Doctor Hugh?

[SteveH]

 From 'Dr Who Page' on Facebook:

🚨 RUMOUR 🚨
According to the Mirror and other tabloids, Russell T Davies has chosen Hugh Grant to be the next Doctor in a “Marvel-style makeover” for the show.
“The insider said Davies is keen for the Four Weddings and a Funeral star, 61, to “bring a fresh feel” to the role. The insider added: “He offers many attributes – great actor, British, award-winning, Hollywood A-lister and excellent at comedy. Conversations are in progress.”
Davies is also said to want to expand the Doctor’s horizons. “The vision is that the show can be a Marvel-like product, building franchises around the Doctor and other key characters in his many lives.”
Davies is said to be backed by BBC Worldwide commercial and Sony Pictures TV, which bought a majority stake in Wolf Studios, which makes the show. The source added: “With the utmost respect to the BBC, in the past attempts like Torchwood were made on a very limited budget in locations around Wales. Now the world is Russell’s oyster.”

[Aruntraveller]

From 'Dr Who Page' on Facebook:

That would be quite a coup if it turns out to be true.

Grant has worked with Davies before, of course, on the Scandal programme about Jeremy Thorpe, in which Hugh Grant turned out to be rather splendid.

Whether Grant would want to tie himself to something as time-consuming as Dr Who looms large in my mind as a question.

[Anchorman]

The other rumour is that an 'alternate' Doctor series - though still 'canon' would be made. Scripts already exist - the stories formed an excellent Big Finish Arc starring Paul McGhan as the eighth Doctor (as per 'the movie') with his companion, Lucie Miller, played by Sheridan Smith. Having listened to many of the sixth, seventh and eighth Doctors audio plays, I think the idea could work.

[Aruntraveller]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/21/hugh-grant-dismisses-reports-he-will-be-the-next-doctor-who?

Just another rumour then.

[SteveH]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/21/hugh-grant-dismisses-reports-he-will-be-the-next-doctor-who?

Just another rumour then.

Damn. Still, he may be denying it becase it's supposed to be confidential, like politicians who deny any ambition for cabinet status until they get it, because admitting it would ensure not getting it.

[Nearly Sane]

Classic Who watched. I will probably watch the TV Movie as it's a quarter of a century since I saw it. And yet I haven't watched last night's special, nor am I feeling the desire to do so. Even with the return of RTD, and to some extent because of the return of RTD, it feels as if time is up.

60 and out would work for me on TV. It will continue to rumble on on audios, oddly a perfect medium for it, and the animations of the lost episodes would be worth completing but 'There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea's getting cold' and maybe that's enough.

[Aruntraveller]

I've not watched the special either. Going by the reviews, which I don't always, all of which have been unanimous in returning a "meh" verdict, I too may not bother.

RTD has an uphill task indeed. It's one thing to resurrect a much missied Dr Who after a years-long absence, quite another to reverse a declining franchise that most people have lost interest in.

We'll see I guess.

[Anchorman]

Classic Who watched. I will probably watch the TV Movie as it's a quarter of a century since I saw it. And yet I haven't watched last night's special, nor am I feeling the desire to do so. Even with the return of RTD, and to some extent because of the return of RTD, it feels as if time is up.

60 and out would work for me on TV. It will continue to rumble on on audios, oddly a perfect medium for it, and the animations of the lost episodes would be worth completing but 'There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea's getting cold' and maybe that's enough.

     




Just listened to a few Eighth Doctor Big Finish stories, and realising, once again, the value of audio plays, and the magnificent Doctor McGhan was, and could have been, on screen.
As for Sunday night?
I watched it without much expectation, and those expectations were not realised.
The Sea Devils made a welcome return, but the story was insipid.
The only thing that made my ears prick up was the return of Ace and Tegan in November.
Both characters deserve roles in a spin-off, as both were not the usual screaming companion we were used to.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

It needs resting once more.

Bring back Gary Halliday and/or Adam Adamant.

 

[SteveH]

     




Just listened to a few Eighth Doctor Big Finish stories, and realising, once again, the value of audio plays, and the magnificent Doctor McGhan was, and could have been, on screen.
As for Sunday night?
I watched it without much expectation, and those expectations were not realised.
The Sea Devils made a welcome return, but the story was insipid.
The only thing that made my ears prick up was the return of Ace and Tegan in November.
Both characters deserve roles in a spin-off, as both were not the usual screaming companion we were used to.

I qute enjoyed it, but I've seen better.
The job of the early female companions was to scream a lot and get rescued by the chaps, but there were plenty of other later female companions wh had a bit more oomph.