas special.

[Benji]

Unsurprising. Hopefully they don't stick with Clara, or the new Doctor is going to be hamstrung from the start.

[Colly]

How so?

Also, Damien Lewis or David Tennant returning hint at 'the Telegraph don't have a fucking clue' to me.

[Benji]

By the fact she's shit.

[Ant]

Stephen Mangan as The Doctor?

[Colly]

By the fact she's shit.

Mean. :/

[Vamp]

Pretty gutted about this. He's been pretty great, and at times when the material's been a little off for whatever reason he's carried on knocking it out of the park. But its been obvious for a while now that he's kinda surpassed the show, I don't really mean that as a knock to the show, but he's become so great, started getting the movie attention, its been coming. Let the speculation begin. How long will the rumours last that the new Doctor is John Hurt before they announce another relative unknown?

[E-C-Bub]

Bring on Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, or either one of the Weasley Twins for #12!

[9 to 5]

Next Doctor? That is easy...

[Vamp]

The BBC News Reporter speculated on Judi Dench. Yup.

And Olivia Coleman who's name is going to come up a hell of a lot in the next few months.

[Skummy]

I would absolutely love it to be Stephen Mangan.

Chances are it'll be a relative unknown, so there's very little point in speculating. I'll be sad to see Matt go, though.

[Chief87]

Might be a bit more saddened about this than Tennant leaving, still alot of milage left in Smiths character. I can see why he wants to move on though, has made a star of himself really.

[GhostMachine]

The next Doctor should be one of these actors:

Robert Carlyle

Hugh Laurie (with Stephen Fry as The Master)

Idris Elba

Adrian Lester

Stephen Fry (with Hugh Laurie as The Master)

Tom Baker

John Simm with a crewcut and a goatee

John Barrowman with muttonchops and a mullet

David Morrissey with a mustache and his head shaved

Larry The Cable Guy

Edited June 2, 2013 by GhostMachine

[Colly]

Dave Benson-Phillips.

[Vamp]

I tend to think of Hugh Laurie as a great missed Doctor actually. Not for him, obviously, he had more success with House, but I'd have loved to have seen have him as Doctor Who too.

John Hurt being in the anniversary tends to make me think it won't be an older actor taking over Smith, although really that's silly because it still could easily be. I. wonder how long till they announce who ever they've cast. I guess it'll depend when they start getting ready for the next series more than anything.

[Hobo]

Dylan Moran should be the next Doctor, playing him as Bernard Black in space.

[Benji]

Are they leather bound Daleks?

[Skummy]

As ever, the "first black Doctor" and "first female Doctor" rumours are abounding. I doubt we'll see either, though I'd rather a black Doctor than a female one. The Doctor being black wouldn't need to be addressed at all, really, while the Doctor being female would creative a whole bunch of narrative bollocks - you'd pretty much get a very Moffat story arc just out of that, I'm sure, and I'd much rather our next Doctor just gets to have a nice fun series with no real impending doom or unanswerable questions hanging over it.

On the topic of black Doctors, Idris Elba's name has been mentioned - I could definitely get behind that. I'd be happy with David Harewood, though he may be a little too old. That said, I'm hoping they go with a slightly older Doctor again now anyway.

Mangan is actually my favourite possibility now, though as I said, I fully expect it to be someone I've never heard of, and that's ideal. You don't want the Doctor to be "that guy out of that thing". You don't want to be distracted by it being a recognisable TV star as the Doctor, you want him to be the Doctor.