The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Urbankan Minister of Enlightenment (Annie Lambert) in Four to Doomsday (1982)

[Rob4]

Russell is back as showrunner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58682472

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rob4

Russell is back as showrunner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58682472

FAN-F*CKING-TASTIC!!!!!!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Best Doctor Who news in years.

It's actually going to be exciting viewing again and a return to those spine tingling episodes that only he really managed.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

It's being produced by Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter's Bad Wolf Productions.

The news gets even better.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I did read a report at lunchtime that Matt Smith would be open to returning to the show.

Obviously i read it before this news came out but it possibly means at the least he'd be up for a multi Doctor 60th anniversary special.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Rob4

Russell is back as showrunner

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58682472

Great with any luck he won't cow down too the BBC, unlike Chibnall.

[iank]

I know everyone's doing cartwheels, but I find it vaguely depressing. I find his era massively overrated and barely watchable these days, it's very nuch a backwards step, and his take on the Doctor bore bugger all resemblance to the classic Doctor either. While the show going to an independent company is probably a good idea, the thing I find most amusing is the tacit admission of what a failure the current stuff has been, given RTD famously said he'd only come back if the show was on the verge of collapse!

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #535

Name: Tony Sibbald [1936 - 2011]
Year(s): 1975
Stories: Terror Of The Zygons part 1 – Terror Of The Zygons part 2
Character(s): Huckle

Before Who:
Films: On Your Own (1969), Cry of the Banshee (1970), Mousey (1974),
Television: Doomwatch: The Plastic Eaters* (1970) / Brett: The Hollow Men (1971) / The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Holst (1973) / BBC Play of the Month: The Common (1973) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Geography of a Horse Dreamer (1974) / The Venturers: Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts (1975) / Oil Strike North: Quiet Day (1975)

After Who:
Films: Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977), Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (1978), Hanover Street* (1979), Atom Spies (1979), Suez 1956 (1979), The Golden Lady (1979), Superman II (1980), Amin: The Rise and Fall (1981), Ragtime (1981), Reds (1981), The Lords of Discipline (1983), Sakharov (1984), Scream for Help (1984), A View to a Kill* (1985), The American Way (1986), Strong Medicine (1986), The Last Days of Patton (1986), Sky Bandits (1986), Space Police (1986), Never the Sinner (1990), Split Second (1992), Flodder in Amerika! (1992), Hackers (1995)

Television: Centre Play: Commonwealth Season - Canada - For the Whales (1976) / Second Verdict: Lizzie Borden (1976) / Crown Court: Lola (1976) / Maidens' Trip: Nanette (1977) / 1990: What Pleases the Prince... (1978) / Lillie: America (1978) / Turtle's Progress (1979) / Rumpole of the Bailey: Rumpole and the Age for Retirement (1979) / Quatermass* [3 episodes as Chuck Marshall (1979)] / Scene: After the Gold Rush (1980) / BBC2 Playhouse: An Ordered Life (1980) / The Professionals: Fugitive (1980) / Oppenheimer (1980) / The Nightmare Man* [3 episodes as Symonds (1981)] / Month of the Doctors (1982) / Philip Marlowe, Private Eye [2 episodes as Police sargeant (1983)] / Fox Mystery Theater: Mark of the Devil (1984) / Small World: Hurry Up, Please, It's Time (1988) / American Playhouse: The Big Knife (1988) / A Quiet Conspiracy (1989) / Selling Hitler [2 episodes as Maynard Parker (1991)] / One Foot in the Grave: The Wisdom of the Witch (1995)

[Susan Foreman]

With Russell T. back at the helm, I think that it's a shoo-in the Olly Alexander will be the next Doctor

After all, he has experience of working with The Daleks!