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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Doctor actor is youngest ever

Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.
At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.
Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010.
He was cast over Christmas and will begin filming for the fifth series of Doctor Who in the summer. Tennant is filming four specials in 2009

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 02:42:56 PM EST
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What do you make of him? I vaguely recognise him but don't know his work really.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 02:43:50 PM EST
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well Im sure he'll grow on us. not really seen him in anything as far as I know. (but then the only thing I'd seen Tennant in before was Rab C Nesbit)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 02:46:34 PM EST
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The interview snippets with him on the show were profoundly depressing. Shallow, chinless wonder with an unattractive London accent. Let's just hope he really is a good actor...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 02:52:15 PM EST
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I do have a friend who thinks we're flying through the complete history of the earlier series and this one coming up will be the Peter Davidson equivalent, and the next and last will be a Silvester McCoy equivalent to finally kill the franchise off.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 02:57:13 PM EST
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I don't want David Tennant to gooooooo.
* wail *

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 03:10:21 PM EST
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Yes, but a lot of people felt that the Doctor persona of Peter Davidson and Sylvester McCoy were deliberately created to kill off Dr who. Who was hated by the BBC, really really hated. They were embarrassed by the production values, scornful of the outside locations. But most particularly they were completely contemptuous of the people who watched it.

It was only resurrected cos the back episodes were making a fortune on DVD and they saw it as a cash cow, but there was still tremendous resistance by BBC Drama, which is why it's now the exclusive property of BBC Wales.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 03:15:26 PM EST
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The Colin Baker persona also had some issues...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 03:21:38 PM EST
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Of course, I should 'fess up, I had a soft spot for some of the darker musings of the Sylvester McCoy Doctor...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 03:25:54 PM EST
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