Friday, September 26, 2003
Doctor Who returns. Hmm, it'll be interesting to see if this works. I was a fan as a young'un, although the decade in the wilderness followed by that awful TV movie with Paul McGann rather soured me. I hope they ignore that and choose a different actor. Names are being bandied around like Richard E. Grant or Alan Davies (presumerably for his superficial likeness to Tom Baker when he was Doctor) but I'd prefer it if they didn't get a big name for the part, someone known but not well known, as most of the previous Doctors were when they got the role.
It's a bit daft that it's taken this long to organise as every single department in the BBC has known for years that Doctor Who was one of their most marketable commodities except the one department that was responsible for saying 'yes' or 'no' to it being made. Even now it seems odd that it's BBC Wales making it, hopefully that's no more significant than BBC Manchester making Red Dwarf. As I can't be bothered to avoid making the obvious pun, time will tell...
It's a bit daft that it's taken this long to organise as every single department in the BBC has known for years that Doctor Who was one of their most marketable commodities except the one department that was responsible for saying 'yes' or 'no' to it being made. Even now it seems odd that it's BBC Wales making it, hopefully that's no more significant than BBC Manchester making Red Dwarf. As I can't be bothered to avoid making the obvious pun, time will tell...
