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April 18, 2005
10th Time Lord
David Tennant has now been officially named the new Doctor Who. Billie Piper is to stay on as the new Who companion... bring back K-9 too, please! (via Shatnerian)
Tennant, 33, will become the 10th Time Lord when filming starts on the new series in Cardiff this summer. He is taking over from Christopher Eccleston, who announced he was quitting last month after only one series as the Doctor. Tennant, who will star alongside assistant Billie Piper, said he was "delighted, excited and honoured".
Update: Better make that the 11th Time Lord. SciFiDaily explains.
The BBC has Sylvester “Doc Eight” McCoy regenerate into Eccleston, who becomes, according to the BBC, the ninth Doctor. Ummmm, sorry, but the ninth Doctor is Paul “Alien 3” McGann (see official BBC book above), who starred in the underrated 1996 Fox Network TV movie. And it showed McCoy, who portrayed the Doctor for the movie’s first 15 minutes, regenerate into McGann. Auntie Beeb, you cannot cast someone in the titular role of a world renown sci-fi/fantasy series and make them part of the canon and then suddenly pretend like that never happened--canon is, by definition, CANON!
Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 18, 2005 09:14 AM
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There is no way they will bring back K-9. Its bad enough many of the monsters out-act Billie...it would be really sad if the robot side-kick did it as well.
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at April 18, 2005 08:14 PM