David Tennant is quitting as Dr. Who

[groovychk]

David Tennant is leaving after the 2009 "season".

:(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm

Comments

[time-lordy.livejournal.com]

it's always sad. I cried in 1996 when #7 bought it. And at all the others I caught on video, DVD, or rerun.

it happens.

[drkbish.livejournal.com]

Eh, it happens. To be perfectly honest, Tennant is technically one of the longer lasting Doctors, if you count time on-screen. (I'm obviously not counting books or audio adventures here.) He's tied with Pertwee, and only Tom Baker has been at it longer. All other Doctors except for Colin Baker and McGann had three years.

[drkbish.livejournal.com]

Er, doh. I meant Colin Baker, McGann, and Eccleston.

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

NOOO! :( He survived a Dalek deathray for this? This will be almost as bad as losing Sylvester McCoy.

http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/67049579/1832523 <-- Saw this, thought of you.

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

yeah :-(

excellent icon - thanks!

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

I am unhappy. Damnit, if he was going to leave, why not do it at the end of last season? Now it just seems cheap.

It's like Kirk - if he'd died saving the president at the end of Undiscovered Country, it would have been a powerful sendoff. But instead he gets this very strange story in Generations. Whatthehell?

I hear Paterson Joseph may play Eleven - The Marquis de Carabas from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, but he also played Rodrick in the new season one. He's BBC, he's a good actor, he's cute, they could do a lot worse for Eleven.

"Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed?"
(puzzled) "No."
-- The brothers Mister Croup and Mister Vandemar

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

BBC Entertainment reporter Lizo Mzimba made a report on Tennant's departure which ran on BBC news programmes over the course of yesterday, citing Paterson Joseph (previously seen in the series as Rodrick in the series one finale), David Morrissey (to be seen in the forthcoming Christmas special), and James Nesbitt as the leading choices.

Today's Telegraph speculates on the top choices in more detail, also speculating on Catherine Tate - the possibility of a female Doctor once again suggested by Russell T Davies in an interview with Tate and Steven Moffat at the National Television Awards on Wednesday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/10/31/nosplit/bvtvdoctorwho31.xml