Moderator's Note: This was moved from the 'Other Doctors' section:


And now we need one for the Tenth.

Did the BBC make a selection yet?

Apparently yes....

The actor who'll play the 10th Doctor is named as David Tennant.
His last major acting role was as the Young Casanova, in the Russell T Davies produced series about the life & times of Casanova, recently transmitted on BBC 1, after it's debut on the (Digital-only) Channel BBC Three...
Also, he had a part in the "live" Quatermass reenactment of the Quatermass Experiment, recently shown on BBC Four...

This is the BBC press release:

David Tennant confirmed as the tenth Doctor Who

David Tennant is confirmed as the tenth Doctor Who, it was announced today by Jane Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, following the recommissioning of the second series.

Tennant, whose recent credits include BBC THREE's critically-acclaimed drama series Casanova, BBC ONE's Blackpool and He Knew He Was Right, will star alongside Billie Piper who returns as Rose Tyler.

Julie Gardner, BBC Head of Drama, Wales says: "Christopher Eccleston has given an exceptional performance as the ninth Doctor.

"David Tennant is a great actor who will build on the excellent work already done by Christopher in establishing Doctor Who for a new generation."

David Tennant says: "I am delighted, excited and honoured to be the tenth Doctor!

"I grew up loving Doctor Who and it has been a lifelong dream to get my very own TARDIS.

"Russell T Davies is one of the best writers television has ever had, and I'm chuffed to bits to get the opportunity to work with him again.

"I'm also really looking forward to working with Billie Piper who is so great as Rose.

"Taking over from Chris is a daunting prospect; he has done a fantastic job of reinventing the Doctor for a new generation and is a very tough act to follow."

Executive producer/writer Russell T Davies adds: "Christopher Eccelston's wonderful Doctor has reinvented the role, so that it now appeals to the best actors in the land.

"I'm already writing David's first new adventure on board the TARDIS!

"Regeneration is a huge part of the programme's mythology, and I'm delighted that new, young viewers can now have the complete Doctor Who experience, as they witness their hero change his face!"

A new 13-part adventure and Christmas special begins filming in Cardiff in the summer for transmission on BBC ONE.

And few bio details, from Outpost Gallifrey:

Some biographical information on David Tennant, the tenth Doctor Who: Born in West Lothian, Tennant is a respected classical actor who trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He began his career on the stage, performing as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including such roles as Touchstone in "As You Like It", Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet", Antipholus of Syracuse in "The Comedy of Errors" and Captain Jack Absolute in "The Rivals", and performing in such venues as the Yourng Vic, the Edinburgh Lyceum, the 7:84 theatre company and Dundee Rep. Tennant was was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for "Best Actor of 2002" for his performance in "Lobby Hero" at the Donmar Warehouse and the New Ambassador's Theatres.

Tennant's connections with the Doctor Who genre are extensive. A fan of the program, he hosted "Doctor Who: A New Dimension," the special preview documentary aired prior to the first episode of the new series on BBC1. He also played the role of the Caretaker in BBC Online's animated serial "The Scream of the Shalka" and has appeared in a variety of audio programs for Big Finish Productions, including as Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood in "Sympathy for the Devil," as Galanar in the "Dalek Empire III" series, as Daft Jamie in "Medicinal Purposes" as well as in "Colditz" and "Exile". Tennant also portrays the title role in Big Finish's audio adaptation of Bryan Talbot's "Luther Arkwright" series.

Among his many film and television experiences include roles in "Jude," "Duck Patrol," "Love in the 21st Century," "Bright Young Things," "The Deputy," "Bite," "The Last September," "Blackpool," "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)," "The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries," "Holding the Baby," "Posh Nosh," "Being Considered" and "L.A. Without a Map." He recently starred in the title role in BBC3's miniseries "Casanova" alongside Peter O'Toole, and as Briscoe in the BBC special live broadcast event "The Quatermass Experiment." He recently completed filming on "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," playing the role of Barty Crouch Jr.

"I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories," Tennant said about his longing to become an actor. "Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do." On how theatrical training has helped his career: "Drama school is a pretty intense experience and I think it changes who you are. I think I grew up at drama school (which was fairly useful personally as much as professionally) and I certainly got exposed to a huge range of ideas, techniques and practices that I had no previous experience of. I wouldn't have known what I was doing as an actor if I hadn't gone."

It's taken ten Doctors but this is the first one cast who is younger than me. I feel so old...

Yeah, if you're more than 900 that's VERY OLD INDEED.

Moderator's Note: This is Mike's original Tennant summary:

Christopher Eccleston's leather jacket is not even cold (let alone vacated), but we've got our 10th Doctor. Will he be able to maintain the momentum of the mighty Mr. E? Tune in this Xmas and find out!



This is me, swanning off...

I will, of course, do my level best to love, worship, and adore David Tennant as he no doubt so richly deserves (he has a big nose, which is a promising sign, and he plays a good Casanova, which is somewhat less promising) but at the moment I'm more concerned about ripping that Judas-Messiah Eccleston into tiny little pieces with my bare hands.

To quote Moe of "The Simpsons", you're kinda all over the place here, Homer. I know your loss of CE is recent, but you gotta let go.

I think for the regneration scene, Eccleston should meet Emily.

Having seen David in Takin’ Over The Asylum many years ago, I was already aware that he’s a darned good actor. Seeing him recently in Casanova reinforced that view. Provided Russell T gives him a good character, I think he’ll do a really good job. I’m more concerned about his age, particularly in relation to Rose. The emotional relationship between Rose and CE’s Doctor just about works because he’s older than her – for me, DT’s Doctor running hand in hand with Rose just wouldn’t look right.

There wasn't much of an age gap between the 5th Doctor & companions either.

In appearance. But he was still in reality 900 years older than them

I wonder if they're going to have a story where the Doctor ends up in Casanova's time and people keep mistaking him for Casanova.

And on a related note you might enjoy this cartoon by The Whovian Observer.

you're kinda all over the place here, Homer. I know your loss of CE is recent, but you gotta let go.

Mike, be honest here, and don't think about sparing my feelings. In the...what...six-and-a-half-years we've known each other, have I ever struck you as the kind of person to turn the other cheek? Forgive anyone in a Christ-like act of benevolence? Just FORGET when some Silurian-loving sonuvadalek swans into my life, gets me to BETRAY Tom Baker by falling madly in love* with HIS Doctor - and then WALKS OUT ON ME, not to mention a few million other fans, ONE WEEK LATER? Not caring if this SABOTAGES humanity's greatest achievement, viz, the stunningly successful revival of Doctor Who?

*In an ENTIRELY platonic way, obviously.

I think for the regneration scene, Eccleston should meet Emily.

An excellent idea. Of course, he wouldn't exactly be available for audios, conventions, etc afterwards (and things might get tricky if they want to film more than one take) but, let's face it, the big-eared Trekkie-lover probably wouldn't condescend to appear in audios or conventions anyway.

Provided Russell T gives him a good character, I think he'll do a really good job.

Yeah, but what character will he have! Yet another problem with these so-called Doctors dropping like particularly wimpish flies is that they'll soon run out of ways to portray the Doc as completely-original-but-really-the-same. Not that I don't trust Russell T God (at least HE didn't betray me before the •••• crowed thrice) to come up with a brilliant new Doctor, but...don't want new Doctor! WANT NINTH DOCTOR!

There wasn't much of an age gap between the 5th Doctor & companions either.

Yeah, but there were also strict rules about Davison not being able to touch any of his Companions (the female ones, anyway, surely even the dirtiest-minded pervert wouldn't have read anything into him having physical contact with Adric).

Emily - I'm shocked! You might regret CE's departure but calling him a 'Trekkie-lover' is going too far!

Though certainly with those ears, he might be mistaken for one.

Tell me - did I see David Tennant in the Labour Party Election Broadcast this evening? I wasn't sure if it was him.

Didn't see Casanova, y'see...

According to gallifreyone.com, yes, you did, along with Patrick Stewart.

Is that good or bad? Whose side is who? (No pun intended)

It would appear that Dr Who (the tenth) and Captain Picard support Tony Blair...

The election is today, so we don't know whether he will still be Prime Minister tomorrow. (But probably, hopefully, he will be...)

HOPEFULLY? I was SHOCKED to hear that a DOCTOR was supporting that warmongering invador. This is like The Macra Terror all over again...

Well Patrick Stewart's from Yorkshire, I mean we are all genetically programmed to vote Labour...if you cut us we would bleed red.

Except for bomb throwing conservative anarchists like myself of course.

Mrs.Peel; we're needed! Mr.Thande is stirring up trouble again!

That's "Mr ta Kirinrenor", I think you'll find.

Anyway, further opinions on this Tenth Doctor? I admit myself that I'm rather sceptical. Good Casanova does not necessarily good Doctor make.

People were probably quite skeptical about a certain youthful veterinarian from All Creatures Great And Small, and a little guy with a talent for playing spoons, but they did pretty well. Ecclestone has grown on me, despite that leather jacket and short, short hair that I didn't think I could get past, but I have, so I'm willing to give Tennant a chance. It's up to the writers and his own acting skills to make us believe he's the Doctor, and even then it might take a whole season for him to find himself.

My wish is that this Doctor revive the traditional unusual costume, rather than Mr. Ecclestone's leather coat.

Good Casanova does not necessarily good Doctor make.

As long as he cuts out all the sex, he'll be just fine...

People were probably quite skeptical about a certain youthful veterinarian from All Creatures Great And Small, and a little guy with a talent for playing spoons, but they did pretty well.

Well...let's face it...not THAT well.

What about the weird guy with the teeth and curls? He wasn't very much like the previous Doctors.

C'mon, Emily. Davison and McCoy had some pretty good stories, and between them they contributed to 6 years of the series run. That's got to amount to some nice words from you.

What about the weird guy with the teeth and curls? He wasn't very much like the previous Doctors.

Oh he was! Just quite a bit...y'know...madder. And curlier. And toothier. And scarfier.

C'mon, Emily. Davison and McCoy had some pretty good stories, and between them they contributed to 6 years of the series run. That's got to amount to some nice words from you.

Weeeell...yeeeeeesssssss...have to admit, I LIKE them both (a lot, when I'm in a good mood) and they have some utterly brilliant stories (along with the Times of the Ranis and the Warriors of the Deeps) but if somone does 'pretty well' you'd expect their programme to BLOODY WELL SURVIVE THEM AND NOT HAVE TO WAIT SIXTEEN GODDESS-DAMMED YEARS FOR A PROPER REVIVAL.

And OK, I know I shouldn't be blaming the actors, but...they're THERE. On-screen. Pretending that they can replace Tom Baker. ASKING for it...

There, that wasn't so bad now was, it? Geez, remind me NOT to ask you for a couple bucks/pounds until Friday!
It's just that you confused me when you said Davison and McCoy weren't up to your standards. After all, we all know how you feel about Colin Baker, so by placing Tom as number one, and C.Baker as number 8, and Davison and McCoy as 6 and 7, that leaves your top five favourites as Tom Baker, (and then in some kind of order of preference) Paul McGann, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughtonm and Jon Pertwee, and somehow I really didn't think Hartnell and Pertwee were so high on your list, given your comments in the past.
It's been said that one's personal favourite is sometimes the one the viewer 'grew up with', or 'started watching the show with'. Was this true for you and ol' Tom, Emily?

and somehow I really didn't think Hartnell and Pertwee were so high on your list, given your comments in the past.

Ah. Until The Ecc came along, I had a tendency to lump all non-Bakery Doctors together as my second-favourites, but you're right, Hartnell was pretty far down the second-favourites list (oddly enough, I always love him when I'm watching him but don't remember him fondly). I do like Pertwee though, at least as well as the cricket-obsessed wimp and the spoon-playing clown.

It's been said that one's personal favourite is sometimes the one the viewer 'grew up with', or 'started watching the show with'. Was this true for you and ol' Tom, Emily?

Well, yeah, but I've always maintained that it's BLATANTLY OBVIOUS that Tom is GOD and I would worship him even if I hadn't had the joy of growing up with his boggly eyes.

Have you seen the brown costumer for the 10th Doctor? My goodness... sort of thing you expect from an accountant. Wonder if he'll go out and paint the town beige?

It can be seen at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/

Still think it's better than the 9th Doctor's biker jacket.

Bloody hell. I...I'm just not sure about a pin-striped suit for the DOCTOR. I think I'm with Chris on this one. (And there was NOTHING WRONG with our Ninth Doctor's leather jacket, thank you very much. It's like a second Scarf to me...)

All the same...*tries desperately to get into the spirit of things*...

WORSHIP HIM! WORSHIP HIM!

Ah, that's a bit better:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/tennant/800/t4.jpg

Love the long coat. Still having problems with the brown suit, though.

I like the sneakers.

The brown costume doesn't bother me so much, but I was hoping for something a little more eccentric for a chance (back).

However, at least it makes him look older, hopefully silencing those who said he looked ridiculously young after the regen (which he did, in that biker jacket).

I hadn't heard the rumours or Sarah's return, but have heard them of K9, whom RTD apparently likes. A lot. WOuld be interesting to see how he'll look (K9, not RTD). He'll probably be the same design but a little more detailed, like the Daleks.

Is John Leeson still around and active? Obviously they can get anyone to voice the doggone character, but it sure would be nice to have the original voice.

Sarah, K9 and Cybermen. The Slitheen are a small price to pay I guess.

Meanwhile, I've been watching some of RTD's earlier work in Casanova and The Second Coming. Both had scenes that reminded me of scenes in the new series. The Second Coming had the Doc, er, the Son of God using the Internet to find sites about the Second Coming which (while certainly not unique to these stories) reminded me very much of a similar scene in 'Rose.' And the decadent party scene, the last major scene in the young Casanova's story, was reminicent of 'The End of the World.'

Oh, and I think it would be really funny if the next Doctor was played by Peter O'Toole, who played the older Casanova. He has the only qualification apparently needed: he's worked with RTD before.

OK, what's all this nonsense Billie Piper is saying about Tennant being a lot lighter on his feet than Eccleston and dancing around a lot??? Even the Ecc's worst enemy (probably me) would have to acknowledge that he IS the dancing Doctor. I mean, one of his episodes was CALLED The Doctor Dances! So how much more dancier can Tennant BE?

Perhaps she's implying Tennant is a better dancer, not that he dances more. Only Piper would know if Eccleston was a bad dancer, cos she'd be the one who feet would be stepped on.

Is it possibly nothing to do with dancing and the fact that Tennant seems to be a thinner frame than Eccleston... so when they're doing the big chase scenes, Tennant doesn't "stomp, stomp, stomp" when he runs?

Perhaps she's implying Tennant is a better dancer

NO-ONE IS A BETTER DANCER THAN MY ECCLESTON!!!!

That moment when he starts dancing in End of the World is one of the happiest of my life. It's very nearly up there with the 'Fantastic!' London Eye scene (when I fell in love) and the 'Also travels in time' bit (when I realised that this is what I've lived my whole life for). Whereas the dancing reassured me that, yup, it's not just Rose - it's ALL gonna be this brilliant.

OK, what's all this the BBC's saying about the on-screen chemistry between Tennant and Piper being 'explosive'?? I mean, I'm so glad they're getting along cos Eccleston/Piper wiped the floor with every other TARDIS team EVER (even Wolsey-the-cat) and if the Tenth Doctor and Rose could BEGIN to measure up to that it would be utterly wonderful, especially as neither of THEM are planning on swanning off, but...explosive? Isn't that going a little too far? They ARE still Doctor n'Companion, y'know.

Maybe it means Rose found Ace's stash of Nitro-9? ;-)

Bad skin. HAS he got bad skin??

Re:KAM's last comment
Rose: (in curious tone)"Doctor, by the way, what are these cans of deodourant doing in the fridge...?"
Tennant Doc: "Hmmmm, deodourant cans in the fridge...? (Realisation Dawns) "Rose, put that can very carefully down on the table, & back away..."
Rose:"(in anxious tone) "Why, Doctor...?"
Tennant Doc: in cautious, measured tones)
"Those cans do NOT contain deodourant,Rose, but a concentrated form of Glycerol Trinitrate, otherwise known as Nitroglycerine, & they're very explosive & highly unstable, just like the person who made them in the first place..."

...Rose: (Still backing away) Who's that, then?

Tennant Doc: Well, her name was Ace...actually, Dorothy McShane...at least at first...but after she got her brains blown out her replacement from another dimension was called Dorothy Gale...she was a waitress...well, actually a Wolf of Fenric...but after I got her boyfriend eaten by fungi she became a space mercenary...before rejoining me and Benny - have I mentioned Benny, she was this twenty-fifth century alcoholic fake archaeologist...

*Nito-nine explodes, putting a merciful end to the exposition*

OK, haven't been able to stop myself reading all the articles about Who that are sprouting up...learnt more than I want to know about what's happening on the glorious day of Our Lord's Birth, but also found a few interesting Tennant-related snippets:

a) 'The Doctor is always right; he always knows where he's going; he has the moral high ground.'

Has this man actually WATCHED Season 1/27?

b) He's 900 years old and she's 19, and that would be a bit weird. That said, there are moments in this series that are . . . well, sexual would be the wrong word, but they explore that side of things possibly more than we've seen before...

And again...has this man actually WATCHED Season 1/27? How can things get MORE 'that side of things' without the Doc and Rose having an orgy on the TARDIS console or something?

c) He's the son of the Moderator of the Church of Scotland. Dear god, what IS it with Doctors and religious mania?

d) Tennant isn't his real name. And again...what IS it with Doctors and non-real names?

e) Tom Baker and Peter Davison sent him good-luck letters. Christopher Eccleston didn't. No comment necessary here, really.

So what is his real name, then?

David Landlord.

Kidding. It's David McDonald.

Did his ol' daddy have a farm?

I've been watching some of RTD's earlier work in Casanova and The Second Coming. Both had scenes that reminded me of scenes in the new series.

And I've just been watching Bob and Rose. Which also reminded me of the new series, what with the main male character falling in love with the main female character, who happened to be called Rose, even though he was utterly definite that he just didn't DO things like that. There's even Harriet Jones going on about Hannibal in the background...

OK, our beloved new Doctor. In all the anguishing I was doing about how the HELL RTG could succesfully replace the Greatest Doctor Ever with that whippersnapper, I was just as heart-broken about the drastic alterations the Ninth Doctor's utterly perfect CHARACTER would be forced to undergo as I was about the change of the utterly perfect actor and his utterly perfect ears.

I mean, the only sure thing about regeneration is that you end up with someone completely different every time. And this is especially important for this particular change, as pretty young Tennant following closely in his predecessor's ruthless/useless utterly alien/utterly human footsteps would feel like a boy trying and failing to fill his father's shoes (OK, leather jacket) and rub salt into extremely raw wounds. Right?

WRONG!!!!

Tennant just LOOKS so different from our lost precious that he can ACT incredibly like him and not leave himself open to unfavourable comparisons.

He can lecture aliens about not destroying humanity's potential before resorting to force, he can share the tendency to spend half his life with Jackie whilst being rude to her, he can demonstrate Ecc's vengeful reaction to murder, he can share his predecessor's obsession with humans' food consumption*, he can flirt with Rose, he can have all that darkness and all that humour...dear god, he can even say 'Fantastic!' without me wanting to kill him, Eccleston, OR myself.

Alright, so he's slightly politer - not calling us apes, and being prepared to put up with Jackie's cooking.

AND there's still room for the Tenth Doctor to achieve a few things our Ecc tragically never hung around long enough to do, i.e. save Earth, visit alien planets, and FINALLY show us more TARDIS...

*I'm thinking Children in Need thing more than Christmas Invasion, here.

God, is there any sight in human history sweeter than our Tennant in a red paper hat and glasses? (Glad he's continuing Davison's tradition of inexplicably and immediately acquiring spectacles perfect for his particular eye problem.) I just want to pick him up and cuddle him, a reaction hitherto confined to pussycats.

I'm starting to wonder if his character is as similar to the late lamented Eccleston's as I thought. Maybe the Ninth Doc was severely depressed most of the time and just had these bursts of manic excitement, whereas the Tenth is the other way round? Of course, it's difficult to tell, what with just having his regneration story to go on.

WANT NEW SERIES OF THE NEW SERIES! WANT NOOOOOOOOW!

Tennant and Piper sign up for Season 3 (includes spoilers for Season 2).

From the article:
Under questioning, Davies said he had no qualms about the Doctor coming back as a woman.

He said: "I have no problem with that. I would do it."

Oi. Here we go again.

And, less happily (see today's Independent):

'For the first time, the Doctor, played by David Tennant, falls in love and ponders God's existence.'

Please, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Oh, give the guy a break. Let him fall in love once a century. (He did have granddaughter after all.)

Here's an amusing thought. He falls in love with woman, then loses her. He regenerates as woman and looks exactly like the woman he fell in love with.

Introducing the new Doctor....Hattie Hayridge!

Oh, give the guy a break. Let him fall in love once a century.

Once a CENTURY????!!!! He's nine hundred years old for god's sake...well, actually I make it one thousand one hundred...but either way, that's a LOT of sex and ex-girlfriends/wives/boyfriends roaming the universe, probably demanding alimony...

(He did have granddaughter after all.)

She was non-biological, I tell you! AND adopted!! AND Loomed!!! AND the Other not the Doctor's granddaughter!!!!

Look, I can just about cope with the Doctor and Rose being in love as long as they don't realise/admit/acknowledge it, and don't...y'know...have any SEX.

In any case, RTG kept telling us that the Ninth Doctor and Rose were in love so how can it be 'for the first time'?

And, alright, I was more worried by the God-bothering than the lurve, the new series got me used to the idea of Doctor/Companion relationships whether I liked it or not. (And - what the hell - I liked it. Anything that was part of Season One/Twenty-Seven was by definition perfect. This doesn't stop me getting worked up all over again about such matters when it comes to Season Two/Twenty-Eight, at least until it hits the screens and I'm prostrating myself before its wonderfulness.)

"Once a CENTURY????!!!! He's nine hundred years old for god's sake... that's a LOT of sex and ex-girlfriends/wives/boyfriends....."


I said fall in love, not have sex. They're not the same thing. But I think he deserves a little fun once every thousand years.

Emily - Look, I can just about cope with the Doctor and Rose being in love as long as they don't realise/admit/acknowledge it, and don't...y'know...have any SEX.

The Doctor: Of course I love Rose, but as a bendy toy, not for sex!

I said fall in love, not have sex. They're not the same thing.

Yeah, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the Doc's now capable of sex ('You just assume I don't...dance. Been around 900 years, me. I think you can assume that I've...danced') and surely if he fell in love the lucky woman/man/alien monstrosity in question wouldn't hesitate twice about...dancing. Having his babies. That sort of thing.

But I think he deserves a little fun once every thousand years.

He HAS fun! Foiling alien invasions is fun, fun, fun! FANTASTIC fun!

The Doctor: Of course I love Rose, but as a bendy toy, not for sex!

Tut tut TUT.

Am I the only one who keeps expecting the Doctor to suddenly start shouting "I'll get you, Harry Potter"?

yes I think you are Graham.... [backs slowly away...]

Interestingly there were plans to make a Dr Who film in the mid 1990s with Alan Rickman as the Doctor, but the company's rights ran out before they got very far.

Rodney - Graham's remark was because David Tennant played a bad guy in the fourth Harry Potter film.

I know Padawan, I'm a Potter tragic like most of the population....

Am I the only one who keeps seeing Jarvis Cocker when he puts the glasses on?

Graham's remark was because David Tennant played a bad guy in the fourth Harry Potter film.

And ITV put a Potter film on when New Earth was blessing us with its presence...needless to say we beat the hell out of it.

Am I the only one who keeps seeing Jarvis Cocker when he puts the glasses on?

Nope, Lawrence has explained the whole 'Jarvis Cocker' concept to me.

I'm beginning to think that Tennant wearing his glasses is his equivalent of 'Fantastic!'

So...congratulations are in order. It's taken ten bodies and 900 years (actually, by my reckoning it's more like 1,150 years, and that's ignoring the century's hibernation in Sleep of Reason, but never mind, let's assume the Doctor knows his own age and isn't just lying to minimise the age gap with Rose)...anyway, come The Idiot's Lantern our Doctor has finally become a feminist! Crack open the champagne!!!!

Alright, so the last few Doctors haven't done anything too blatant in the 'Why not make some coffee to keep them all happy while I think of something' department. And the Eighth Doctor claimed in Casualties of War that he helped chain Emmeline Pankhurst to the railings, but what sort of condescending male thinks a woman isn't capable of chaining herself to the railings???

This is the first time the Doctor has stepped up and declared that housework isn't women's work. I'm so proud of him. Even if, frankly, he didn't make a 100% convincing feminist, what with him calling Rose 'doll' earlier (usually I'd be calling for the death penalty but in this case I accept he's just speaking the lingo, especially given that Rose calls him 'Daddy') and slipping RIGHT off his pedestal when he says 'Bless yer mum' vis-a-vis the Inspector's name-tags (so housework isn't women's work but sewing definitely is...?)

In one fell swoop (i.e. Fear Her) the Tenth Doctor has announced that he a) had kids, b) loves sport, and - worst of all!!!!!!!! - c) hates cats. Does this man WANT me to lunge screaming for his throat??? Why would anyone, let alone the Doctor who is practically an honorary cat ('The cat that walked by himself, and all places were alike to him...') claim not to love those fluffy, adorable, oochy-coochy little bundles of joy? I never thought I'd say it, but...come back Colin Baker, all is forgiven! At least he loved cats, even more than he loved acid baths. (Alright, he also loved EATING cats, but that's a different story...)

I reckon that Catnun stuff was just an excuse (though I suppose it's possible he was traumatised for life, what with it happening so soon after his regeneration). Rose was also threatened by cats in wimples and SHE still responded, quite correctly, to the sight of that gorgeous ginger moggie with cries of 'Aren't you a beautiful boy!' And therein, I suspect, lies the Doctor's feline problem. Look at the way he couldn't take no longer being the most important man in Rose's life in Father's Day. Look at him experiencing Captain-envy in The Doctor Dances. Well, he had the temerity to think HE was the beautiful boy in question ('I am experimenting with back-combing'...ha ha ha ha ha!) and the fact that Rose's adoration was all for the precious kitty led, I suspect, to a certain amount of cat-envy.

He hates cats?? Wow- I'm starting to like this man already....

Don't get me wrong, cats are great- under car tires......

Cats make great companions- for German Shepherds

Now that I have my good running shoes on, I shall start running immediately...

Oh, it'll take more than running shoes to save you. You are soooooooooooooooooooooo dead. (And I don't mean Ghosts of N-Space-style 'living happily ever after in the arms of Baby Jesus' kind of dead, I mean Sabbath in Sometime Never...-style 'being-tormented for all eternity' kind of dead.)

In short...I am a Cheetar person and you're a Perivale teenager. I'm Victoria and you're the Weed. I'm the Bad Wolf and you're a Dalek. I'm Mickey-the-idiot and you're a member of Family Slitheen. I'm William Hartnell and you're a wounded caveman. Getting the picture now? You think Morgaine or the Megara are a bit obsessed with eternal vengeance? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Anyone else see the David Tennant episode of "Who Do You Think You Are?" last night? (For those that don't know the concept, famous people get a bit of help researching parts of their family tree, then they go out and get some more information about interesting people on it).

Quite interesting, although DT's accent seems to be based on his current latitude - as he was driving up to his parents in Glasgow you could hear him getting more and more scottish by the mile

Yes, I liked the way his accent kept changing. I also loved the fact that apparently some Who fans were shocked to learn that his natural accent isn't English - although that just goes to show what a good job he does of it.

I don't know who gets to decide which line of the family tree should get most emphasis - the star or the BBC who've done all the research. Personally I'd have liked to have had less emphasis on the Troubles - particularly the too-dramatic voiceover from the narrator about Bloody Sunday (David's cousin who was actually there should have got more onscreen time) - and for them to have covered more generations, or the other side of his family as well.

Particularly interesting was David's unease about even having to hold the sash of an Orangeman. It's fascinating to see people's reactions when they find what they perceive to be skeletons in their family closet.

Particularly interesting was David's unease about even having to hold the sash of an Orangeman.

Yeah - what the hell did he EXPECT, having Irish Protestant ancestors? OF COURSE they were going to be vote-rigging and parading round in orange sashes! But Tennant's quite adorably shocked. He's obviously a really NICE person, but unfortunately that makes for pretty dreary TV. Tom Baker doing Who Do You Think You Are - now THAT would be fun. But then, I suspect Tennant could have dug up the most interesting bunch of relatives on the planet, and I'd still have been screaming 'What the HELL do you think you're doing?! Shave that ******* beard off and go save the universe!' at him.

It did seem like his idea to go out beyond his grandmother Nellie, so I guess a lot of it is where the person in question wants to go.

That's not to say the BBC don't examine the options and spin the more exciting parts a little more than the others when they talk to them about it though ;)

And that does seem to be a genuinely scottish beard he had (short cropped, but down the front of the neck) - the only people I've ever seen it on are scotsmen

OK, am I just being paranoid or is 'I think I now know how many series I'm going to do, and Russell, Julie, and I have talked about it, and will continue to talk about it' VERY bad news? If Tennant 'knows' then, well, it's not very likely to be leave-when-I'm-on-the-zimmer-frame time, is it? It's probably gonna be at the end of season 3 (RTG REALLY likes big endings to seasons, it's almost impossible to remember this has never been a Who tradition) or - if we're VERY lucky and Tennant remembers that season 4 is really the 40th anniversary year - twelve months later.

Does the ******* not REALISE that he's the only thing that's kept me going since Ecclestraitor left me? That the sight - no, just the thought - of our Tenth Doctor is so glorious that it can single-handedly get an innocent fan though Idiot's Lantern AND Satan-related two-parters?? That there may well be a limit to the number of Doctors I can fall madly in love with at first sight, not to mention the number of times a Time Lord can regenerate...?

Anyone see David Tennant on The Friday Night Project this evening?

Now THAT'S a funny guy!

Speculation is that Tennant will leav mid-season during Series 4.

And the BBC's denial was pretty lame, relying on the fact that series 4 hasn't been commissioned yet. I strongly suspect the speculations will prove true in this case.

And I hope, but doubt, that Doc11 will be an older guy. We haven't had one since Pertwee.

Tenant recently (2/6/07) that he is NOT leaving the series, and that you shouldn't believe what you read in the Sun.

Aside from the fact The Sun was right about Eccleston and Billie Piper leaving way in advance. I imagine he's not leaving the series - not until series four is commissioned and an announcement is made.

I suspect it will be more likely be the end of series four, then he would have down the favoured Troughton philosophy of "Three years and get out"

I'm not sure about Tennant definitively stating he's staying. That's what Outpost Gallifrey SAID, but when you read the actual quote it's more along the lines of 'you shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers' which is more a statement of the bloody obvious than a cast-iron guarantee along the lines of 'Don't worry, unlike my predecessor I will never betray and abandon you and break your hearts all over again'.

Well I think what that statement means is that he's not leaving FOR NOW. Of course, 12 months is a long time in television. Inevitably he will leave the show so at some point so then the Sun will say "See? We were right!"

Interesting comments about a multi-Doctor story from Tennant here: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a44303/tennant-talks-about-multiple-doctor-story.html

The only way they might be able to do it is in the style of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" where they integrated the current cast with Kirk, Spock et al in a 1960s episode... although quite how they would manage this with Doctor Who's black and white episodes, I'm unsure. I suppose they could "colourise" the bits of footage they want to use but it's still an expensive option.

However, this also gets around the ageing of the Doctors still alive, and the ones who may refuse to take part (Eccleston, Tom Baker). Mind you, there's nine previous Doctors to cover... and a similar plot device was used in Paul Cornell's 30th anniversary comic strip "Time And Time Again" and Terrance Dicks' "The Eight Doctors"

I don't know if Tom would refuse to take part, he seemed to regret his little Five Doctors huff, and he did appear in Dimensions in Time - if he can stoop to THAT...

And maybe we could get our Eccy back if we...y'know...TORTURED him a bit or something...

Anyway, the important thing is that our darlingest Tenth Doctor is gonna be around for the whole of Season Four/Thirty WORSHIP HIM! WORSHIP HIM! At least if the Daily Mirror is to be trusted. Though I find it hard to believe the BBC are paying him a million quid for the privilege.

But Tom did decline to do the online Shada after being approached - that was for the 40th anniversary - and we also didn't hear him in Zagreus, either, also for the 40th anniversary.

Oh. Yes. But that COULD just be because Tom (generally) has good taste - have you read his account of 'accidentally' allowing the Big Finish scripts to slide off his lap into the bin where they belonged - and Zagreus and (I gather) the revised Shada were rubbish. Anything by Russell T God, on the other hand...

Tom Baker doesn't take part in BF because he only wants to play the Doctor if he can do something new with him. He doesn't want to play the character the same way he did in the 70s. While as an artist that's admirable, that would totally screw up continuity. I don't think he'd be easy to get for a multi-Doctor story. Plus he looks really old and heavy.

I think Peter Davison is the only classic series lead who would could pull it off. I haven't seen any recent footage of McCoy so I'm not sure about him, but he always did look a little timeless, so maybe.

If that guy on YouTube that created the Ten Doctors can combine black and white Hartnell's with colour Tennant and Pertwee, then surely the BBC's big machines could do just as good a job. There's also the fact that Trials and Tribble-ations is already 10 years old, and they did a great job back then. I'd love to see something like Curse of Peladon or Robot or An Unearthly Child with Tennant working in the background to make things turn out the way they did as we first viewed the shows.

A plot along the lines of the Eight Doctors would facilitate that kind of story. Having all 10 Doctors appear together in one shot would be a nightmare to pull off. I realise they wouldn't have to all appear together all the time, but they'd have to a couple times, if only for a 'money shot.' But Tennant meeting each of his past incarnations in succession would be a heckuva lot easier to realise.

Less interesting though.

You should read the BBC EDA "The Eight Doctors", Kevin, to see just how awful that idea can be.

I think, numerically, all ten Doctors would be too much. I'd be satisfied to see a Tenth Doctor story interwoven with a First or Second or Third Doctor story, although my main preference would be for interaction between Tennant and a previous Doctor.

I read half of it before I petered out. I agree it was pretty lame and formulaic and Terrance Dicky. I just meant pragmatically, it would be a lot easier for the production team to pull off. A story composed of composite shots of several different Doctors at one time would be so hard that it would probably never happen.

Money talks; just pay them and let them work it out. Like I said, the YouTube guy found clips he could merge, so surely a professional could do even better.

Now he's finally got over the pretence of hating cats, I think it's about time to promote Tennant to my second-favourite Doctor. Joint with Tom of course - I'm not betraying HIM again in a hurry. He really has been 'a bit magnificent' in series 3/29 - not of course that I didn't utterly adore him from the moment of 'Did you miss me?' - but our Lonely God is really coming into his own these days. (Lawrence has rather meanly suggested this is due to there no longer being any competition from the Companion, rather than to an actual improvement.)

Tennant's on Parkinson this Saturday on ITV1, 10.40 p.m.

Caught him on the Christmas Special of Extras. Didn't realise the part would be so small. I expected a bigger part as celebrity guests usually get on this show.

Still, we saw him in character as the Doctor (or in costume as the Doctor anyway), with a new companion battling an alien reminiscent of Mestor.

Anyone prepared to comment on his Top Gear apperence last night....?
The look on his face, as he found out that Billie Piper turned a faster lap than he did was priceless....

Having finally managed to get around to watching Takin' Over The Asylum I find a young DT has his character uttering the words "I don't have to conform to the vagaries of time and space. I'm a loony for God's sake".

Very prescient writing

Graham! Where did you get TOTA from?! I would love to see that again but had heard that they can't release it on DVD because of all the copyrighted music in it.

You can't GET it? But I neeeeeeeeeeeed it! NOW!

Since I didn't get around to finishing making a copy of TOTA for Emily can I just mention that it's coming out soon on DVD in the UK? About 13 quid from Amazon on pre-order.

SPOILERS FOR SEASON 4/30 - UP TO AND INCLUDING TURN LEFT:

Is it just me or has Tennant been overdoing it on the bereavement front recently? Unicorn and the Wasp is 'the other day' from Last of the Time Lords, which means that in a few weeks:

The last member of the Doctor's species has topped himself rather than spend another minute with the Doctor.

Both the Doc's best friends have somewhat unexpectedly (in view of the fact they're both in love with him) abandoned him.

The Doc's brand new best friend/love interest promptly nobly sacrificed herself.

The Doc's brand new daughter promptly nobly sacrificed herself to save his skin.

The Doc's brand new wife promptly nobly sacrificed herself to save his skin.

And that's leaving aside the anguish the Doctor was ALREADY suffering from a) blowing up his home planet, b) losing Rose, and c) spending a year as a tortured oldie watching his favourite planet get genocided.

I mean, Tennant's really adorable when he's all miserable, but then he's really adorable when he's all happy, so JUST GIVE THE GUY A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, look. The stars are going out and it's the end of the universe...

For us US viewers, David Tennant is on Top Gear this Monday (BBCAmerica at 8pm ET). He's on the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" feature, where they give him a Ford Escort or something and he has to race it against the clock around their track. Will he beat Billie Piper's time set earlier on another episode? What kind of car does he drive normally? Will he find third gear?

Annoyingly, "Midnight" isn't on this weekend so I have to wait even longer to read the above post. I have dutifully skipped over it.

Sad News. Emily will soon be slitting her throat at the sad news that Tennant is leaving the series at the end of 2009.

Sorry Emily

Emily's current silence is ominous & worrying.

Silent or ranting Emily is always ominous & worrying. It's when you realize she's standing behind you with a deadly weapon that you should run. ;-)

Russell T Davies, executive producer, said: "I've been lucky and honoured to work with David over the past few years - and it's not over yet, the Tenth Doctor still has five spectacular hours left!

"After which, I might drop an anvil on his head. Or maybe a piano. A radioactive piano. But we're planning the most enormous and spectacular ending, so keep watching."
Personally I'd like to see Emily in his last episode screaming, Why are you leaving me, traitor!" & smashing his head into something. ;-)

Give Emily some credit. I'm sure this ominous silence signifies that she is spending her free time thinking up new and terrible things to do to Tennant for his ultimate betrayal. As soon as she has devised the perfect plan, she'll be back on the boards just as she ever was...

I'm not sure which is worse... that we have a psycho stalker on our board, or that we make jokes about it!

Silent or ranting Emily is always ominous & worrying. It's when you realize she's standing behind you with a deadly weapon that you should run. ;-)

Actually, it was worried for Emily--am, as she's still silent.

*Breathes*

*Breathes*

*Breathes*

Really, everyone, thanks for your concern, but honest, I'm fine, I'm absolutely fine, I've taken up breathing and it's really working - breathing is good, I like breathing, just like bananas, bananas are good, I like bananas...where was I...oh yes...

*Breathes*

*Breathes*

*Breathes some more*

See? No repeat of any...stuff...that may possibly have been said the LAST time my heart was broken and my life was over something of this sort happened. Isn't the definition of insanity to keep doing the same thing over and over again when it doesn't do any good? And it's not as if a) I DID cut anyone's ears off, and b) I don't invariably fall in love with any new series Doctor two-thirds of the way through his first episode anyway.

So really, I'm fine. We're all fine. We can do this. We are fans and we...just...need...to...keep...breathing...and...hope...one...day...the...pain...will...go...away...

I look forward to your utter devotion to Joanna Lumley.....(runs away quickly)....

I will hate it when it happens, and then will also fall in love with the next completely unknown...relatively unknown....completely unknown to Emily unless he's had a bit part in Doctor Who before....actor when he starts. I'm going to start putting James May and Richard Hammond forward. Hey, how about The Stig? He's more terrifying than the Daleks any day.

It's for the best. Tennant was in danger of going the way of Tom Baker in staying too long. Four years is probably about right; there's nothing worse that a Doctor gone stale.

Besides, he was running out of different ways to say, "That's impossible!"

Oh for the love of all that's holy Emily, get a grip.

Within minutes of the next Doctor appearing you'll be going "David who?". This board will be unbearable for the next 15 months or so before the next Doctor makes his first full appearance....

And you'll be referring to him as Traitorennant, just like you called Eccleston the Ecclestraitor.

Too bad, he's a good Doctor.

From the BBC website debating the new Doctor :-

'Added: Thursday, 30 October, 2008, 21:49 GMT 21:49 UK

Think the idea of Phillip Glenister has a certain merit, particularly if they can somehow figure out how to write John Simm back in as the Master again:

"Don't you come into my TARDIS, acting king of the jungle! I'm The Doctor, it's 1973, and i'm having hoops!"

Steve, Manchester'

Made me laugh out loud! Then someone said "Richard Armitage" and I thought, "OOOOOO YYYYEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!"

Talk about Dark and Brooding. He Broods better than David Boreanz.

Just heard the news. :-( We're praying for you, Emily! Stay strong!

I look forward to your utter devotion to Joanna Lumley.....(runs away quickly)....

Hey, no need to flee in terror, nothing wrong with a female Doctor at long last, and she's the obvious candidate, what with having done it before (and it turns out that all the sonic-screwdriver-obsession, in-love-with-the-Companion, falling-for-the-Master stuff was rather PROPHETIC).

It's for the best. Tennant was in danger of going the way of Tom Baker in staying too long. Four years is probably about right; there's nothing worse that a Doctor gone stale.

Personally, I've never noticed ANY Doctor going stale. They've always been as utterly wonderful, terrible, or adequate as they were the moment they materialised into our lives. (If anything, Tennant has achieved the impossible and actually got BETTER than the day he started 'new teeth'-ing at us.)

Besides, he was running out of different ways to say, "That's impossible!"

I'm sure it wouldn't be beyond the wit of Russell T God and Steven Moffat to invent a new catchphrase...

Oh for the love of all that's holy Emily, get a grip.

What what WHAT?!

I HAVE got a grip, you plum!*

Yes I can, here I am, this is me, with a grip!

Alright, a hanging-onto-a-crumbling-cliff-above-an-endless-abyss-by-the-skin-of-your-fingernails
kind of grip, but nonetheless, unmistakably a grip. Lots of breathing and HARDLY ANY screams, tears, death-threats, suicide-threats, or mentions of the t-word...what more do you WANT?

Just heard the news. :-( We're praying for you, Emily! Stay strong!

*Sniffles* That's so sweet! And just when Tennant has FINALLY handed us irrefutable proof of the non-existence of God...(And please don't think I'm just picking on YOUR god, I mean what the HELL was RTG thinking? To lose one Best Doctor In The Universe may be accounted a misfortune, to lose TWO seems like carelessness...He's 6'6", couldn't he just have beaten up the Skinny Boy In A Suit till he agreed to stay for a few more years...?)

*Personally, I consider 'plum' to be a truly pathetic insult, but hey, if it's good enough for Jackie Tyler...

They discussed on the DVD commentary at the beginning of Journey's End (SPOILER) about whether he was now the 10th and 11th Doctors. RTD said he wasn't, but provided no justification why wasting his 10th regeneration didn't count.

It can't be to prolong the 13 lives to allow for the maximum number of actors since they're going to have to solve this "12 regenerations only" problem before too much longer anyway. Or perhaps they plan to do a "Master" on him and have him regenerate as many unexplained times as necessary to preserve the series.

There are disturbingly regular hints about his "immortality," which I think would ruin him as a character. Where's the peril if he can always come back?

They sowed the seeds for life behind 12 regenerations in the recent Master episodes, where the Master said the Time Lords resurrected him to fight in the Time War. They also offered him a new life cycle in The Five Doctors. Mind you, there's no Time Lords around now to offer that assistance. The Minyans also regenerated themselves ad nauseum, so the technology exists somewhere.

There are disturbingly regular hints about his "immortality," which I think would ruin him as a character. Where's the peril if he can always come back?

Honestly, I haven't noticed such hints, let alone that the Doc can ALWAYS come back WHATEVER happens to him (that's Captain Jack, and it totally freaks the Doctor out).

They sowed the seeds for life behind 12 regenerations in the recent Master episodes, where the Master said the Time Lords resurrected him to fight in the Time War...Mind you, there's no Time Lords around now to offer that assistance.

The Doc could manage to set himself up a new life-cycle better than any number of those useless Time Lords could...assuming he'd want to. I find it hard to picture, though he's certainly dropped his 'Everything has its time, and everything dies' attitude in recent years.

The Minyans also regenerated themselves ad nauseum, so the technology exists somewhere.

As did Mawdryn's bunch, so eternal life should be a piece of cake for the Doc. (Of course, previous Doctors might have claimed that the complete physical AND psychological change made regeneration OK whilst the Minyan/Mawdryn form of immortality was hideous damnation, but hey, it's not as if TennantDoc is now is a position to argue that changing your form is to be welcomed with open arms...even if the actor *spits, curses* seems to have that delusion.)

Honestly, I haven't noticed such hints, let alone that the Doc can ALWAYS come back WHATEVER happens to him

School Reunion: "I don't age; I regenerate...[snip]...I have to live on, alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords." Implies an eternity of loneliness, not a fixed number of lifetimes.

Family of Blood: "I never read to the end. Those creatures would live forever." Okay, so the Journal of Impossible Things may not be accurate, but it is derived from John Smith's apparently real imaginings.

Last of the Time Lords: "Point is, it's not so easy to kill a Time Lord. They can regenerate, literally bring themselves back to life." No mention about how they can do it only so many times. Shoot them enough, they stay dead. Of course, Martha may not know that, but still.

School Reunion: "I don't age; I regenerate...[snip]...I have to live on, alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords." Implies an eternity of loneliness, not a fixed number of lifetimes.

True, but then the Doctor was obviously sprouting a load of gibberish to explain away the inexplicable fact he'd betrayed n'abandoned poor old Sarah Jane in Aberdeen. Had the Doc not meanly dumped Rose on that beach AGAIN, I'd put money on her outliving Docs 11-13, no problem.

Family of Blood: "I never read to the end. Those creatures would live forever." Okay, so the Journal of Impossible Things may not be accurate, but it is derived from John Smith's apparently real imaginings.

Hmmm. That's a point. The Family certainly seem to think that the Doc's life will enable Son of Mine, at least, to achieve immortality. Which IS a bit weird if the Doc isn't immortal himself.

Last of the Time Lords: "Point is, it's not so easy to kill a Time Lord. They can regenerate, literally bring themselves back to life." No mention about how they can do it only so many times. Shoot them enough, they stay dead. Of course, Martha may not know that, but still.

I'm sure Martha knows that (she fancies herself quite a regeneration expert in Doctor's Daughter, (it's a pity she wasn't there for the Tennant Stolen Earth/Journey's End 'regeneration', she'd've been smugly showing off her alleged expertise and Rose and Donna would have beaten her to death))...BUT in this scene isn't Martha LYING to throw the Master's informer off the scent?

BUT in this scene isn't Martha LYING to throw the Master's informer off the scent?

But she doesn't really need that particular lie to get the Master to come for her. Having a gun that would kill a TL without allowing him to regenerate would be enough to scare him without making the TLs themselves immortal.

But Martha did have to push the 'Oh, the immortality of Time Lords!' line in order to justify the absurd claim that she'd spent the last year looking for a regeneration-destroying gun instead of just shooting the Master through the head a few times.

Yes, I suppose tramping across the radiation pits of Europe or whatever would need some explaining.

Found this at Comic Book Resources.Com, where David and Russell sat at a panel discussing Doctor Who at the San Diego Comic Con...
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It was impossible to judge just how many were in line for the "Doctor Who" panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego. The queue stretched from the entrance of Ballroom 20, out a door, wrapped around under a tent, went down some stairs, and continued out of sight. There were even rumors of fans camping out overnight. Upon entrance, each attendee received issues of IDW Publishing's reprinting of "Doctor Who Classic" comics.
Moderator Robert Lloyd of the “Los Angeles Times” opened the panel with words of immense praise. "It's a show that can make me cry," said Lloyd.
Lloyd then introduced the panelists one by one, starting with Julie Gardner, the Head of Drama at BBC Wales. She was followed by Euros Lyn, director of many episodes of "Who," including fan-favorites "Silence in the Library" and "The Runaway Bride." Next was executive producer Russell T. Davies who, in Lloyd's words, "reconstructed and reinvigorated the show. The Davros, if you will—in a good way." The crowd gave Davies thunderous applause.
Finally, David Tennant, the 10th Doctor himself, took the stage sporting the Doctor's signature hairstyle. He was greeted by standing ovations and wave after wave of cheers.
"I'm going to start with the bad news," said Gardner. "We are not making any announcement about a 'Doctor Who' movie. I'm really sorry. I don't know where that rumor started. But it has made us think that this might be a good idea. Is this something you'd like?"
The crowd responded with deafening cheers.
Gardner then introduced a teaser trailer of the final episode starring Tennant's Doctor. The lights dimmed, and many familiar faces flashed across the ballroom's screens. The Ood, an alien race featured in several episodes of the show, will make a return, as will Catherine Tate as Donna Noble and Bernard Cribbins as Donna's grandfather, Wilfred Mott.
A hooded figure also appeared throughout the teaser. In the final seconds, a familiar voice echoed throughout the room. "My name is the Master," said the voice.
The crowd exploded as the hood was thrown off to reveal that a bleached haired John Simm will reprise his role as the Doctor's arch-nemesis.
Once the noise quieted down, Tennant demanded to see the trailer again, and the audience cheered even louder. Shouts of "one more time!" were heard at the end, but the panel had to move on.
Lloyd asked the panelists about how they felt the cultural impact of "Doctor Who".
"It's something I grew up obsessed with, really," said Tennant. "So it's very strange to be up here and be part of it. When you go to a supermarket and your face is on a cake and children's pants, it's something they don't really prepare you for in drama school."
"Working on the show has been the most beautiful time of my life," said Davies.
"I'm playing the same man that William Hartnell was playing," said Tennant, referring to the actor who portrayed the Doctor's first incarnation. "I just have a different wig."
Lloyd asked how the panelists manage to make the show look good on such a "tiny little budget." "We go over budget," said Gardner with a grin. "We make hard choices about how may special effects we have, how many stunts we have. Sometimes after a big show we do a really small show, and that helps pay for the Christmas special. We also call in a lot of favors.”
When asked about how he personally loved the show, Tennant started stroking Davies hair, and Davies in turn stroked Lyn. Tennant then switched to Gardner.
"I thought we'd have a very big one year and then collapse and be taken off screen," said Davies. "We never imagined it would be so successful. It was mystifying, gob smacking and brilliant."
Lloyd then introduced Craig Glenday, the Editor-in-Chief of the “Guinness Book of World Records.” Glenday said that in addition to holding the record of the longest running sci-fi television show, "Who" easily took a new record for the most successful sci-fi show of all time.
"I accept this not as an executive producer, but for a woman named Verity Lambert," said Davies, referring to one of the original producers of "Who" who passed away in 2007.
In the question-and-answer period, a fan asked what Tennant's favorite part of working on the show was. "It genuinely feels wrong to choose. Each individual episode is it's own thing,” he said. “It genuinely feels like choosing between your children. It feels wrong."
Another fan asked Tennant how he dealt with the death and regeneration of the Doctors he liked as a younger viewer. "I remember being a kid when Tom Baker left, who I grew up with an idolized" said Tennant, referring to the actor who portrayed the Doctor's fourth incarnation. "But then Peter Davison cam along and after a few weeks I thought he was the best. And that's how I think it's going be with you. When Matt Smith comes around, in a few weeks you'll love him to."
Another favorite memory of Tennant's happened during a script read-through. "Suddenly, a voice from my childhood started calling me 'Doctor,' and the eight-year-old boy in me was being called the Doctor by Sarah Jane," Tennant said, referring to actress Elisabeth Sladen. "That was something special."
Gardner took the moment to announce that Tennant will appear in an upcoming episode of "The Sara Jane Chronicles" entitled "The Wedding of Sara Jane Smith."
Tennant's attention was brought to Matt Smith, who will succeed him has the 11th incarnation of the Doctor. "He's very enthused and will be brilliant. Which is annoying," he laughed.
At this point, Gardner pulled out a video camera and started filming Tennant's responses. Davies took the opportunity to announce that the panel itself will be on an upcoming episode of "Doctor Who Confidential."
The final question came from an 11-year-old girl, who asked Tennant what subject he would teach if he ever became a schoolteacher. After suggestions from the crowd ranging from physics to sex education, Tennant had this to say:
"The only subject I was every any good at at school, that I ever had any passion for was English, and my set text would be anything by Russell T. Davies."

Well, uh... thanks for the massive spoilers...

I've posted a warning on the first page of the Who section that there are spoilers, Andrew, so please don't act surprised. Besides, there's nothing in the post above that isn't readily available at the many fine Doctor Who news sites.

I linked to it from the last day post... so I missed that. Sorry, Mike.

Sorry, Andrew.
I just thought that everybody around here knows more than I do, since I'm not in the U.K.
I thought if I typed in 'SPOILERS' I'd look as silly as if I'd said, "By the way the new Doctor has big hair and a bow tie."

If I do this again, I'll warn everyone next time.

'Even then...even if I change...it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away and I'm dead.'

••••.

Tennant n'RTG aren't exactly making it easy for us to accept the concept of 'regeneration', are they?

Still...that's not really their job. It's Matt n'Moff's job, may the gods have mercy on their souls. OUR guys (2005-2010, may they rest in nothing remotely resembling peace) job is to make us howl our bloody EYES out.

David Tennant was a good Doctor, probably the best since Tom Baker roamed the TARDIS. I really enjoyed his tenure on the show. He will be missed.

Hopefully, when they do some Multi-Doctor specials, he will reprise his role as the Tenth Doctor for us.

Oh, I don't think you could stop him!

The good thing is that the Doctor-lite can pitch up at any time in the future, without the need for a multi-Doctor special.

Actually it'd probably be easier, in plot terms, for a past Doc to crash his TARDIS into Matt's than to open the impregnable barriers between universes AGAIN.

By the time of the 50th anniversary in 2013, Tom Baker will be 79 and Colin and Sylv will be 70 - somehow i doubt a multi-Doc special would work in those circumstances

Well, possibly Matt will be a goner by then (Doctors these days have no staying power, the pathetic heartbreaking wimps), so he, Tennant, Eccleston, and McGann could join Doc Twelve for a new Five Doctors. Tom could do the voiceover.

Well, possibly Matt will be a goner by then (Doctors these days have no staying power, the pathetic heartbreaking wimps), so he, Tennant, Eccleston, and McGann could join Doc Twelve for a new Five Doctors. Tom could do the voiceover

Sounds good to me. I'd watch it.

'Look at you - not remotely important. But look at me - I can do so much more. SO MUCH MORE!' 'I don't want to go.' Oh great...NOW the Tenth Doctor decides he doesn't want to die? Having spent the last year (The Next Doctor in particular) implying that he has a death wish?

Just for you, Emily.

Scott, that is awesome!

Dunno about AWESOME, I thought cartoons were supposed to portray exaggerated and amusing situations, not perfectly everyday life...

What's this? No birthday wishes from Emily?
David celebrated his 39th birthday on April 18, just five days after Peter Davison reached 59.
Trivia; that places David's birth a day after part 2 of 'Colony In Space'.

And yes, it's a slow day for me today, allowing me to do such research!

If he wants birthday wishes he shouldn't have BETRAYED AND ABANDONED us, should he? He should have left Wilf to rot! He's worth a thousand Bernard Cribbinses!

(Well...several Bernard Cribbinses, anyway. And a thousand of anyone else.)

Fond though I am of it, I don't think Colony in Space is a terribly auspicious birth-sign. At the very least it should imply his destiny involved a lot of getting-locked-up-and-escaping but EVEN THOUGH HE WAS THE BLOODY DOCTOR he generally missed out on that sort of thing.

Still, it could have been a LOT worse. I got The Three Doctors. I'm still trying to work out what that says about my future.

The week that I was born they were filming Monster of Peladon episode 5 and were between screenings of episodes 1 and 2 of Death To The Daleks...

Hm. I was 2 years and 9 months before 'An Unearthly Child'! Somewhere around the time William Hartnell had parts in 'Mystery Kraft Theatre' and 'Ghost Squad'.

You kids go play in the other room, while Uncle Steve looks for his cane and hearing aid!

When Steve was watching "An Unearthly Child" originally, he was going "Goo-Goo, Ga-Ga, TARDIS!"

I hope not, Judith! I didn't get to see it until I was about 18, so I was probably wondering where the jelly babies and K-9 were!

Tennant returns to Doctor Who.

http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2010/10/tennant-goes-classic.html

That hardly counts as returning to Doctor Who. RETURNING would be a multi-Doctor story. Or a few more episodes starring the Tenth Doctor. Or Matt Smith regenerating into a Twelfth Doc who suspiciously resembles a slightly-older version of his Tenth self. Not appearing in some bloody DVD documentary. (Not that I'm surprised he's crawling back to Who already. Leaving was so obviously the worst mistake of his life. Even leaving aside what it did to MY life.)

Congrats to David Tennant and Georgia Moffat on their engagement... So Doc 10 is marrying his daughter huh? The mind boggles....

So his childhood hero is gonna be his father-in-law. Interesting.

Is anyone else squicked out by the age difference?
he was born in 1971 and she was born in 1984.

Is anyone else squicked out by the age difference?

Yeah, a bit. Doesn't bode well for the longevity of their marriage. Not to mention they're both actors; they'll never see each other. Still, all the best to them!

Eek. Well, in the normal way I'd disapprove of such goings-on, but at least their kids - if they are misfortunate enough to have any - will have CONCENTRATED Doctorish genes.

Is anyone else squicked out by the age difference?
he was born in 1971 and she was born in 1984

Well have an aunt and uncle who are twenty years apart, and they've beem married for 40 years now. They have three grown daughters and six grandchildren. So I could work.

The only strike against David and Georgia are that they're actors.

Why would anyone have a problem with anybody else's age differences? and that one's not even that profound.

It's hard to say why, prejudice probably, although it does open the door to more potential problems. They are almost a generation apart and he'll almost certainly die well before she does. Do they want children? He's almost 40, not the best age to start a family. Their life experiences are bound to be quite different and one wonders how much they'll have in common when the flush of love wears off.

That's no condemnation of their marriage, just that it's hard enough to stay together without adding difficulties.

Jeez, I've been in relationships with greater age differences that that (the woman being the older one). Nice to know that nitcentral people wouldn't approve....

Well, I wouldn't say disapprove exactly, more like great doubt.

Some wag in the blogosphere said that every weekday, Tennant'll wait for her to come home from school.

Ouch.

She's 13 years younger than him. Might be a problem if he was 30 and she was 17 but he's nearly 40 and she's 26/27. At that age they are both old enough and mature to know what they're doing. I say this as a person in a relationship with a woman 12 years my junior. You learn a lot from each other. best of luck to both of them I say.

Same here.

Hmmmm, if they have a child, this child could boast that their father and grandfather are Doctor's!

WELL. It seems that said child will be boasting of its parentage sooner than we thought.

Tennant doing an interview...a few years ago at http://www.team-tennant.com/article/id125.html:

Favourite website?

Oh, it's a real anorak admission. I've been an obsessive Doctor Who fan since I was a child and it persists to this very day. The BBC run a Doctor Who website and I go on almost every day to check the latest news. Doctor Who is the finest piece of television that has ever been made anywhere. They're putting together a new TV series next year and Bill Nighy is supposed to play the doctor. I've been onto my agent to see if I can get a part, but she's not keen. She says I'll never work again if I do it. I'm proud to say, though, that I have already performed in a couple of audiobook episodes. That was heaven.

This bloke is more of a Who fan than I am. He's so sad he thinks BIG FINISH is 'heaven'. So why did he leave us? Why? WHY????

No one wants chocolate cake every day, no matter how much they like it. Besides, what else could he do with the part? I think it's safe to say he'd explored pretty much as much range as the character could accommodate.

No one wants chocolate cake every day, no matter how much they like it.

Maybe not chocolate cake, but I sure as hell want SOME sort of chocolate every day. And Tennant only had to do Who nine months of the year! AND had a Gap(ing Chasm of Despair) Year whenever he got REALLY sick of chocolate!

Besides, what else could he do with the part? I think it's safe to say he'd explored pretty much as much range as the character could accommodate.

Why should the Doctor need to do new and exploratory things with his character anyway? He never did in the Good Old Days. Tom's very EXISTENCE as the Bescarfed One was good enough for us for seven glorious years.

Besides, there are DOZENS of new and exciting shapes Tennant could have gelled his fringe into...

Tom's very EXISTENCE as the Bescarfed One was good enough for us for seven glorious years.

Good enough for you maybe, but his performance was getting pretty tired towards the end. The lack of variety is probably what led to Tom's so-so years.

Besides, there are DOZENS of new and exciting shapes Tennant could have gelled his fringe into...

Sadly, we're left with only our imaginations.

his performance was getting pretty tired towards the end.

Was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

It merely took on a new layer of lugubrious subtly as Tom slowly progressed towards his tragic and VERY premature demise. (Yes I know that totally contradicts what I just said about him giving the same performance for seven glorious years, but what the hell.)

The lack of variety is probably what led to Tom's so-so years.

If some years were less supremely glorious than others, that was entirely due to writers and directors and other such creatures, NOT to Our Hero's stunning performance.

there are DOZENS of new and exciting shapes Tennant could have gelled his fringe into...

Sadly, we're left with only our imaginations.

Sadly? It's TRAGEDY! We could have got YEARS more out of that fringe alone! Never mind the rest of him...

Emily:Why should the Doctor need to do new and exploratory things with his character anyway? He never did in the Good Old Days. Tom's very EXISTENCE as the Bescarfed One was good enough for us for seven glorious years.

IMHO Tom would have been better off if he had left when Leela did-he clearly seemed tired during "The Key to Time" story arc,and was clearly not putting in his best effort.

When Lalla Ward took over as Romana he perked up somewhat-but the writters no longer knew what to do with him, which gave us two weaker seasons(and no-I'm not asying there weren't hightpoints).

While Tom is my favorite Doctor-I feel we would have been served better if he had left earlier than he did(who knows-we might have liked his replacement even better).

Emily:Sadly? It's TRAGEDY! We could have got YEARS more out of that fringe alone! Never mind the rest of him...

Since we don't know why he left-it is hard to guess on.

Who knows-if he's as big a fan as it says above(even Emily bows to his level of fandom)-maybe he wanted to get back to the fun and awe he felt while watching a new story-instead of knowing every plot twist and secret of how it was done.

Who knows-if he's as big a fan as it says above(even Emily bows to his level of fandom)-maybe he wanted to get back to the fun and awe he felt while watching a new story-instead of knowing every plot twist and secret of how it was done.

Unlike RTG, I've never noticed Tennant giving THAT as a reason for betraying n'abandoning us. And what True Fan could resist the temptation of getting the entire glorious plot MONTHS in advance of everyone else?

Anyway, why should the whims of some mere actor count more than the happiness of millions, not to mention the DOCTOR'S LIFE? My Tenth Doctor DIDN'T WANT TO GO!

And what True Fan could resist the temptation of getting the entire glorious plot MONTHS in advance of everyone else?

He often said that was his favorite bit about being the Doctor, when the script arrived.

Waaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!

Amanda:He often said that was his favorite bit about being the Doctor, when the script arrived.

This is my point-at this time he can read it the same way anyone else could.

On the other hand-he can no longer get the same thrill out of watching the show(he knows too much about how the show is made). He knows what all the suprises,the plot twists,the secrets of what is going on.

He also knows how the magic works-no wonder at how thing were-knowing the facts of how we wre tricked into seeing things not there--walking on the Tardis set would seem a real letdown compared to the dream of the real thing.

I'd think there'd be good reason for a true fan to leave the show, and going back to watching it with eveyone else.

Note: I would not want to star on a favorite show(or movie) in even a guest spot.

On the other hand-he can no longer get the same thrill out of watching the show(he knows too much about how the show is made).

I went to work in Hollywood for a year once behind the scenes and that sullied the fantasy for me for a while. I kept imagining the entire film crew in the background where we can't see them and it spoiled the intimacy, especially for emotionally fraught scenes. That lasted for about a year, but now I can watch as I used to. I imagine David will get over it soon enough.

This is only slightly related to the Georgia/David thing but with regard to talking to younger people, when is it allowed?
the Chaplin at my school said he would report me to the police for talking with younger pupils through the school's facebook group - even though that group has both alumni and current pupils

How young are they and what are you saying? If it's as innocent as I'm sure it is, then let him report you. Stupid busybody.

His words to me were "stop hassling people in the group. It's deviant behaviour when you start chatting to 14 and 15 year olds looking for 'friends'"

It probably depends on exactly what you're saying. If it's of a general nature to do with school life, then I can't see a problem. If you're offering dating advice or something more personal, then perhaps that might look a bit intrusive. Ask yourself what the kid's parents might think if they read it and use that as a guideline.

Not at I know. Just some thoughts.

DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR? That's a laugh, coming from a bloke who takes his orders from a non-existent genocidal maniac. Ask him if he's stoned any gays or sold any daughters into slavery recently.

Seriously?

I think that's more of a modern day Islamic practice than Christian.

Amanda:I went to work in Hollywood for a year once behind the scenes and that sullied the fantasy for me for a while. I kept imagining the entire film crew in the background where we can't see them and it spoiled the intimacy, especially for emotionally fraught scenes. That lasted for about a year, but now I can watch as I used to. I imagine David will get over it soon enough.

Although I've never worked in Hollywood-I've got to agree with Amanda here.

Knowing too much about a show can destroy its magic(if you know the tricks to create what you see it spoils the fun).

I would not want to work on a show that I loved.

Seriously?

No, of course I don't SERIOUSLY want Judi's chaplain to stone any gays. (Though I'd understand if he gets carried away when he spots someone wearing mixed-fibre clothing...)

I'm just saying - if she has a five-minute chat with this delightful fellow on subjects like women's rights, homosexuality, and evolution, SHE'LL be in a very good position to go to the police about HIS deviant behaviour...

I think that's more of a modern day Islamic practice than Christian.

In practice, yeah, but the instructions are all there in the good old Old Testament...

Knowing too much about a show can destroy its magic(if you know the tricks to create what you see it spoils the fun).

You just have to develop an Orwellian doublethink mentality. I can watch Confidential straight after a new episode of Who (though I wish they'd leave a BIT of a gap just so that I can BASK for a while) happy in the knowledge that this behind-the-scenes stuff just isn't as REAL.

though I wish they'd leave a BIT of a gap just so that I can BASK for a while

You've just got to learn how to record.

Or you could leave Confidential until you get the DVD-the best of both worlds(and get two happy nights months apart.

You've just got to learn how to record.

I USED to be able to do that. Now I'm not even sure if my video machine still works...

Or you could leave Confidential until you get the DVD

Ugg, no! I'm not denying that 45 minutes per Confidential is a little on the long side, but those MUTILATED 15-minute DVD Confidentials are an INSULT.

I'm not one for celebrity news, but a baby girl has just been born to David Tennant and Georgia Moffett, which means that for the first time in history, there's a human with the blood of TWO Doctors.

So The Doctor's Daughter has just given birth to the Doctor's Daughter and in the process made the Doctor a grandfather...


I have a headache...

Are they even married yet?

Does it matter if they're married or not. It's the 21st Century.

It matters, we just have a sick hedonistic society that tries to pretend it doesn't. :-)

Well, it's not just our sick hedonistic society, it's also Doctor Who that doesn't exactly give marriage a good press. It's all too often equated with the end of a woman's space-and-time-travelling career - alas, poor Susan, Vicki, Jo and Leela. Has ANY Doctor, over 900 years and eleven incarnations, given his supposed wife (i.e. Susan's granny) a single thought? (Give or take a couple of Lance Parkin novels, but then even the Doctor can't exactly ignore his wife if she pops up and gets shot dead in front of him.) Sarah's bridegroom tops himself on their wedding day. Donna's bridgegroom tells her a giant genocidal spider is better than her in bed on their wedding day. Ten marries Liz One and scarpers. Eleven marries Marilyn Monroe and scarpers. One gets engaged to Cameca and scarpers. Can we detect a pattern here, people...? Fingers crossed that Amy and Rory Pond will set a fine example of wedded bliss (or at least of NOT trying to jump the Doctor any more).

Anyway...back to the sprog...usually I'd react with extreme horror to yet another ghastly little accident being inflicted on our already grotesquely overpopulated planet but - the rug-rat has the blood of TWO DOCTORS in her veins! Welcome to Olivia Moffet-Tennant-Davison, our Nineteenth Doctor!

Picture of Davey in the Fright Night remake.

The hell it is! Not unless he's regenerated...

yes Em, it is Mister Tennant. He looks awesome.

I'll have to put that on my Netflix list. I wonder what accent he'll use?

Overall, Tennant is my favorite "New Doctor"

Quite understandable. Eccy's still hanging on by a whisker as far as I'm concerned, though...

Overall, Tennant is my favorite "New Doctor"

I don't even need "new."

Still Eccleston for me, and I like Smith a lot. Tennant is too handsomer and sexier than I expect from the Doctor.

Is this your dream Emily?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyexKUSKFW0

More like my nightmare...

I liked it.

Oh yes, great sketch, it's just the thought of Tony Blair a) continuing to rule the country, and b) looking like the love of my life that freaked me out.

I just thought of something. We are in 2012, the year of the London summer olympics. You should attend the opening ceremonies, we know Tennant Doc lights up the olympic flame, it's a perfect opportunity for you to try and link up with him!

Well maybe his personality could change into Tennant's as well. That's what's meant to happen with regenerations after all.

You should attend the opening ceremonies, we know Tennant Doc lights up the olympic flame, it's a perfect opportunity for you to try and link up with him!

Great idea, except that a) I'd rather die than go to a sporting event, b) that godawful rugrat would deposit me AND the entire population of the stadium in another dimension (or something), c) that was all in another universe so is unlikely to recur here, and d) he's just gone and got MARRIED and had BABIES and things so my chances of linking up with him are even lower than hitherto.

Well maybe his personality could change into Tennant's as well. That's what's meant to happen with regenerations after all.

That's what happened with OLD Who regenerations. New Who Docs are all clearly the same adorable person, albeit with slightly different quirks.

And actually I'm not sure how good TennantDoc would be at running the country. He isn't exactly into democracy or consensus politics. Or law and order. Or economics. He also has a low boredom threshold...

Yeah Tennant doc would probably start another war lol.

'When we got into the period I describe as "The Cult of Tennant" I felt it started to lose its way...Tennant is a very, very good actor, but he likes to be liked too much. He doesn't want to lose his fan base, and you can see it.' – Donald Tosh in DWM. Well, no, I can't see it, but still...interesting point.

No, can't say I saw it either, not the way I saw it with Tom in his later years.

HE NEVER DID! SLANDER!

The Doctor married his daughter!

Had anyone heard about this? I've seen nothing posted here concerning the happy event. I think it's great, I wish them both a happy life together.

From Rodney in January last year:

Congrats to David Tennant and Georgia Moffat on their engagement... So Doc 10 is marrying his daughter huh? The mind boggles....

I think we had a discussion about how squicky (or not) the age difference made us feel.

Yes, found it. That was before I started posting regularly here, no wonder I missed it. How many posts has it been again? Over 40000? I wonder how long it would take me to read them all. Not enough to try though.

Math is your friend. Assuming I read one post per minute on average, at 8 hours of reading per day, every day, it would take me about 222-223 days to get through it all.

Math is your friend if you use it correctly.

That would be 83 days, not 223

Doh!

Hey--if you're going to be picky, I come up with 83 days, 8 hours and aa bit over half of a micro-second.

Calculators are fun, aren't they????

David Tennant as a vampire hunter in the recent remake of Fright Night

It was an okay movie, but not one I'd watch again.

10 said he based his personality on 5. I just watched the Caves of Androzani.

10 really didn't do a good job of imitating him tbh. 5 laid down his life for Peri without a second thought.

Tennant doing the Porter scene from MacBeth. No video, alas, but you can easily picture it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr4jULsh9Lg

10 said he based his personality on 5. I just watched the Caves of Androzani.

To quote River, the Doctor LIES. This is fairly evident from the fact that our beloved Lonely God isn't a bland, boring, cricket-loving, puffing-and-panting, bullied-by-his-own-TARDIS-crew, wearing-a-vegetable-in-a-pathetic-attempt-to-look-eccentric LOSER.

(I mean, not that I DISLIKE Davison or anything...It's just that compared to TENNANT...)

5 laid down his life for Peri without a second thought.

Well he HAD to, didn't he? You've just been pointing out on the Androzani board that he COULD have taken half the bats-milk immediately, and he COULD have given the other half to Peri immediately, and my life wouldn't have been TOTALLY RUINED by the Colin Baker era. (Plus he could have not dropped the phial in the first place. And/or put the lid on properly.) If Peri had died it would have been ALL HIS FAULT.

Whereas Wilf...he joined the Doctor against the Doctor's will, he jumped into that booth against the Doctor's explicit instructions, he BEGGED the Doctor to leave him there, he's EIGHTY while Peri's eighteen-ish, he's an ex-soldier while she's a civilian...even FIVE might have hesitated a BIT in THESE circumstances, though as this is the guy who risked the universe going boom so he could pick up some knocked-over groceries, probably not.

DWM: 'Guinness World Records 2013 lists David Tennant as Most Prolific Doctor with "over 340 appearances on Doctor Who in audiobooks, TV shows, DVDs and novels"' - sorry, WHAT! He's got, like, SEVEN audios and, what, 45-ish novels, even if you include Darksmith Legacy AND the Quick Reads separately...plus he only lasted THREE AND A HALF YEARS on TV...how can he POSSIBLY beat Tom Baker, or even one-hit-wonder (on TV!) Paul McGann, with his INSANE number of books n'audios?

'I always reckon the Doctor's brain is wired up differently when it moves from Doctor to Doctor. The reason David's Doctor was so "boo hoo, I'm going to die" towards the end is because that was the first time in his life that everything in his head was wired up beautifully' - Gareth Roberts. That's...quite possible, actually.

'There were times when I wanted to scream at David's Doctor, "Stop being so hard on yourself! You've saved so many lives! You don't have to be so sorry all the time, like a wet Guardian reader!"' - hey! He's not sorry-so-sorry ALL the time...

I think I've just worked out why I'm not as wildly in love with TennantDoc in Day of the Doctor as in all his other stories. Sorry to be shallow, but...it's that fringe. It's just boringly sitting on his forehead instead of jutting out in a hilarious and adorable and highly-gelled manner. I don't demand that it sticks out a good foot, a la *blissful sigh* Smith and Jones, but I expect it to make SOME effort. Sorry.

So...Ten is 904 years old in DotD. Some time between Voyage of the Damned (903) and End of Time (906), then. Presumably post-Donna as SHE'D'VE seen off that Shameless Hussy in no time. Well, whatever - he TOTALLY gets away with it. Tennant aged 10 years while doing Who and hasn't aged a day since, even with hordes of screaming brats to keep him awake...

'I'm going to be King!' - well, as long as you understand it's a COURTESY TITLE ONLY and you're a CONSORT, you filthy usurping MALE.

I REALLY don't like his 'You're compensating' when seeing that Eleven's sonic screwdriver is bigger. (Also, the more natural reaction would be to ask WHY he has that hideously green and chunky abomination instead of a slender, silver, blue-lit one.) It's awful enough when ELEVEN is sexually-innuendo-ing away about such matters (Vampires of Venice, Curse of the Black Spot) without TEN suddenly starting.

'Number Ten once regenerated and kept the same face. I had vanity issues at the time' - Time of the Doctor. Er...a) if Tennant thinks he's the most gorgeous Doctor/sentient being in the universe, that's not a 'vanity issue', that's just FACT, and b) NO HE DIDN'T. He made it QUITE CLEAR in Journey's End that he'd diverted the regeneration energy BEFORE he regenerated (how else could it have created an adorable human-Doctor out of a spare hand?). And if he'd had THAT much control over regeneration, there would have been no Matt Smith - he'd've just turned into a THIRD TennantDoc...

And if he'd had THAT much control over regeneration, there would have been no Matt Smith - he'd've just turned into a THIRD TennantDoc...

Still pondering this point. Tennant had a stunning amount of control over regeneration (holding it off during a farewell tour to EVERY COMPANION EVER, for heaven's sake) and he 'didn't want to go' to the extent that his forthcoming regeneration reduced him to insanity (Waters of Mars), tears, hysterical ranting and abject cowardice (End of Time).

Of course, Tennant didn't have a spare handy-hand lying around to assist in End of Time, but if he was undergoing a complete regeneration, he wouldn't NEED a spare hand in which to syphon off all the regeneration energy - he'd use it all up turning into another picture of Tennanty gorgeousness. (Only possibly a bit more ginger.)

And as he DID have such immaculate control, why the hell did his regeneration get so out-of-control that he wrecked Sexy AND thought he'd turned into a girl? Sure, he'd been holding back the regeneration for so long that it exploded, but if he was just gonna turn back into himself he wouldn't have NEEDED a farewell tour in the first place.

Rodney Hrvatin:
Oh Tennant can overact with the best of them. See almost half of his last full season plus the specials. More ham than a butchers shop.

PERSECUTE! BURN THE HERETIC!

Burning is WAY too good for The Heretic. I say we nip through the Crack, nick some regenerative equipment from Gallifrey, bestow some Mawdryn-like immortality upon The Heretic, and THEN set about torturing him. For all eternity.

Overacting my ****.

Tsk tsk. You people are harsh.

Oooooh!!! I've upset the Tennant fangirls. I'm sooooo scared right now.... ooooooohhhhh.... Emily might throw her gammy hip at me....

You'll be singing a different tune once you have spaghetti growing out of your head...

Give me one example of the Tenth Doctor overacting. ONE!

"I COULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOOOOD!!!!"

That bit at the end of Gridlock where he's trying to pretend he's crying.

"Brrrrrreath like a hhhhhhorrrrrrse"

Rodney's got you on this one, Emily.

The day Emily admits that I "got her" on this page will be the day that Satan orders a sweater....

"I COULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOOOOD!!!!"

Presumably that's when he's about to regenerate? It's not called overacting, it's called YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE AND YOU DON'T WANT TO.

That bit at the end of Gridlock where he's trying to pretend he's crying.

The end of Gridlock is, like the rest of Gridlock (bar that furry-bat-monster-thing), the supreme achievement of the human race.

"Brrrrrreath like a hhhhhhorrrrrrse"

I have no idea what you're talking about...

Presumably that's when he's about to regenerate? It's not called overacting, it's called YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE AND YOU DON'T WANT TO.

No, it's called "You're about to lose your steady paycheck so you're overacting like Ian Levine talking about missing episodes..."

The end of Gridlock is, like the rest of Gridlock (bar that furry-bat-monster-thing), the supreme achievement of the human race.
It's a good episode ruined by excess ham at the end.

I have no idea what you're talking about...
Day of the Doctor when he's on the Zygon ship

The sad thing is that Tennant is a fantastic actor when he's well directed (just watch him in Hamlet or Broadchurch sometime) but towards the end of his stint on Who he went as loopy as TB in his last season or two. Or three.

Yes. but Tom's an old booze bag, what's Tennant's excuse?

David Tennant could read the phone book and Emily would probably still swoon.

David Tennant could read the phone book and make it sound like Shakespeare.

It would be the most overacted phonebook in history...

Why was Ten so...threatened by the fact Eleven's sonic* was bigger than his? Surely the idea is to pack as much as possible into as slender a screwdriver as possible?

*God, I can't believe I've picked up that HORRIBLE New Who habit of referring to it as the 'sonic'.

'[Moffat] also disclosed that the BBC had considered pulling the plug on Doctor Who after David Tennant left, fearing that nobody else could fill his shoes.'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

••••••• HELL!

(Oh, and there's interesting stuff about female Doctors and Dalek sink-plungers, but basically...DAVID TENNANT NEARLY KILLED DOCTOR WHO!)

Though come to THINK of it...maybe it was all a brilliant bluff? Cos Tennant was, when all's said and done, a True Fan. If him leaving would have KILLED Who...he'd've STAYED, wouldn't he?

Forever.

This is probably the best parody of Doctor Who I've ever seen! So creative and so funny! The Daleks nearly steal the show!

http://youtu.be/9WBqHdI5Bdw

What? What? WHAT? No dancing Captain Jack? And they call that a parody?

A dancing Captain Jack!? Well, would have been better than Miracle Day.

my enduring memory of Tennant is his self-indulgent send-off ("my reward") and lack of fortitude meeting his fate compared to both Eccleston ("you were fantastic... and so was I!") and Smith ("we all change... that's good, you've got to keep moving").

When the ENTIRE UNIVERSE joins with you in sobbing out its eyes that you're leaving so soon, it stops being quite so self-indulgent.

And I don't know what you're complaining about vis-a-vis the reward. It could have been a LOT worse - SJA: Death of the Doctor revealed that he'd gone back to see EVERY Companion. Not just the New Who ones.

SJA: Death of the Doctor revealed that he'd gone back to see EVERY Companion. Not just the New Who ones.

"Hello there, Adric. No, no, no, it's me all right. Change of face, like after Logopolis. Thought I'd just pop by and see how you were. Still crashing, eh? Right, don't let me keep you. See you around."

We NEED to see this.

How about him in a spacesuit waving to Katerina as she goes out the airlock in Dalek Masterplan? ;-)

(Emily: ...and IF ONLY you hadn't ACCIDENTALLY said 'David Tennant')

I'm sorry but David Tennant's Doctor was a self indulgent spoiled jackass. Veruca Salt without the fur coat, training bra and ladies' earrings.

Yeah, it's APPALLINGLY self-indulgent to sacrifice your life for some octogenarian you barely know. And ATTEMPT to sacrifice your life to give SONTARANS a second chance you KNOW they won't take. And to download 4,022 people you've never met. What a git.

David Tennant has been cast as Zebediah Kilgrave (The Purple Man) in the forthcoming Marvel/Netflix series AKA Jessica Jones.

I suggest Emily at least be seated when she watches this particular video....

What if I'm the Person Who Played the Doctor for 35 Seconds?

We ARE lucky. We may not FEEL that way during this Gaping Chasm Of Despair Year, but we DID get a MODERATE AMOUNT of Tennanty goodness and we have the DVDs (and broken hearts) to prove it.

I would probably still have got a Big Finish series out of it, so you know...

Hmmmm, I'm not sure if THAT should go in the plus column.

He'd just get paid for doing 'em. He wouldn't have to listen to the finished article, or anything...

Davison in DWM: 'David Tennant never watched Matt Smith. Until he worked with Matt on the 50th, David hadn't watched a single episode. It's not because you don't like it; it's just because you know what it's like to make it, and it's very hard to watch someone else do it' - that CAN'T be true, can it! Tennant's a True Fan! Plus MOFFAT said one of the problems with signing him up to Day was because he'd watched Matt and considered him the current Doctor. But then, Davison IS Tennant's father-in-law and maybe Tennant couldn't SAY to The Moff's face that 'Yeah, I stopped bothering as soon as you took over'? But MY GOD what a price to pay for becoming the Doctor! The ULTIMATE price! *Sadly crosses 'becoming Thirteenth Doctor' off list of career plans*

David Tennant, Mark Gatiss and Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke are among new voice talent joining Thunderbirds Are Go for the second half of its second season coming soon in September.

Title sequence of the new DuckTales starring David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKSU82afy1w

Why does this Abomination keep singing 'Doctor Who'? Just to rub salt into Tennant's gaping wounds?

DuckTales short: Meet Scrooge starring David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNdCFptI6k

Here Tennant is back in a certain familiar territory.

The Tenth Doctor is a bit of a zany, wacky, insufferable know-it-all pr*ck who cries all the time and won’t stop apologising or reminding you he killed his own people

You say that like it's a BAD thing.

DuckTales (2017) 1.9 is The Impossible Summit of Mt Neverrest!
Scrooge McDuck is voiced by David Tennant and he previously been on something impossible in his first season as the Doctor in The Impossible Planet.
However the said Impossible titles narrowly missed having the same episode placing in their aforementioned first seasons.
Whereas The Impossible Summit of Mt Neverrest! is the ninth episode of DuckTales (2017) first season, The Impossible Planet is the eighth episode of David Tennant’s first season as the Doctor.
Both Impossible places are near phenomena. The Impossible Planet is near a black hole whilst The Impossible Summit of Mt Neverrest has wormholes around it.

Got reminded that April 18 is David Tennant’s birthday.
For the reruns on ABC (Australia) it has long past the Tennant era but fortuitously on this April 18 2018, it showed The Day of the Doctor in which Tennant briefly returned as the Tenth Doctor.
What a birthday present from the ABC to Tennant.

Smith and Jones would have been a better birthday present. His fringe is INSANELY MAGNIFICENT in that, whereas in Day of the Doctor it's just some limp boring thing that I have the hideous suspicion ruined the entire story for me...

'Got reminded that April 18 is David Tennant’s birthday.'

And that reminded me that Peter Capaldi just turned 60 on April 14th, and Peter Davison turned 67 (!!!) on April 13!

There's a really funny story where the Tennant Doctor reads bad Tenth Doctor fan fiction. ("I did *what* to Rose with my "talented tongue"?! No woman would like it if i did that to their nipple!").

DuckTales (2017) 1.13 McMystery at McDuck McManor! had Huey saying about someone turning off the lights.
The Tenth Doctor story Silence In The Library/Forest of the Dead had Proper Dave, “Hey, who turned out the lights.”
Perhaps it is no coincidence that Scrooge McDuck in this series of DuckTales is played by Tenth Doctor himself David Tennant.
Perhaps coincidentally this DuckTales episode came on May 25 2018 just six days before the tenth anniversary of Silence In The Library on May 31.

DuckTales (2017) 1.17 From the Confidential Case Files of Agent 22! revealed that Scrooge McDuck (David Tennant) was an agent of S.H.U.S.H.
S.H.U.S.H. is a parody of Marvel Comics’ S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.H.I.E.L.D. has become familiar to today’s viewers due to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D has been said to be like Torchwood.
This rather makes Tennant as a S.H.U.S.H. agent kind opposite to his time as the Doctor due to Torchwood.
Torchwood was founded by Queen Victoria because of her encounter with the Doctor and the Doctor does not like Torchwood due to its methods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e_DHreVUyM

Well, it has to be admitted that the 'horse' line suits Tennant better than the Hartnell/Cushing-Abomination Doctor...

David Tennant is back as the lead for a Christmas Special this year but is not for Doctor Who.
It is instead as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales.

As good a place as any to post this.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpofP_HHMFn/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=wx8fiir5ivfq

I am so in love.

Even with...THAT JUMPER and THAT UMBRELLA...

That's just an edited image with Tennant's head on McCoy's body. A quick google reverse-image search shows the original
https://fsmedia.imgix.net/72/82/a0/fc/a567/4940/b9ab/e5b08ea6d942/sylvestermccoyjpg.jpeg
On the other hand, I do have a picture of Tennant dressed as the Fifth Doctor

David Tennant is appearing with Jessica Hynes in a series called “There She Goes” as parents coping with a mentally disabled child. The action flips between 2015 and 2006. His character is a Star Wars fan.
-- Natalie

DT makes sure the pensioner does the dangerous stuff...…

https://twitter.com/georgiaEtennant/status/1074325552906035200

An article about where David got his last name from.

About the Doctor Who themed adverts that got Tennant into hot water:

The BBC have to own the Whoniverse characters to protect themselves from say... a picture turning up of the Tenth Doctor recommending a quack medicine (Blackadder: "Better a quack, than a ducky!").

Tennant could have probably done the Virgin adverts in his own suit (depending on his contract) so if the product he was hawking went wrong that would have been David's problem and not the BBC's.

DuckTales (2017) 2.10 The 87 Cent Solution! had David Tennant (Scrooge) back in Doctor Who territory as it involved the stoppage of time done by Scrooge’s enemy Glomgold.

Started the mini-series Des starring David Tennant as real-life serial killer Dennis "Des" Nilsen.
Of the actors here who has guest starred in the Whoniverse includes Ron Cook who had worked with Tennant before in Doctor Who in The Idiot's Lantern.

In an unfortunate coincidence the real Des was born in 1945....on November 23.

David Tennant is Romeo in Romeo and Juliet 2000:
https://imgur.com/a/J8NzlLa

Saw the animated movie Ferdinand (2017) featuring the voice of David Tennant.

Happy 50th to David Tennant!

David Tennant reading The Wolves In The Wall to his child:
https://imgur.com/a/5PKfFB9

On facebook, DWM remembers David Tennant's cover debut as the Doctor:
https://imgur.com/a/OKE1vBw

A ten-year wait though...

shorturl.at/detBV

Well, I tried to avoid this. It worked at first.

https://scontent-ssn1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/314497621_493648596139793_6079407721844719397_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_e15_fr_q65&_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=110474&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=LxICc-CtklwAX9fzDXP&_nc_oc=AQlVVyHhh4fbL6EQVkL0j6wcRIwJo5cZkRCmFesw9WUrcrd-dG4NhK4VGU4PWYLDXhF4WULF4LzHyoOrSao4e4IM&_nc_ht=scontent-ssn1-1.xx&oh=00_AfDj6gbPKNWh02gSx5NUvCnVdgI5HDvnG1xYyZ_73kj89A&oe=636BFC74

Awww, it is a thing of beauty...

Paraphrasing a well known starship captain:

Too much of anything, Emily, even Tennant, isn't necessarily a good thing.

This is obviously not true.

And I demand the Hand gets its own starring role in our Seventieth...

For those interested in lesser programs, David Tennant stars in the 2021 tv series Around the World in 80 Days. I have watched the first episode, and I do believe I will watch the coming ones.

Here is a little more info about the series.

I caught some pieces of that... ugh. Wasn't impressed. The Jackie Chan version was, at least, fun to watch.

Note to scriptwriters and filmmakers you can combine serious ideas with fun. Your viewers will appreciate it.

This is the problem I had addressed about having two David Tennant threads of which one to post when it comes to his non-Who work.

Perhaps as a suggestion any non-Who work he has done since becoming the Fourteenth Doctor be posted at the 14 thread,

Having said that Around the World in 80 Days does belong in this thread.

David Tennant wants to believe:
https://imgur.com/a/fOC4JYF


I am putting this here because I first got this in 2020 before it would be revealed that Tennant would also be 14.

How did Emily miss her Beloved David Tennant's 53rd birthday yesterday???
Better send some 3-D glasses to him to make up for your mistake!

Pah! The traitor gets no gifts from me!

Betraying n'abandoning me AGAIN!

To sit in a garden with MEL BUSH!!

Gasp! Shock! Horror!
Has the Mighty Tennant actually dropped low in your favourite Doctors list?!

To be honest I haven't really considered if Fourteen should have a different position on my list/in my heart than Ten...of course I love them both VERY MUCH but there's no denying that him choosing MEL over, ooh, say...ME...is very very painful.