Robert Carlyle To Be Next Doctor Who?December 28th, 2006 in TV |
News from not always reliable The Sun newspaper is that David Tennant will give up the Tardis and quit as Dr. Who in the near future. The show got a Bond style reboot when Christopher Ecclestone and his leather jacket took the job in 2005, but he quit to be replaced by Tennant after one season.But now Tennant is off, most likely to pursue a film career, The Sun are claiming that, and I quote:
Producers are keen to get another Scot, Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle, 45, to step in.
For those who don’t know, the great thing about Dr. Who is that the change of actor is written into the show as a “regeneration”, so there are never any problems with continuity. Plus each new Doctor is a chance for the show to take a new direction.
No reason Carlyle (pictured) wouldn’t do a great job, and he’s already achieved enough not to be typecast by the role (which was always a possibility with Tennant). Maybe we’ll get a Begbie style violent psychopath for a Doctor this time. Maybe not though. Carlyle (or someone else) will be the 11th Doctor, and the 3rd since the franchise was rebooted.
The only man the BBC can’t afford to lose is screenwriter Russell T. Davies, who more or less resurrected the whole thing from it’s campy past and made it relevant again.
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January 17th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
The show wasn’t rebooted in 2005. The continuity from the previous series and the 1996 television movie was carried over.
In the recent Batman Begins and Casino Royale movies the continuity of both the Batman and Bond movies were jettisoned and those series.
David Tennant hasn’t announced he is leaving and the fourth season of the show has yet to be green lit.
In my opinion the one person the show could do with loosing is Russell T Davies, whose stories though sometimes full of wonderful character moments hardly ever leave Earth (surely a mistake in a series about an adventurer in time and space), have massive lapses in internal logic and rely too much on that most lazy of plot devises Deus ex machina.
The best episodes of the show (post 2005) were written by established science fiction writers and not Russell T. Davies.
He is a talented producer but has a self proclaimed apprehension for writing science fiction.
So why is he connected to Doctor Who?
April 12th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I like Russell T. Davies and David Tennant! But being a Scot I don’t mind if Rob is the new Doctor it will be nice to have another Scot!!!!
June 29th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
david tenneant is a hard act to follow i would suggest someone completely different maybe stephen fry