Posted on 01/03/2009 10:40:45 AM PST by Molnar
The BBC today announced that Matt Smith has been cast in the role of the Doctor in the iconic BBC series Doctor Who. Smith will be the eleventh Time Lord and will take over from David Tennant who leaves the show at the end of 2009. He will be seen in the forthcoming fifth series that will be broadcast in 2010.
The fifth series will also have a new lead writer and Executive Producer in the form of the BAFTA award winning writer Steven Moffat who is taking over from Russell T Davies. Moffat will be joined by Piers Wenger who will be the new Executive Producer for BBC Wales making the show.
Following David Tennant's decision to step down at the end of 2009, the team behind the new series set about casting the new Doctor so that new adventures could be created and scripts written with Matt in mind.
The identity of the new Doctor was revealed on a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential that was broadcast on BBC One on January 3rd at 17.35hrs. In it Smith revealed his initial reaction at taking on such a legendary role and his thoughts on what direction the Doctor might now be going with him playing the part.
Matt Smith said of his new role "I'm just so excited about the journey that is in front of me. It's a wonderful privilege and challenge that I hope I will thrive on. I feel proud and honoured to have been given this opportunity to join a team of people that has worked so tirelessly to make the show so thrilling.
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I don’t know—so much is in the voice. I watched the BBC interview with him, and he has a very distinctive voice. His mannerisms are quite animated! I think he’ll do well. I also love that his experience in big productions is minimal—this could be very interesting!
I felt the same way until the “modern” Doctor Who started on the BBC in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston and later David Tennant. Much of it is literate science fiction at the highest level.
It owns the dramatic-presentation Hugo award every year. The third-season episode that took place in a society where everyone is born and lives their entire lives in one enormous, unmoving traffic jam, is as good as any written science fiction published in the last 20 years.
Wikipedia says 30
I loved Blakes7. One of my fondested quotes from the show was the episode where the men were fighting the women. It went something like this.
“You can have war between races, religions and brothers, but when you have war between the sexes, you eventually run out of people.”
Wish I could remember the exact quote, but it stuck in my mind.
We'll see if Smith can make his own mark on the series.
so when are we getting new episodes?????
Go to the public library and request the video "Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death".
Absolutely hysterical, featuring Rowan Atkinson as the Ninth Doctor and Jonathan Pryce as The Master. There are other people in it, but if I told you who, I'd ruin some of the fun. Really.
Okay, he's got some work ahead of him if he's going to pull this off.
And to think that folks wanted Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy, who was a villain of a previous episode). Geez, was this guy even alive when Buffy was on the air?? (don't answer -- rhetorical)
He is NO Peter Cushing.
Ping
I have a problem with the accents sometimes when they talk fast, talk over each other or there's loud background music or sound effects. (Yeah, that's probably most of the time.)
Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to purée of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I’ll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
Harlan Ellison
It is on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xkZhAtjT8U
I am a fan of Harlan, and will agree with him on that very point. Nevertheless, Star Wars still trounces Lord of the Rings, and Kirk will ALWAYS be better than Eurotrash Picard...
yes the very same Harlan Ellison who prostituted himself to Roddenberry writting Star Trek episodes and wound up with a dose of Herpes.
Please.......you can't be serious.
....and Kirk will ALWAYS be better than Eurotrash Picard...
What can you expect, Picard is French Eurotrash
Heck, if they portrayed Picard today, he probably be a French Muzzie
my favorite ST series is Enterprise and my favorite episodes are Carbon Creek and Through a Mirror Darkly.
Enterprise had the distinction of not having the Woosy Prime Directive.
(the worst ST series without a doubt is Voyager with the exception of the presence of ‘7 of 9’, or ‘Rack of 9’ as I like to call her)
Star Wars 4,5 and 6 rule....with 4 & 5 being the best and 6 being a bit pathetic with those annoying little Ewoks.
Star Wars 1 bites the big brasciole. 2 is ok and 3 is pretty good.
LOTR: A bunch of (expletive) dwarves WALKING AND WALKING AND WALKING to a mountain! I would rather have a reverse circumcision than have to sit through the Rings trilogy ever again.
Okay, now Harlan Ellison is now exactly a disinterested party when it comes to making pronouncements like this one!
;-)
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