dr. who

[Ian Abrahams]

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From: "Arin Komins" <akomins at UCHICAGO.EDU>
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Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: dr. who


> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, M Holmes wrote:
>
> :Subject: Re: dr. who
> :
> :Ian Abrahams writes:
> :
> :> How would Bill Nighy go down with the target audience though?
> :
> :He's the right age. He's eccentric. He's quintessentially British.
>
> He'd be a good alternate to Eccleston.  imho, regenerations are best when
> the doctors in question are very different from each other, and Tenant is
> just too....young.

Yes, but how would he go down with the target audience - they are squarely
aiming this (correctly) at a young audience not a sci-fi audience (heck,
that's how we've had two weeks of excellent viewing figures and audience
share). Tenant is four years older than Peter Davison was when he got the
role.

> Yeah, that would rock.  Plus, they still need to find an excuse to have
> Nicholas Courtney make a guest appearance, if only so that he can appear
> with all the doctors ;-)
>
> (He showed up with McGann in one of the BF audios)

Still hoping that all that continuity baggage gets left for BF and the
series itself runs free of it!

Ian