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Spoilers Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

Ah right, I see what you mean. Yes, that’s fair, Spock’s American accent qualities are much more superficial (accent, basically, and to a degree mannerisms, though I suppose many would say that his reserved manner isn’t really American).
He’s a bit of the “Noble Savage”trope. I always compare him to Mingo from “Daniel
Boone”
 
i think season 3 of doctor who 2023 aka season 16 of doctor who 2005 should have darleks and cyberpeople again along with the biogenerated ranis and masters
 
Tennant should come back and we see him regenerate into the first American Doctor. It's time to try a American in the role. It would breathe new life into the franchise.

Colin Baker Voice: American? AMERICAN?!

If you're doing a Doctor who's not British, there's one obvious choice: Canadian.
 
It sure was. RTD himself has even admitted they didn't really know what they were doing during production of that season, contributing to the disorganized mess it was, production wise.
 
Well, Rob Shearman isn't ever going be be asked back now. (Not that he ever seemed to be interested in doing so.)

Ever is a long time. More like until the next producing team.

...if Shearman wanted to come back. Either way, this is hardly a death blow for him.
 
IIRC, Shearman has a new Doctor Who novel due out anytime now.

Two, Jubilee and Chimes of Midnight, based on a couple of audios he wrote a long time back for Big Finish. They're being described as radical reinterpretations rather than straightforward novelizations. I'm looking forward to them.
 
1) Shearman has said time and time again he wouldn't come back cause he's "moved on" whatever that means. But I honestly always wanted to see him back.

2) He's not exact;y wrong, even if I don't entirely agree.

3) what are you guy refering to re:Ahearne?
 
Two, Jubilee and Chimes of Midnight, based on a couple of audios he wrote a long time back for Big Finish. They're being described as radical reinterpretations rather than straightforward novelizations. I'm looking forward to them.
The Chimes of Midnight is perfect as it is so I'm not sure if I would want to read that, but I was always underwhelmed by  Jubilee so perhaps that would be worth checking out.
 
That said, I feel that The Holy Terror has an expansive enough of a world to play with that I would be curious to read an adaptation of it, if he were to write one.
 
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Everything he's written is pretty great (including his "debut" story Punchline and the one-epsode story of the 100 anthology featuring Sixie and Evelyn, but I always thought Jubilee was, like Real Time, set up for a sequel story that completes it but never came. Still good, but for me, that feeling never escapes.*

*Same with Battlefield, also.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if the next time we see Doctor Who it is as a big budget Movie with a big name star as The Doctor. Also a big name Director. Like maybe Terry Gilliam or Danny Boyle.
 
what are you guy refering to re:Ahearne?
Joe Ahearne claimed his experience working on the first season was having a negative impact on his mental health. His wife felt the situation could have been potentially life threatening (or at least life altering) if he continued working on the show, and so he hasn't been back to Doctor Who since.

Which also means that when Eccleston told Moffat he'd do Day of the Doctor if Ahearne directed, there'd be no way for Moffat to fulfill that request even if he were inclined to.
 
Joe Ahearne claimed his experience working on the first season was having a negative impact on his mental health. His wife felt the situation could have been potentially life threatening (or at least life altering) if he continued working on the show, and so he hasn't been back to Doctor Who since.

Which also means that when Eccleston told Moffat he'd do Day of the Doctor if Ahearne directed, there'd be no way for Moffat to fulfill that request even if he were inclined to.
Thanks, that context is much appreciated.

Man, what a shit show. And yet, what an amazing season that inspired what came next! Would love to see an honest documentary about it at some point.
 
Australian first.

Sydney Newman was Canadian, so we get the first shot at it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the next time we see Doctor Who it is as a big budget Movie with a big name star as The Doctor. Also a big name Director. Like maybe Terry Gilliam or Danny Boyle.

I would be surprised. Terry Gilliam is 85 years old and hasn't made a movie in several years, much less a big budget one. The BBC can't do a big budget theatrical release, so you're pretty much looking at Hollywood, and they're probably aware that Doctor Who didn't deliver what Disney expected. They're not likely to find that a good basis for spending a couple hundred million dollars.
 
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