Title: Some interesting Doctor Who developments...
Description: ...but will David Tennant stay?
Neil Jackson - September 3, 2007 07:09 PM (GMT)
Tim Rogerson - September 4, 2007 08:21 AM (GMT)
Interesting - have the BBC persuaded Tennant to do another series in 2010 in return for a "gap year" off playing Hamlet?
They have been buttering him up in the last year or two by giving him one-off dramas in between Who's.
Bob Cashill - September 4, 2007 12:52 PM (GMT)
Hamlet, eh? Nick Bottom in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, maybe...but I've grown accustomed to his face, and find he works more congenially with his Season 3 co-star. Maybe Eccleston can be coaxed back in 2010 if Tennant decides to go onto Lear and Macbeth.
Terry Barhorst, Jr. - September 4, 2007 03:51 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Bob Cashill @ Sep 4 2007, 06:52 AM) |
| Maybe Eccleston can be coaxed back in 2010 if Tennant decides to go onto Lear and Macbeth. |
I would say that Doctors don't ever come back, but they do, just never for long.
I wonder if Tennant is debating matching Tom Bakers run or perhaps surpassing it. If the 2009 specials are considered 'series 5', that would make 2010 'series 6', which means one more set of specials or another full series would match Baker, but then a set of specials isn't a full series. Mmmmm.
Tennant's still young and if he doesn't get bored with it or something else happens he could well become the longest running doctor. He's already had more series than most of the other Doctors (er, when series 5 kicks in) though fewer total eps probably (depending on how you count the classics eps).
Maybe they'll throw more money at the 2009 stuff because there'll be fewer of them and they're specials (I wonder if that means they'll be 90 minutes)?
Lisa Larkin - September 5, 2007 05:09 AM (GMT)
Isn't Tennant's girlfriend, Sophia Myles, on a US network series in the fall? Are they still together? I would think that would put a crimp in keeping him tied to a long-running series, though a year run on DOCTOR WHO is a lot shorter than a year run on your typical US network show. And who knows how long FOREVER KNIGHT, err... MOONLIGHT, will last.