Quote: chipolata @ October 30 2008, 5:27 PM BSTPossibly. Sheen seems to be the go to guy when you need to mimic somebody famous. I can't think of anything he's done when he hasn't been doing an impersonation.
Exactly, a lot of people will have seen him, but I imagine most wouldn't have a clue who he was if sat in front of him.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ October 30 2008, 5:28 PM BSTExactly, a lot of people will have seen him, but I imagine most wouldn't have a clue who he was if sat in front of him.
If they were sat in front of him they wouldn't see him. Far better to sit behind him.
Quote: chipolata @ October 30 2008, 5:29 PM BSTIf they were sat in front of him they wouldn't see him. Far better to sit behind him.
Clever clogs.
Quote: chipolata @ October 30 2008, 5:27 PM BSTPossibly. Sheen seems to be the go to guy when you need to mimic somebody famous. I can't think of anything he's done when he hasn't been doing an impersonation.
Did a TV play where he played a paranoid schizophrenic. Some seriously wild acting. He would make a splendidly swivel-eyed Doctor.
None of these comedians will be chosen, RTD says the casting of Ecclestone and Tennant shows that it's a role for good actors, not comedians. So that rules out the likes of Bhaskar, Bill Bailey, Serafinowicz, Izzard, Brand etc etc. I can't see Moffat deviating from that rule.
Serafinowicz can act. He isn't very funny, but he can act.
Quote: Bad dog @ October 30 2008, 5:52 PM BSTNone of these comedians will be chosen, RTD says the casting of Ecclestone and Tennant shows that it's a role for good actors, not comedians. So that rules out the likes of Bhaskar, Bill Bailey, Serafinowicz, Izzard, Brand etc etc. I can't see Moffat deviating from that rule.
Yup.
I think it is high time the Beeb got away from all this youth based programming and reconnected with their core teatime weekend audience - Peter Sallis as the Last of the Summer Time Lords, with Kathy Staff as his assistant, sliding down a black hole in the Tardis, while Jean Alexander as Aunty Rani attempts to sell Inspector Truly of Torchwood a secondhand Dalek...
It might be worth starting a petition to get Chris Morris chosen as the next doctor.
Ah, now Chris Morris really can't act.
I nominate Stephen Hawking.
I'd quite like to see Dylan Moran or James Nesbitt as the next Doctor. Obviously angry and slightly drunk are on my checklist...
Quote: chipolata @ October 30 2008, 4:59 PM BSTNo, Ecclestone had arguably peaked and was a few years past his most productive period.
Hmmm, maybe so but Bernie could at least give The Tardis a good fine tuning.