Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[Ray Hardgrit]

I don't really have much faith that the rumour is true, but Stargate SG-1 did a fantastic job with a similar idea. Even based their 200th episode around it.

 

[XCV330]

I don't really have much faith that the rumour is true, but Stargate SG-1 did a fantastic job with a similar idea. Even based their 200th episode around it.

now I have to rewatch that. so little time, so much streaming. thanks

 

[Mr Awe]

I suspect that if Tennant is coming back, it's just for the 60th anniversary special, not as the star of the next series. If he does return, they're asking for trouble if it's anything other than the actual tenth Doctor, or at the very least a Curator type character that is very similar. It's what the common fan wants and Tennant playing a different role will likely be a disappointment.

I suppose a Rose/Moment type thing could work but that seems less likely for the Doctor.

I don't know what to make of these rumors. I'm pretty sure they're just fans guessing. After all, Tennant is a fan favorite who has always expressed an interest in returning. So, he's a logical guess!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Plus, he's actively replaying the role for Big Finish now (mind you, that's much easier than an appearance on the show itself).

 

[XCV330]

Metacrisis doctor always left an easy way for Tennant to return and even age a little

 

[Starkers]

To be honest I think my idea for Tennant and Tate would be better

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It’s the kind of thing that might (and to an extent has) work as a very short story on a page, but not on screen.

Paul Cornell used the idea in his comic for IDW, The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who. The eleventh Doctor's TARDIS glitches, and he finds himself on our Earth, there's a little girl who's a big fan of Doctor Who, and there's a Doctor Who convention where Matt Smith is appearing...

Come to think of it, Steven Moffat also did something similar in a short story he wrote for the Lockdown project. Umpty-Umms, I think was the title.

 

[Starkers]

Would they be playing completely made up characters, or heightened versions of themselves I wonder? I mean Tennant has already done that in staged!

No idea if there's any truth to it, but it does feel like the kinda thing RTD would do.

 

[matthunter]

Terror of the Umpty-Umms is a bit different as the Doctor never actually appears, but is just "heard".

Spoiler

The plot is a troubled child in a care facility who invents a persona of being a killer cyborg so that he can suppress his upsetting emotions and rationalise acting out against the adults there (humans trying to hold him hostage, fools! They shall tremble before his might!!).

We don't find this out until well into the story though - it's written as if the character actually IS a cyborg that has assumed human guise. "The Doctor" is presented as having "tapped into the cyborg's transmissions" to talk to him, but is actually his own conscience talking him out of setting a fire at the facility - he bases the better side of his personality on the fictional character he watched in happier times.

 

[jaime]

Paul Cornell used the idea in his comic for IDW, The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who. The eleventh Doctor's TARDIS glitches, and he finds himself on our Earth, there's a little girl who's a big fan of Doctor Who, and there's a Doctor Who convention where Matt Smith is appearing...

Come to think of it, Steven Moffat also did something similar in a short story he wrote for the Lockdown project. Umpty-Umms, I think was the title.

There was a run of them in DWM in the eighties and nineties, and a rather nice one in one of the big name fanzines. It had the Doctor as an advisor on the TV show, which was of course his story all along, and making a rather melancholy goodbye from the edge of the field where they were shooting survival.

 

[Lonemagpie]

A new report on GB gives some context to those rumoured Tennant/Tate appearances


The plot is a meta thing where the newly regenerated Doctor finds a world where their adventures are chronicled like a TV show.

Tennant and Tate aren't playing themselves, but they are playing actors portraying the Tenth and Donna. This turns out to be a plot to ambush the real Doctor

Aw, John Brosnan's old annual pitch to the production office from the Tom Baker era..

 

[Samurai8472]

ROTTC is the supposed acronym for Jodie's final special, apparently this was in a tweet that has just as swiftly vanished and was reported by a poster on Digitalspy.

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2423682/jodies-final-episode-title-revealed-in-acronym

Return of the Timeless Child?

 

[matthunter]

Random Old Tired Tabloid Crap?

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Rose or Ten's Triumphant Cameo.

 

[The Wormhole]

Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Oh, right. Two Ts.

 

[XCV330]

running out that terrible Chibnail

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Rassilon's Otherworldly Travels Through Chaos.

Damn.

Now I want that to be the actual title!

 

[jaime]

Return of the timeless child(ren)

(Or revenge)

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Revenge of the Timeless Crap

 

[The Knappos]

Reappearance of the Time Cop

Jean Claude Van Dam confirmed as the next Doctor