The Dr Who thread

[Matrixxx]

Coo

I hope she stays, I like billie, she fits well into the role, and surpasses it

[HGFB]

She'll have to leave eventually. I think that point will be crucial for the series. They have to get somone the viewers will like as much but with a very different backstory.

[Matrixxx]

That goes without saying.. but who ? hopefully NOT another Bonnie Langford - I hope Tennant stays in the role for a while too, I find it hard to watch Ecclestone now, seems so dusty and dry compared to Tennant.

I watched "Gone on 60 Seconds" the other day, and all I could see was Dr Who stoving some guys head in with knuckledusters - odd what a stereotype can do for you.. maybe it was the leather coat that did it.

Despite initial misgivings, I really like Tennant in the who role, it's like he was born to play him... crazy it sounds I know, but there it is.

And when do we get to see Barcelona anyways

[HGFB]

Final ratings for the Age of Steel are out

BARB today released the final ratings for week ending 21 May, which see the BBC One transmission of The Age of Steel rising from its overnight figure of 6.93 million to a consolidated final ratings figure of 7.63 million viewers. The episode's timeshift figure of 0.7m is the highest of the week, with various episodes of Coronation Street, EastEnders, New Tricks and The Bill all getting a timeshift of 0.4m. The episode remains second in the chart for Saturday 20 May, behind the annual Eurovision Song Contest, seventh for the week on BBC One, fifteenth for the week across UK television, and the eighth most watched show of the week; the programme's earlier timeslot for that week left it trailing several episodes of ITV1's Emmerdale for the first time this year. On BBC Three, Doctor Who Confidential on 21 May heads the BARB chart with 0.63m viewers, with the Sunday repeat of The Age of Steel in second place with 0.62m viewers.

http://www.gallifreyone.com/news.php#ne ... EydvJBSWJG

Final figures are not yet available for the episode that provoked Media Guardian's article, The Idiot's Lantern, although its bank holiday weekend overnights (6.32m, 1st/19th) were also higher than last year's overnights (also on a bank holiday weekend) for "The Doctor Dances" (6.17m, 1st/18th). The pattern established by Series One is continuing, with the ratings dips following the same trends as last year but with smaller actual dips. BBC Three's repeat ratings continue to show an upwards trend whenever the BBC One debut has a lower audience, suggesting that the story Media Guardian may have missed is that a similar-sized total audience is making use of digital reruns and home recording each week to maintain an average total weekly audience of, currently, c.9.47m. (The same - widely ignored - pattern can generally be observed whenever one of the main soaps performs disappointingly in its main showing.) All of which is a roundabout way of saying that Doctor Who's UK success actually seems to be continuing, and suggestions that viewers are tiring of it are somewhat exaggerated...

Meanwhile, The Idiot's Lantern has also continued the series' consistent run of very strong AI figures, with the episode scoring an excellent 84 on Saturday, still among the higher AIs since the series' return, beaten by only three of 2005's episodes, though not as high as the 86 scored by both episodes of the preceding Cybermen story.

[Dreadz]

That goes without saying.. but who ? hopefully NOT another Bonnie Langford

I vote for Carol Vorderman, she'd be ace

Dreadz
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[Dr Morbeus]

A bit of T&A if you pardon the pun is what the doctor ordered !

[juice]

This seemed like the most appropriate place to pop something like this...

A local charity shop has just had large gobs of Dr Who material dropped off, and is happily displaying it all in the shop window:

(click to bigger it up, to use me mum's terminology )

If anyone's interested in any of it, let me know (bearing in mind that I'm travelling this weekend, and hence won't be able to nip over there till Tuesday at the earliest). Prices seem to be in the fiver range for the books and annuals - not mega-cheap, but if you're wanting to fill a gap in your collection...

[SimonB]

July launch in Australia for series 2 now confirmed...


SimonB

[Matrixxx]

That goes without saying.. but who ? hopefully NOT another Bonnie Langford

I vote for Carol Vorderman, she'd be ace

Dreadz
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- She'd out-do the doc as far as maths are concerned, and she could keep up with the jargon too ! - fraid she'd need killing through the face with a welding torch in her first episode. The doc's next assistant needs to be a goth/rock chick - or - maybe - a page 3 brainless bimbo type. NO WAIT - sorry we already had Bonnie Langford ....

[HGFB]

Bonnie Langford is a brainless page 3 type? Dude. Get some glasses

[Matrixxx]

Bonnie Langford is a brainless page 3 type? Dude. Get some glasses

Ok, loose the page 3 bit

[stx]

That goes without saying.. but who ? hopefully NOT another Bonnie Langford

I vote for Carol Vorderman, she'd be ace

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No, that was Sophie Aldred.

[WiteWulf]

Charlotte Church...she'd make a cracking assistant, I reckon...



...and she's Welsh, so Russell T. Davies is bound to consider it!

(standard disclaimer applies, it's Friday afternoon and I've had a liquid lunch and may not necessarily be talking sense.)

[HGFB]

Shame she can't act.

[random]

Shame she can't act.

To be fair, Billie can't either.