Doctor Who star Matt Smith is to leave his role as the Doctor at the end of this year, the BBC has announced.
After four years as the Time Lord on the BBC One show, viewers will see Smith's Doctor regenerate in the 2013 Christmas special.
The 30-year-old actor said working on the show had been "the most brilliant experience".
Doctor Who marks its 50th anniversary in November with a special episode, which Smith has already filmed.
The BBC said Smith's "spectacular exit" was yet to be revealed and would be "kept tightly under wraps".
Smith first stepped into the Tardis as the 11th Doctor in 2010. Taking over from David Tennant, he was the youngest actor to play the role.
Speaking after the announcement, he said he was "incredibly proud" of what the show had achieved over the last four years under Steven Moffat, the show's lead writer and executive producer.
Smith also thanked fans around the world for their "truly remarkable" dedication to the show.
I'm betting the ultra-PC BBC will make the next Dr Who a black woman.
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:54 am
by Daisy
Awwww I'm a little bit gutted. I've grown to love Matt Smith over the last few years.
What about the brilliant Ben Whishaw as his replacement.
Gob wrote:
I'm betting the ultra-PC BBC will make the next Dr Who a black woman.
Unless they can find a black, wheelchair bound lesbian adoptive parent of Asian kids...
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 10:11 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
... with HIV (kids or parent)
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:31 pm
by Sean
Oh now that's good!
You should be a BBC Casting Director...
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:55 pm
by Gob
Has to be vegan of course.
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 4:16 am
by Gob
An actor famous for his expletive-ridden tirades in a show about spin doctors looks almost certain to be the next Doctor Who after bookmakers suspended betting on the cult role.
Sources close to the show say just 10 people know the actor's identity but it will be announced in a television special on Sunday in the UK - vwhich will be broadcast live in Australia on Monday morning.
Bookmakers William Hill suspended betting on the next Doctor Who when Peter Capaldi became the 5/6 favourite.
Capaldi is famed for his foul-mouthed role as Malcolm Tucker, a political "enforcer" in the television show The Thick of It and its movie spin-off In the Loop. He is a life-long fan of the show and as a teenager wrote a letter about Daleks to the magazine Radio Times .
The next Doctor will be announced on Doc-tor Who Live: The Next Doctor, a half-hour show, presented by Zoe Ball. It will feature interviews with Smith and executive producer Steven Moffat, celebrity fans and some actors who have also played the ever-changing science-fiction hero.
“The decision is made and the time has come to reveal who's taking over the TARDIS. For the last of the Time Lords, the clock is striking 12,” Mr Moffat said in a statement.
Wow, he's a lot older than anybody they've had lately...
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 1:54 pm
by Daisy
Even though it probably won't be, I am loving the comments online about Peter Capaldi being the new Doctor.
So far "Piss off you overgrown pepperpot. If you mess with me, I'll rip that stupid sink plunger off you and shove it so far up your arse that you really will need a doctor!"
And
"Oi, Dalek. Stuff your lollipop up your shiny metal arse, you mincing tin twat!"
Are my favourites.
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:52 pm
by TPFKA@W
Do they hire from Whoville?
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:10 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Ask Horton
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:27 pm
by Daisy
It only is fucking Peter fucking Capaldi!!!
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:38 pm
by Gob
Good.
I did have fears of it being a black, disabled, lesbian, single-parent, actor.
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:43 pm
by Gob
At 55, he is the same age as William Hartnell when he was cast in the role as the first Doctor in 1963.
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 8:53 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
An actor famous for his expletive-ridden tirades
Alec Baldwin?
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:36 pm
by Daisy
In case you haven't heard of Malcolm Tucker
Two of my favourite lines in TV ever are in this montage...
"Come the fuck in, or fuck the fuck off"
"Don't you EVER call me a bully, I am so much WORSE than that"
Re: Who goes there?
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:43 am
by Econoline
This video contains content from
BBC Worldwide, who has blocked it
on copyright grounds.
Ahhhhh.....that's okay.....you've already told us the two best lines. Anything else would be a letdown.
Ahhhhh.....that's okay.....you've already told us the two best lines. Anything else would be a letdown.