Doctor Who

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Aug 02, 2013 14:01

Even better is the letter from Muhammed Ali on the same page!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Curiosity wrote:

Even better is the letter from Muhammed Ali on the same page!

x a million. Jaw dropping letter. You wonder just how one of the worlds greatest sportsman came to write to the letters page of the Radio Times! Fake? Did someone who was mates with Ali see the mentioned article, get pissed off and get Ali to write a defence? Fascinating either way.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

MOAR PROOFS!

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His credit in WWZ!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Tweet of the year:

Quote:

Louis Barfe ‏@LFBarfe 1h
The Doctor casting hasn't been finalised. Moffat found Noel Edmonds' Whirly Wheel during the TV Centre clearout and the shortlist is on it.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

zaphod79 wrote:

Wullie wrote:

It's been leaked...

Radio times page with a letter from that person age 10

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http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-07-31/doctor-who-read-the-fan-letter-bookies-favourite-peter-capaldi-wrote-to-radio-times-aged-15

Doctor Who: read the fan letter bookies' favourite Peter Capaldi wrote to Radio Times aged 15

If the Thick of It star and avid Who fan really is in the frame to replace Matt Smith, he'll find it very difficult to say no...

Yesterday, Peter Capaldi's name entered the frame as the 2-1 favourite to play the next Doctor, the 12th or possibly 13th Doctor (depending on how we'll factor John Hurt's incarnation into the official sequence).

How likely is such a high-profile casting? Despite Steven Moffat's wish for an older Time Lord, the former The Thick of It star's availability and how much dosh such a top-drawer actor might cost the BBC, the most important factor that could swing it is that – like David Tennant before him – Peter Capaldi is a Doctor Who fan. And I mean a HUGE Doctor Who fan.

He was a key figure in the world of fandom in the 1970s, even pre-dating the formation of DWAS (the Doctor Who Appreciation Society) in 1976. Aged 15, he pinned his colours to the mast in this letter published in Radio Times in February 1974.

http://www.radiotimes.com/uploads/image ... 34582.jpeg

Earlier this year I met Capaldi on the set of An Adventure in Space and Time, the forthcoming drama about Doctor Who's inception. He is friends with Mark Gatiss and had taken time out of his schedule to visit the studios in Wimbledon. We chatted briefly while watching scenes being filmed on, let's just say, a historical setting, and on the lovingly recreated Tardis set. We were both thrilled at what we saw and I could see then that he remains as big a fan today as he was four decades ago.

If Peter Capaldi's name truly is in the frame and he's offered the part, surely he'd find it irresistible.

He calls himself a fan? He called The Doctor "Dr Who" FFS!

RBR2 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 02, 2013 20:10

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Trooper wrote:

He calls himself a fan? He called The Doctor "Dr Who" FFS!

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

There's a frankly astonishing story knocking around at the moment that when Mark Thompson got wind that Michael Grade was going to be made DG, he tried to cancel the new series of Doctor Who. It was only other executives standing up to the spineless streak of shit that it wasn't abandoned ahead of the 2005 re-launch.

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

I'd be really disappointed if the 12th Doctor is who it's now heavily rumoured to be, simply because that would mean we've been spoilered already. Seems a bit too much like back in 2005 when swathes of the media were claiming that Bill Nighy was definitely going to be the Doctor before Christopher Ecclescake. The Matt Smith reveal was a genuine surprise, and as a viewer, I just want to be surprised again.

Malc · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 0:10

If there was a way I could not find out who the new who was until it happened in the show, I'd do it!

I didn't even want to know there was going to be a regeneration...

Malc

Ps hi from rainy Cornwall!

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

Malc wrote:

I didn't even want to know there was going to be a regeneration...

I realise how difficult it would be but it would really be the best thing.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogdrwho/articles/Paul_McGann_is_the_twelfth_doctor

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You can put anything in the URL

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12340

chinnyhill10 wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogdrwho/articles/Paul_McGann_is_the_twelfth_doctor

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You can put anything in the URL

Haha, time to have fun on Twitter

Kern · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 19:39

Curiosity wrote:

Even better is the letter from Muhammed Ali on the same page!

Ok, I didn't open the spoiler link until this evening, but, wow!

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Kern wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

Even better is the letter from Muhammed Ali on the same page!

Ok, I didn't open the spoiler link until this evening, but, wow! Fuck

FTFY

Anonymous X · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2046

Anonymous X wrote:

I'd be really disappointed if the 12th Doctor is who it's now heavily rumoured to be, simply because that would mean we've been spoilered already.

I'm really disappointed. For that reason! I wanted to be shocked, not have a media rumour verified.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

Fan-fucking-tactic choice.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

I am very pleased with this result. Couldn't be better.

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

I was expecting it not to be him because I wanted it to be him.

But it is him.

YES.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12340

Having only ever seen him play one character, I have no idea what he'll be like as Doctor Who, therefore I cannot possibly comment on this casting decision.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12340

Except to say that it should have been a woman.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 20:48

He looked a bit scared by it all on TV.

No idea how it will turn out, but I'm glad that he'll be older and a bit different to Smith (and Tennant).

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38668

Is he going to be Scottish?

RBR2 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 21:36

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

mrak wrote:

Can someone please change the sub-title for this thread to "The EWWW GROSS OLD MAN EWWWWW in the blue box"?

The fans are behind you

https://twitter.com/kreans/status/36410 ... 00/photo/1

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Malcolm Tucker Doctor is already in the TARDIS going back through times making the older Doctors more sweary:

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Did you know that when Patrick Troughton was cast as the 2nd Doctor they seriously considered having him play the character "blacked up".

Mentski · **Joined:** 17th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 86

zaphod79 wrote:

mrak wrote:

Can someone please change the sub-title for this thread to "The EWWW GROSS OLD MAN EWWWWW in the blue box"?

The fans are behind you

https://twitter.com/kreans/status/36410 ... 00/photo/1

It gets better:

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38668

zaphod79 wrote:

mrak wrote:

Can someone please change the sub-title for this thread to "The EWWW GROSS OLD MAN EWWWWW in the blue box"?

The fans are behind you

https://twitter.com/kreans/status/36410 ... 00/photo/1

Called it.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:10

Given that the exact same thing happened when John Hurt was revealed as The Doctor, that's not exactly a surprise.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Curiosity wrote:

Given that the exact same thing happened when John Hurt was revealed as The Doctor, that's not exactly a surprise.

Agreed , and I'm really looking forward to the new doctor and what he can bring - I think one of the key parts was Moffats almost final words in that reveal thing which was 'Not Matt Smith' , so we dont have someone doing the same thing we have someone who looks and acts totally different but underneath it all is still "The Doctor"

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:49

A great choice.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Children going on Youtube today are going to be learning lots of new swearwords. How long before the inevitable Daily Mail article?

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Children going on Youtube today are going to be learning lots of new swearwords. How long before the inevitable Daily Mail article?

"I promise that I'll never say cunt to an 8 year old girl again" :DD

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Rufus Hounds blog about last night and apologizing for getting stuff wrong

http://rufushound.wordpress.com/2013/08 ... -the-head/

And

The strange young / old Peter Capaldi

http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/index.php/ ... r-capaldi/

TheCookie197 · **Joined:** 23rd Sep, 2010 **Posts:** 729

It's kinda funny - They all are saying 'AN OLD PERSON SHOULD NEVER PLAY THE DOCTOR' when in the Classic Who (almost) all of the actors were in their late 40 or early-to-mid 50's when they stepped into the TARDIS.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 15:07

Cookie197 wrote:

It's kinda funny - They all are saying 'AN OLD PERSON SHOULD NEVER PLAY THE DOCTOR' when in the Classic Who (almost) all of the actors were in their late 40 or early-to-mid 50's when they stepped into the TARDIS.

The kids are all saying that because they've never known an 'old' Doctor.

Capaldi is the same age as Hartnell was when he was first cast, but Hartnell seemed a LOT older than that.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

zaphod79 wrote:

Rufus Hounds blog about last night and apologizing for getting stuff wrong

He didn't do anything wrong. That Grant Mitchell on the other hand acted like a complete cock:

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 15:12

Cribbins said "Jon Baker" last night instead of "Jon Pertwee", but no-one pulled him up on that.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 15:14

GazChap wrote:

Cribbins said "Jon Baker" last night instead of "Jon Pertwee", but no-one pulled him up on that.

Cribbins is an 84 year old man. I bet he gets the names of his children wrong.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

GazChap wrote:

Cribbins said "Jon Baker" last night instead of "Jon Pertwee", but no-one pulled him up on that.

I think we were all too enthralled in the definitely never wheeled out at every opportunity story of how he auditioned for the 3rd Doctor. I was captivated. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

kalmar · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 15:53

Peter Capaldi might be my favourite actor of all time, but for things like Local Hero rather than The Thick Of It, which I thought was a tad over-done.

So anyway, I'll have to watch fucking doctor who now

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Sophie Aldred on BBC Breakfast

http://blogtorwho.blogspot.co.uk/2013/0 ... r.html?m=1

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Yep, total 100% Barker:

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 23:02

Wonder what his 'Doc Prop' will be? Sonic Syringe?

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

Easy.

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Sonic Sweardriver.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 23:14

I hope he teams up with Buckfast Rogers.

Wullie · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 6183

Wonder if he'll ever defeat Dalek Salmond or Stavros fae Magic Kebab who always pishes on his chips.

miki · **Joined:** 30th Apr, 2011 **Posts:** 1458 **Location:** NL

I don't know who this man is, but from this thread you guys make me think the've cast Billy Connoly

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