Doctor News

[barrington]

I've not made a Doctor Who post for a while, but as UK viewers (and those of us who found ways to watch alongside them) prepare for the tumultuous end of the first new series (no spoilers here, promise), the good news is coming in thick and fast. Most astoundingly, the BBC have now commissioned a third series (along with a second Christmas special episode), and earlier in the week we found out that Billie Piper is staying for the entire second series. We also found out that a few other characters will return next year, though on the down side they include Rose's Mum.

But most exciting of all is the line-up of directors for the second series, announced yesterday: James Hawes (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances), Euros Lyn (The End of the World, The Unquiet Dead) and none other than veteran Graeme Harper (The Caves of Androzani, Revelation of the Daleks). Sadly no Joe Aherne (Dalek, Boom Town and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways), but then we don't have to sit through anything else directed by Keith Boak (Rose, Aliens of London/World War Three) either.

When the new series was announced, I thought there'd never been a more exciting time to be into Doctor Who. But I think I may have been wrong.

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[pollyanna-n.livejournal.com]

Who (ahem) is the new Dr?

[barrington.livejournal.com]

A fellow by the name of David Tennant, currently best known in the UK for playing Casanova in the series of the same name - a series also produced by Russell T Davies.

He's a topical photograph: