Doctor Who Confidential: The Ten Doctors

This Saturday BBC One will be airing a Doctor Who Confidential special, The Ten Doctors..

Over 45 years have passed since the TARDIS first landed on our screens on a cold November evening in 1963. Doctor Who Confidential takes a look back at ten incarnations of the wandering Time Lord, reliving some of his most heroic moments and terrifying adventures, and examining the menacing monsters, colourful costumes and faithful companions which defined each Doctor.

Doctor Who Confidential: The Ten Doctors will air on Saturday 3rd January 2009 on BBC One at 5:35pm.

New Doctor Who to be announced
David Tennant
Who will be next to take on the keys to the Tardis?

The name of the actor who will replace David Tennant as Doctor Who will be announced on Saturday.

Tennant said in October that he would stand down from the show after filming four special episodes in 2009.

His replacement - the eleventh Doctor of the TV series - will be revealed in a Doctor Who Confidential programme on BBC One at 1735 on 3 January.

The casting was confirmed over Christmas and filming for the 2010 series begins in the summer.

Tennant is due to begin shooting the first of his four specials this month, just weeks after surgery on his back.

The last of these episodes is expected to run in early 2010.

The casting decision has been a priority for the show's new creative team, led by executive producers Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger.

The BBC said that in Saturday's Doctor Who special "the actor playing the new Doctor will be giving his or her initial reaction" to becoming TV's most famous time traveller.

Wenger, head of drama at BBC Wales, said: "We believe the actor is going to bring something very special to the role and will make it absolutely their own.

"I just can't wait to tell everyone who it is - it has been a nail-biting Christmas trying to keep this under wraps!"

Shortly after Tennant's announcement, bookmakers were tipping several well-known names as the next actor (or actress) to step into the Tardis.

Murphy's Law and Cold Feet star James Nesbitt emerged as one of the favourites, along with Paterson Joseph, John Simm and David Morrissey - who appeared in the 2008 Christmas special.

Paterson Joseph, who recently starred in Survivors and appeared in two Doctor Who episodes in 2005, has said "any actor would love the challenge" of playing the Time Lord.

Bookmakers made him an early favourite - offering odds of 3-1 on him becoming the first black Doctor.

Comedian Jennifer Saunders, former Doctor Who assistant Billie Piper and film star Catherine Zeta Jones have also been mentioned in connection with the role.

The show's outgoing executive producer Russell T Davies said last month: "Whoever becomes the Doctor has got to take on a whole life. It's not just becoming a part of a TV show."

In October, when Tennant was asked who he thought should replace him, he joked: "Well, I've always been a big supporter of Wee Jimmy Krankie!"

Doctor Who began in 1963, and seven actors played the Doctor before the show was dropped in 1989.

After a TV movie in 1996 - starring Paul McGann - the TV series returned in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Tennant took over the role the same year.

So - bei uns ist jetzt klar was wir machen. Jack und der Doctor haben angerufen (die kriegen BBC!!!) und wir machen uns gleich auf den Weg dorthin... und dann wird live geguckt.

Ich hab meinen Compi zu Jack und dem Doc mitgenommen und wir werden euch SOFORT Bescheid sagen, wenn wir mehr wissen!

Silvy - es ist kein Interview mit Fans an der Tardis gezeigt worden.

Hpf, ja und was sagt ihr denn jetzt so zu unserem neuen Doctor? War es erwartet oder eher nicht?

Wenn ich mal daran denke, dass der gerade 1 Jahr jünger ist, als ich *grübel* Doch gut, in "The Shadow in the North" hat er mir jedenfalls an der Seite von Billie schon recht gut gefallen, also... abwarten.

Mag noch jemand ein virtuelles Gläschen Sekt?


(Huhu an alle, übrigens, vom Neuling )