I wonder if Russell will pursue that again?
Mikey North as Gary Windass and yes, he does seem to be. He's been in it a while but I haven't followed Corrie since Millie has been in it.
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I wonder if Russell will pursue that again?
Mikey North as Gary Windass and yes, he does seem to be. He's been in it a while but I haven't followed Corrie since Millie has been in it.
Spoilers?
BTW, it's still bizarre seeing Disney promoting the news on their social media.
BTW, it's still bizarre seeing Disney promoting the news on their social media.
All the kids names sound like that to me.
Someone in the comments section of the io9 article noted that Millie looks a mix between Billie and Jenna and now I can't unsee it.
Yeah. I noticed that almost immediately.
No,26. I think Debbie Watling was 19 and Sarah Sutton turned 19 just before making Traken. And Matthew Waterhouse was a bit younger (all 61, August and two from December)
Between dirty old (and not so old) men perving on her and people calling her fat because she doesn't have the body of an anorexic model, Twitter can't die soon enough.
Sadly, Twitter doesn't hold the exclusive rights to dirty, horrible, gross men.
It does seem like they've cloned the archetypal modern companion from the two of them, yes.
Debs was 18 when she joined; Sutton and Waterhouse were both 19
That's not accurate.
Looking at when the actors were cast (not when their debut stories aired), Deborah Watling (whose birthday is the 2nd of January) was 19 when she was cast in the role of Victoria in April 1967 (about a month before the first episode of The Evil of the Daleks was broadcast), while both Matthew Waterhouse and Sarah Sutton (who were both born in December 1961 and are 7 days apart in age with Sarah being the older of the two) were cast in their respective roles in 1980 (Matthew in April and Sarah in October), making them both 18-going-on-19 at the time.
They should cast Billie Piper as her mother. Not as Rose, just as whatever loud, annoying mother Russell is bound to give her.
Well, she is now the age Camille Coduri was in the first RTD era.
No.
That's pushing the obnoxious fanwank too far.
David Tennant being both the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors, while being a decision I don't personally think should have been made, has at least some in-universe precedent underpinning it.
I'm not surprised at all that former Coronation Street writer RTD went for a Corrie cast member. He's done that several times. Heck, so has Chibnall. From https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Coronation_Street:
For the benefit of Americans and Canadians who've never seen Coronation Street, it's not like American soaps. It started basically as part of the British kitchen sink drama trend, focusing on working class northerners instead of posh Londoners. I've been watching it for ages because my wife was a big fan and the woman in my life before her made me watch it with her at least once, so I figured I might as well give in. Like Doctor Who and a lot of other British things, it's noticeably more popular here in Canada than in the US. It can have some over the top storylines, and it's amazing how many characters have affairs or end up in prison at some point, but it can also be laugh-out-loud funny pretty often, and occasionally quite moving, like with the death of Julie Hesmondhalgh's character, and for that matter the early days of her relationship with the character Roy Cropper (Hesmondhalgh's character Hayley was a sympathetic trans character on a popular TV series more than twenty years ago, though Hesmondhalgh herself is cis female.) They also have fun referring to other shows; the shot of Millie Gibson cosplaying is from an episode where a younger character wants a Star Trek-themed birthday party, but they've had lots of Doctor Who references. Heck, Mary Tamm (Romana) made a one-shot appearance as a woman who walks into the corner shop looking for the latest issue of Canine Weekly (think about it), years after she played another character on the show.
As for Millie Gibson, her character is the orphaned teenage daughter of a gangster, who ends up being cared for by the man who killed her father (he's usually a good guy until they need an edgier storyline). Her character grows quite a bit over the years, so Gibson's played pretty much every kind of emotional state. That may be part of the reason soap actors are popular with Doctor Who producers. They've demonstrated they can play comic scenes and much heavier material.
- Suranne Jones, Bruno Langley, Helen Worth, Gray O'Brien, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Shobna Gulati, Michelle Collins, and Ian McKellen are among the most notable Doctor Who actors to have appeared in the soap.
- Katherine Kelly also rose to fame through her six-year run (2006-2012) on the soap as Becky McDonald. Kelly briefly appeared as Becky in Dermot and the Doctor, 5 years before taking on the role of Miss Quill in Class.
For the benefit of Americans and Canadians who've never seen Coronation Street, it's not like American soaps. It started basically as part of the British kitchen sink drama trend, focusing on working class northerners instead of posh Londoners. I've been watching it for ages because my wife was a big fan and the woman in my life before her made me watch it with her at least once, so I figured I might as well give in. Like Doctor Who and a lot of other British things, it's noticeably more popular here in Canada than in the US. It can have some over the top storylines, and it's amazing how many characters have affairs or end up in prison at some point, but it can also be laugh-out-loud funny pretty often, and occasionally quite moving, like with the death of Julie Hesmondhalgh's character, and for that matter the early days of her relationship with the character Roy Cropper (Hesmondhalgh's character Hayley was a sympathetic trans character on a popular TV series more than twenty years ago, though Hesmondhalgh herself is cis female.) They also have fun referring to other shows; the shot of Millie Gibson cosplaying is from an episode where a younger character wants a Star Trek-themed birthday party, but they've had lots of Doctor Who references. Heck, Mary Tamm (Romana) made a one-shot appearance as a woman who walks into the corner shop looking for the latest issue of Canine Weekly (think about it), years after she played another character on the show.
As for Millie Gibson, her character is the orphaned teenage daughter of a gangster, who ends up being cared for by the man who killed her father (he's usually a good guy until they need an edgier storyline). Her character grows quite a bit over the years, so Gibson's played pretty much every kind of emotional state. That may be part of the reason soap actors are popular with Doctor Who producers. They've demonstrated they can play comic scenes and much heavier material.
Also probably that they can handle a fast-paced shooting schedule, though I suppose that's less a factor in the modern series than in the classic series.
Bradley Walsh was also a Corrie regular for a while, even though he sounds like he should be in Eastenders. And Jenna Coleman was in Emmerdale before DW, while Frazer Hines took the opposite route (back when it was called Emmerdale Farm).
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