For those of you who are not Doctor Who fans, you can move along now. This is vaguely movie related, and I am a big geek so I wanted to share.
With Doctor Who is somewhat of limbo with next “season” not really being a season at all but 4 TV Movie events they are calling “Special Episodes”, the big question lingering around has been if David Tenant, the most popular Doctor ever on the series, would return for the planned official season in 2010.
The answer is no.
Tennant stepped into the Tardis in 2005, and will leave the role after four special episodes are broadcast next year.
He made the announcement after winning the outstanding drama performance prize at the National Television Awards.
“When Doctor Who returns in 2010 it won’t be with me,” he said.
“Now don’t make me cry,” he added. “I love this part, and I love this show so much that if I don’t take a deep breath and move on now I never will, and you’ll be wheeling me out of the Tardis in my bath chair. I’ll miss it”
Tennant is taking the high road leaving the show while he is still popular before being asked to leave. He is the 10th person to take on the mantle of The Doctor.
With any luck this popularity will spill over to his continued career. Many of the previous Doctors were stung with the typecasting which has limited many of their careers. This alone prompted Christopher Eccleston to step down after only one season.
Speculation on the next Doctor includes Paterson Joseph, David Morrisey, James Nesbitt or John Simm.
And because she is intellectually sexy, I wanted to share this Catherine Tate clip, with David Tennant as her character’s new English teacher in a sketch performed for Comic Relief 2007. (When Tate starts reciting her sonnet, it… moves me.)
