Good Christ O'Riley. Both quite awful.

I simply MUST inform you all that the best 'Who related song is THIS



Heehee, that's funny - my exact comment to my brother during the finale of last night's Dr Who Christmas Special was "bite my shiny metal ass!"

hehee. Well, the one I posted was purely a comedic song, done by the Chaser team. (Look up The Chaser on YouTube if you're not familiar with their work. Funny guys.)



hahaha! Hey, I remember that one!

Feel the love.
dolfyn.

I enjoyed it mostly but it showed me how glad I am that David Morrissey won't be the next Doctor. Great actor but I'd be bored with him within two episodes.

The plot that wasn't about the Doctors was a bit thin - as in I can hardly remember why the Cybermen were even in it, three days later - and I agree with Glenn that the appearance of the giant Cybermonster-ship-thing was a cause of great hilarity.

Without doubt.
I have the 12" vinyl single of that song.
It rocks.

Fans of the Hot Fuzz soundtrack might notice the sample of "Blockbuster" in there too.



Oh and I liked the Christmas episode.

The new Doctor is to be announced tomorrow!:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7807742.stm

I enjoyed the Christmas episode - I thought the plot was a little melodramatic, but it kind of suited the Victorian setting to have a melodrama! Morrissey was great, but I don't think he got to really stretch himself that much which was a little bit of a waste.

I was watching Star Trek: First Contact last night, and had a thought; after years of ribbing Trek fans that the Borg are dopplegangers of the Cybermen, they can now take the piss out of Who, because let's face it, Hartigan was a blatant rip-off of the Borg Queen. Albeit not a very good one.

^^ Oh behave . . .

I'm wondering if the timing of this announcement is a deliberate attempt to grab media based headlines from ITV's Demons?

Sounds about right to me. I'm wondering if the Confidential is going to show any 'new' footage, or just be cobbled from past shows. Probably the latter, I'd think.

I don't know this for sure, but I think it may be an edited down version of the Confidential they showed on Christmas Day on BBC Three (the full length version of which is being shown again at 8pm on BBC Three tonight).

Interesting, wonder if it'll really be Paterson Joseph?

No its not because Simon Pegg is narrating the one on Saturday (tomorrow) and Tony Head did the Xmas Day one besides BBC 3 news has just announced that it will be revealing who the 11th Doctor will be tomorrow too.

Coincidently, two more names have popped up....James Frain and Chiwetel Ejiofor had made the shortlist apparently for 11th Doc.

It was just a guess on my part, hence the "I don't know this for sure" comment, but the write ups for both programs in the Radio Times are pretty similar.



I've also heard Chiwetel Ejiofor's name being mentioned elsewhere, I wouldn't be unhappy with that as a result!

Can't say I'm familiar with James Frain at all, but I'd be more than happy with Chewie. If Paterson didn't get it, of course.

So, BBC says 'him or her', 'he or she', 'actor or actress' ... and DT says 'chap' and 'he/his'.

And I can't get Dr Who Confidential out here so will have to wait for a website to spill the beans.

It's on BBC One! (5.25pm!).

I know. I'm in a house that doesn't get the BBC and out of the country so can't watch online. The TV aerial is crap, otherwise we'd be able to get Dr Who in Spanish!

Still, I'm sure by the time I get back from the beach or wherever, there'll be something on t'internet telling me what the rest of the world already knows.

Well, if you are going to be poncing around in parts foreign!

Matt Smith seems to be the bookies favourite at the moment!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/partyanimals/

He looks like Rocky from the film Mask!

I don't think I'm old enough for Dr Who to be younger than me...

God, I hope it's not him.

I have a horrible feeling that it will be.

I wouldn't be too upset with him as the Doctor. He was really good in The Ruby In The Smoke. That's not saying that I would prefer him to Paterson Joseph or Chewitel Ejiofor, just that I wouldn't hate him to be cast.

I just Wiki'd Matt Smith, and he's just 18 months older than me. That's too young.

I'm watching the programme now and they've just said the new guy is 26.

Must be this Matt Smith guy...

I'm disappointed. It'd appear that looking like a member of Busted is what they were looking for.

Who are they trying to appeal to with him. If he is going to be all young at least get someone who doesn't look like an Easter island statue.

I've not seen him in anything else, but I prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. He certainly seems to have the right energy for the role anyway.

ETA:

I wonder how long it will be before the Mr Smith comments and jokes etc start . . .

I'm a bit disappointed it isn't Paterson Joseph but it'll be interesting to see how this pans out. At least it'll please the people who were claiming that you wouldn't be able to do any historical stories with a black Doctor. For as we know, history is all about middle class white people.

Why is he so young though? That isn't fair.

Only judging on a couple of clips they showed on the programme, but he can do doctor-ish.

And he has an unusual look about him too, rather than going for the handsome type like tennant.

Like Raven, I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt.

It is a little disconcerting to find myself in a world where I'm now over ten years older than the person playing The Doctor . . .

He better get a decent haircut. He looks like a nuts reader with that twat-style he has now.

Didn't you get the memo?

I have nothing against the guy personally, I just can't see him in the role, as I could with say, Eccleston or Tennant. We'll see, but I won't be looking forward to the next full series as I had been.

Well I can't say I'm pleased with that choice. I'll watch the first one he's in but if it's shitty I don't think I'll bother with the rest - I don't find him very likable at all.

It's not as good a choice as they could have gone with, but I'm optimistic about Matt Smith in the role. I've seen him in quite a few things and he's always impressed me, most obviously in Ruby In The Smoke, which he was really great in. Should be interesting.

I think the thing that worries me about him at the moment is the fact that he had no eyebrows. It's really the one thing I ask from any Doctor.

However, from previous form he seems to be more than competent and if the scripts are good then he should be fine. Dr Who casting always seems to confound expectations so I'm hoping for a fairly entertaining series next year.

I think the fact that Steven Moffat is confident in him is the strongest indicator of his potential.

He should definitely get a haircut, though.

He could stick some of the hair trimmings above his eyes thus giving the appearance of eyebrows. That would sort it.

He looks like a cunt.

I believe I covered that with the phrase 'Nuts reader'.

Tell us what you are really thinking, you shouldn't beat around the bush like that . . .

I'll reserve judgement for now, but I'll be honest, I didn't think that Tennant would be any good when they first announced him, so that shows what I know.

I trust Moffat, and I'm sure his tenure will be largely excellent. I don't see the public warming to this child though. I give him two years before he's pushed.

My parents (Who fans from day 1) aren't impressed that the Doctor is going to be younger than any of their children. Not at all sure how this choice will play out with the older audience demographics.

I agree he needs a haircut. I've not watched the programmes he's been in before - apart from perhaps one episode of Party Animals in which he clearly made no impact whatsoever on me. So I will reserve judgement on his suitability.

As a direct result of Tennants face, if the new Doctor isn't beautiful I don't care. This was not my logic as a child watching Dr Who but alas, I am a grown woman now and unless I can easily drift into some sort of Doctor and glasses involving fantasy when it gets boring, I am not at all interested...

He is odd looking, and the first doctor younger than me which is just weird. I shall watch with interest, though.

You know you're getting old when Doctors start looking like kids to you, but 700 year-old ones looking like kids?

Sky Text owes you an apology as they said it was Pegg who was narrating the confidential and not Head, damn them!

I guess the only way we will know if he (Matt) will work as the Doctor is when we see him in action. I had my reservations about having Tate as the new companion but she grew on me, maybe this Matt will too. He'll never replace David though!

From what I can tell, this appears to be the minority opinion right now. As a few people have said, Moffatt seems to like him so that's in his favour. And true, Davison was young, but he was an established actor when he took on the role. But I'm finding it hard to warm to the idea of Smith at the moment.

He is keeping that hair for the role, I hear. And I imagine growing some eyebrows is asking too much.

Do not want!