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  • #11587
    ScaryB @scaryb

    @timeloop

    No rules on number of years, depends on a lot of factors, mostly external. eg the actor getting lucrative offers elsewhere or just feeling they’ve done as much as they can with the character.

    Oh, and my sympathies to all of you for whom this is the first regeneration – it’s always a toughie

    #11598
    overunder @jamesunderscore

    Such bittersweet news.  Sad because I think Matt has been my favorite doctor, but exciting because now we’ll get to see him doing other things, which is always good, and we get a new doctor, and SIX MONTHS of bonkers theorising over who it’s gonna be, and how it’s gonna happen so we’ll have plenty to talk about!

    #11602
    Anonymous @
    #11608
    ScaryB @scaryb

    Thanks for the link @Shazzbot

    The Telegraph are doing well – they’ve also got this really nice tribute article about Matt  (Just don’t read the comments! Makes the G commenters look like ickle kittens!)

    #11620
    Timeloop @timeloop

    @scaryb Yeah I was not too serious about that. But of of them stayed 3 years, right?

    Not my first regeneration to watch but a regeneration I would have hoped to be later rather than sooner. Turns out the speculation that he would not stay much longer because he has reached everything he could reach is sadly true.

    #11628
    ScaryB @scaryb

    @timeloop I think most of us on here would rather he’d stayed longer. Even @htpbdet was considering an S!!

    #11642
    thommck @thommck

    Was a bit cross when I saw @craig post this news about Matt, I’d rather not have known. Then this morning I heard it on the radio, saw it on the newspaper front pages even my wife said she knew from her Facebook! So pretty unavoidable I guess.

    I felt with Amy out of the picture we were finally seeing Matt as THE DOCTOR even though he was channeling past regenerations half the time.

    I guess the obvious choice is John Hurt but he’ll be to expensive, maybe Clara but that is too timey wimey, so someone new. A regeneration is always epic no matter what actually happens so it will be great to watch 🙂

    #11643
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    Dick n Dom’s Delia Derbyshire show is on CBBC now!

    #11661
    wolfweed @wolfweed
    #11700
    Craig @craig
    Emperor

    @thommck I have the unfortunate position of possibly, occasionally, facing the wrath of some members. I’m sorry I made you a bit cross, but I made sure it was all over the mainstream news before I posted. I would never post spoilers here (in the sense of something that is not mainstream news and is avoidable).

    And as you discovered, it was big news!

    #11881
    Anonymous @

    Hi everybody, tomorrow We have the Launch of Doctor Who Series 7 in Italy!!!
    You can follow the channel Rai4 on Twitter : https://twitter.com/RaiQuattro
    And using all day the hashtag #DoctorWho 

    fixed

    #11894
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    New toy ad preview…

    #11896
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    #11901
    Anonymous @

    @wolfweed – that Clara figurine certainly has had a few pie ‘n chips since filming her series, hasn’t she? 🙂

    #12027
    chickenelly @chickenelly

    Short news story on JLC’s reaction to Matt’s departure: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22813229

    #12079
    chickenelly @chickenelly
    #12080
    Anonymous @

    @chickenelly — I quite like Rory Kinnear but I just can’t see him as the Doctor somehow. Maybe it’s just his general slap-headedness. It always seems to me that at least one criterion for being the Doctor is to have a fairly luxuriant head of hair…

    #12081
    chickenelly @chickenelly

    @jimthefish

    I like Rory Kinnear too, but I’m not sure if he’s got the ‘leading man’ quality that the last two Doctors had.

    After the floppy-fringedness of Matt, a slap-headed Doctor would be a change.  I’d still go for Toby Jones though, but he’s probably too busy.

    #12082
    ScaryB @scaryb

    I keep mis-reading Rory Kinnear as Roy Kinnear… it’s very offputting!

    #12083
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    I really rate Rory Kinnear as an actor – but he doesn’t read ‘the Doctor’ to me. Now John Hurt – he was an immediate ‘oh, yes, definitely’ reaction.

    Of course, other possibilities include the reporter making it up or the start of a BBC disinformation campaign.

    #12084
    ScaryB @scaryb

    @bluesqueakpip

    other possibilities include the reporter making it up… BBC disinformation campaign

    😯

    Surely not….?!

    John Hurt is 1 of the stand out actors of his generation IMHO. I was bowled over when I realised it was the same actor in I Claudius (Calligula (definitely “not in the name of the Dr”!)), Naked Civil Servant, Alien and Elephant Man.  I would happily watch him in anything!

    His one scene in NotD nailed it in a line and not just cos you’re thinking “that’s John Hurt!!!!

    <wishing really REALLY HARD that his notDr reforms somehow and is brought back into the fold to be the Dr properly>

     

    #12090
    Whisht @whisht

    I’m with @scaryb – I keep thinking “wouldn’t Roy Kinnear be a good idea…?”

    ;¬p

    In all honesty, I think he was always brilliant as the man-a-bit-out-of-his-depth (in pretty much everything he did). Equally scheming and small minded, but with massive amounts of sympathy. And I’d loved to have seen him bounce off Cribbens if he had had a role (and not sadly passed away obviously).

    Also agree, Hurt could read the phonebook and make me cry.
    I did have a moment of “Winston Smith” when he uttered the lines, but I will forgive anything.

    #12213
    wolfweed @wolfweed
    #12214
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    @$100 just for joy of owning this exclusive cover, most of us won’t be adding this IDW comic (vol 3 #9 Gamestop version) to our collections.

    Great art, though.
    idw ex

    Source: http://onegemini.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/im-back-on-doctor-whosorta.html

    #12215
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    Various Who aprons available here: http://mightymega.com/2013/06/12/doctor-who-4th-doctor-apron/
    apr
    Also, you can buy Brigadier T-Shirts from the BBC now. Whatever next? Brilliant, though.
    Okay, I’m going to stop now, as this is just turning into ‘Who – The Adverts’…

    #12217
    ScaryB @scaryb

    @wolfweed, love the ads. There’s a massive amount of Who merch out there at the moment, much of it so-so (anything coloured a vaguely Tardis shade of blue), but some of it’s amusing – like your aprons, and these Skarobucks mugs http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330934657032?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 (and no bidding till I’ve bought mine, LOL).

    LOL’d at Sun story – the wait proving too much for some people! (Going to wash now haha)

     

    #12219
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    @scaryb

    If you can imagine a Who product, it’s likely to already exist. Exhibit 3:
    pant

    Available to purchase from here:

    http://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/70172724/doctor-who-river-song-hello-sweetie?ref=market

    #12436
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    Jamie Payne (the director of ‘Hide’) is confirmed as the director of the 2013 Xmas Special.
    ms r

    #12498
    wolfweed @wolfweed
    #12504
    chickenelly @chickenelly

    Oh, please God no. Haven’t we suffered enough:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22937739

    #12535
    PhaseShift @phaseshift
    Time Lord

    For the sake of sanity, can we keep the next Doctor speculation stories to the Next Doctor thread?

    All comments have been moved to it.

    http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor/page/9/

    #12538
    chickenelly @chickenelly

    @phaseshift

    Oops, sorry.  Forgot all about that thread (distracted by Talons, etc).  However in mitigation technically it was a ‘news’ story although admittedly the source (The Sun) can only loosely described a newspaper.

    #12631
    wolfweed @wolfweed
    #12638
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    IDW vol 3 #10 cover revealed…
    idw 3 10

    #12689
    Craig @craig
    Emperor

    If you have a lot of spare cash you can bid on having tea with Matt Smith, all in the aid of 2 autism charities.

    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/s7/doctor-who/news/a491961/doctor-whos-matt-smith-auctions-ritz-afternoon-tea-date-for-charity.html

    #12714
    PhaseShift @phaseshift
    Time Lord

    The BBC have released a short video of Matt Smith thanking various people, including the fans for his time on the show.

    #12717
    Anonymous @

    Hi @phaseshift – I saw that earlier today.  What a nice hommage to Bob Dylan.  Although I did wonder about the lack of traffic on the street, until Matt explained that it was the morning after a night shift.

    (Only way it could be improved, is to have the guys in the background in the Dylan video looking the same way here ‘You expect me to clean this sh*t up?!’  🙂 )

    #12732
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    @phaseshift

    That warmed my cockles…

    m s m

    #12745
    ScaryB @scaryb

    If Matt had that haircut as the Dr they’d have been calling him “The Ears” rather than the Chin 😉 Nice vid tho

    #12905
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    Charlotte Moore to oversee Dr Who 50th celebrations.

    http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-06-26/charlotte-moore-confirmed-as-new-bbc1-boss

    Will we see the Doctor jump out of another cake, come November?

    #13028
    chickenelly @chickenelly
    #13030
    Anonymous @

    @chickenelly – while the whole show as described sounds delightful, this is the penultimate sentence of that article:

    The play is likely to be one of Smith’s last appearances as Doctor Who, as his character will regenerate in a TV Christmas special

    Oh, really?  Is that it then?  I thought it was still open for bonkers theorising(tm) whether the regeneration is part of the 50th or at Christmas.  Did I miss the memo?

    #13033
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    @Shazzbot – I suspect the reporter is simply going off Matt Smith’s frequent statements that he’s booked until the Christmas Special, and presuming that this means he’s regenerating in the said Christmas Special.

    Whereas I’m sure that, if we put our minds to it, we could come up with Ten Bonkers Theories about how Eleven could regenerate in the 50th but still be in the Christmas Special…

    #13034
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    Bonkers Theory One: Eleven is keeping a back up copy of himself in that fob watch he’s been (presumably) wearing since The Snowmen. He regenerates in the 50th – but the back-up copy plays a role in the Christmas Special in the same way River’s copy was an important character in The Name otD.

    #13049
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    The Dr Who Proms are on the 13th & 14th of July

    Notice in this ad it’s not the Smith TARDIS…

    #13056
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    @wolfweed – That could simply be a case of ‘Drat! Wrong CGI TARDIS!’

    That happened in Time of Angels, I believe.

    Alternatively, it could mean that Smith’s Doctor is no longer The-Doctor-in-the-TARDIS. His TARDIS is now dying on Trenzalore.

    #13057
    Anonymous @

    @wolfweed @bluesqueakpip – how on earth did you see the difference in the Tardis in that clip?!  Was it the lack of a broken upper window?  From wolfweed’s original comment, I was expecting an interior shot.

    #13058
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    @Shazzbot – the St John’s insignia is missing.

    #13115
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    #13116
    wolfweed @wolfweed

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