angelophile | The Who News Roundup

Here's some interesting Doctor Who stuff.

No, not the sexy Daleks.

I'm talking about THIS.

Don't bother with the link provided because the info has been pulled from RTD's online CV. Just scroll down and you'll see what was said.

Curious. This news could effectively mean that either RTD's intending to brush off and pull out the two Doctors thing (Tennant already said he has something planned with RTD again) or there's going to be a theatrical outing of a "flashback" with the Tennant Doctor while Matt Smith's Doctor is on the small screen. Either way this seems... strange news. For one thing, in RTD and Tennant are quite happy doing more Doctor Who stuff, why exactly did they both quit?

Of course, the whole thing could prove to be a cock up from the website maintainer and it was an old script that never got off the drawing board or similar. We shall see, I guess.

On a more official line, it's been announced that DavidTennant will be playing the Doctor in two episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Surely the perfect opportunity to reunite The Doctor, Sarah Jane and the Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, since Nicholas Courtney's already appeared and the reunion's never occurred in Nu-Who. (Of course there's something to be said for the Brigadier encountering a youthful Matt Smith Doctor too...)

Oh, and they're doing another online cartoon special too. Hmm, could that last paragraph be a reference to what's mentioned in the first link mayhap?

Oh, and also to be filed under "reportedly..." is the news that Timothy Dalton will supposedly be appearing in one of the upcoming specials.

How they'll fit him in, I don't know, seeing as they seem to be cramming in a bunch of guest appearances already, including, of course, Bernard Cribbins returning as a "fully fledged companion". (As seen here. And also a bunch of spoilers for another return in the Christmas specials.)

Oh, there's also the horribly ill-advised team-up of Captain Jack and the Doctor on John Barrowman's hideous Saturday night TV show Tonight's the Night. Here. But the least said about that, the better.