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Paterson Joseph - black actor - tipped as Tennant's replacement

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Jingle Steelbells said:
I think you're right y'know. He'd be cooler, more calculating. He wouldn't go around hugging people in a demented stupor but he'd still have a sense of fun. Dare I say it, on some level, he'd be a blend of both Tennant and Eccles?

While bringing so much more of himself into the char too of course. Sure, i'm just speculating, but I swear he'd make a great Doc 11 and I hope he's geninely the one.
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Ditto, he can do serious and fun, and he'd definitely be a more claculating Doctor. He could be quite debonair as well--something neither Eccleston or Tennant could do (putting DT in a DJ does not make him debonair)

I'm going to be genuinely dissapointed if it isn't him...my guess is that the Beeb will drag it out now until at least after Christmas just to keep the David Morrissey interest going. Who knows maybe they'll drag it out much longer?

I worry that if Patterson really were the prefered choice the BBC would have admitted it by now given the press coverage. Hope I'm wrong.
 
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^ well it would be a mistake for the reason you give to say anything more christmas, I kinda hope we find out after that.
 
Re: Radio 1 this morning

Jingle Steelbells said:
I think you're right y'know. He'd be cooler, more calculating. He wouldn't go around hugging people in a demented stupor but he'd still have a sense of fun.
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Yeah. As much as I adore watching Tennant do the chihuahua-on-crack-technobabble-no-we-really-didn't-think-of-a-way-to-resolve-this-plot scenes I think a change in the doctor's personality in this regard will be a good thing.
 
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Sci said:
Well. You never know. Might turn out that he's awful at running the show and much better at writing the annual one-off.
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Okay Sci, is this the part where I rail on you about disrespecting Moffat, in the same vein that you blow a gasket when someone gripes about RTD? :angel: :lol:
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I mean, you could, except I immediately said that I was confident SM would be a great showrunner. I just pointed out the possibility that he might turn out bad.

Personally, I'm anticipating a portion of fandom turning on SM after they realize that every episode under his reign is not going to be "Blink" and my ending up having to defend him from frivolous bitchings as often as I do RTD. ;)
 
Sci said:
The said:
Sci said:
Well. You never know. Might turn out that he's awful at running the show and much better at writing the annual one-off.
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Okay Sci, is this the part where I rail on you about disrespecting Moffat, in the same vein that you blow a gasket when someone gripes about RTD? :angel: :lol:
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I mean, you could, except I immediately said that I was confident SM would be a great showrunner. I just pointed out the possibility that he might turn out bad.

Personally, I'm anticipating a portion of fandom turning on SM after they realize that every episode under his reign is not going to be "Blink" and my ending up having to defend him from frivolous bitchings as often as I do RTD. ;)
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You mean I'm not getting an entire season of Sally Sparrow? Damn you Moffat, damn you...:lol:
 
captcalhoun said:
i really don't get the love for PJ.
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Well for me it does all hark back to Neverwhere, he was just so unbelievabley cool in that that I've pretty much been waiting for him to be the Doctor ever since. Maybe I let Neverwhere colour my opinions too much, as a friend points out he's never been quite that cool in anything else, but I'm still confident he can turn it on- he'as certainly a good enough actor (just please don't give the Doctor an American accent-Jekyll probably was Patterson's low point!)

My only fear is that after Tennant PJ would be a much more sedate doctor...although let's face it after Tennant Jerry Lewis or Lee Evans might seem sedate ;)
 
well i saw him in Neverwhere, Jekyll and Who and I just don't think the sun shines out his arse like some people seem to. he seems a competent actor, but he's not exactly S'rIan McKellan or Pat Stewart for acting Godness or even (IMO) all that charismatic like Tennant, Barrowman or my favourite for the job, Tom Chambers.
 
See what little I've seen of Chambers would seem to indicate he's just another 'British TV actor', and frankly Barrowman may have charisma, but he's a very limited actor- whoever is the Doctor needs to be better than that. As for Tennant, yes he's a good actor, but too often his acting goodness get's obscured by the gurning/mugging.

Proof of the pudding is in the eating though so we'll just have to wait and see....
 
Just been listening to David Morrissey talk about the character of The Doctor on The One Show. As long as his name's been in the frame, I've been anti him (not sure why). He's just spoken eloquently and thoughtfully about the role. So eloquently and thoughtfully, in fact, that it makes me wonder if he is going to be Eleven. Actually changed my opinion of him somewhat, now.
 
Samurai8472 said:
He tripped on his sentencing and repronounced what he meant.
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Yes. So?

You're welcome to regard some offhand comments from a fellow actor as confirmation of Joseph if you like, but there are so many reasons not to that I'll just wait for an official announcement.

Meanwhile, today RTD had this to say about the eleventh Doctor: "You know, if you read in the papers that so-and-so has been chosen as the new Doctor, it’s just not true. They really haven’t decided yet! They are seeing people as we speak. It’s very exciting. There won’t be an announcement until February, I guess." (Yes, I know, he might be lying.)

And, also a propos of series five, he says:
“And what everyone’s missing is that there will be a new companion, too! No one ever talks about that. It’s made casting next year’s four specials difficult because we’re going, ‘Well, that’s an interesting actress, but they might want her for series five [when Steven Moffat takes over Davies’s post].’ We don’t want to ruin anyone’s chances of being the new companion by casting her for a one-off. We’ve got a young female companion at Easter, and then a much older woman next Christmas – someone in her fifties or sixties. I love that.
“Is David Morrissey the new Doctor? Oh, what a question! [mysteriously] Well, he isn’t the new Doctor in series five – David Tennant doesn’t regenerate into him . . .”
 
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If the "people in the know" are to be believed it's a case of right colour, wrong actor. Chiwetel Ejiofor is supposed to have officialy signed on as of today.

Take with a large handful of salt, naturally.
 
For whatever reason, that strikes me as a bit more plausible than PJ. But until the NTAs, even the most reliable "people in the know" were saying that the Doctor in series five would be David Tennant, so I'm skeptical of everything now. There's conscious misinformation coming out of Cardiff these days, I'm sure.
 
StCoop said:
If the "people in the know" are to be believed it's a case of right colour, wrong actor. Chiwetel Ejiofor is supposed to have officialy signed on as of today.

Take with a large handful of salt, naturally.
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Never heard of him. Got a youtube clip or something?

Because of this thread, the wife and I bought Neverwhere on DVD, and it was EXCELLENT. So even if Paterson Joseph isn't the new Doctor Who (he was incredible in Neverwhere, as were the other actors) we at least got exposed to a new series we'd have never found on our own. Win-win, I say.

So tell me about this Chiwetel Ejiofor...and how the heck do you pronounce his name? :)
 
Bacl said:
So tell me about this Chiwetel Ejiofor...and how the heck do you pronounce his name? :)
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Never seen 'Serenity' or 'Children Of Men' or 'Amistad' or 'Dirty Pretty Things' or 'American Gangster'?

He's basically the most acclaimed British actor of his generation; which is both good and bad. 'Cos while he'd be a brilliant Doctor he won't stick around for long.
 
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