New Doctor Who decides to quit

[PMC]

Accoring to the BBC news today, actor Christopher Ecclestone has decided to quit as Doctor Who "to avoid being typecast".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4395849.stm

The shock announcement comes after only one episode of the new series has been broadcast.

So who should be next to fill the role?

[odin]

Aw {bleep}! That was broadcast last saturday isn't it? Feck...I meant to watch the first ep. :-x.

[Vincent]

I've taped it, still haven't watched it yet though...

[Wilse]

I watched it and thought it was not bad. Eccleston was good, Piper
so-so. The effects were good enough but still retained enough pishness
for that authetic Dr. Who feel. :-)

-EDIT-

One for the Pink Floyd fans: ever notice, about halfway through 'One
Of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces', it's the Dr.
Who tune?

[Vincent]

Wilse wrote:
The effects were good enough but still retained enough pishness for that authetic Dr. Who feel. :-)

:lol:

[Cymric]

@Odin:

Rest assured, you're not the only one who found out too late . Quite frankly, I had expected some of the English geeks on A.org warning us in advance, but hoooono :-P.

[odin]

Well, actually, I found out in time. I saw an announcement on the BBC. But ofcourse I forgot to make a note in my diary or my brain. Hm, I DID make a note in my brain but well...my brains sucks :-).

[Wilse]

@odin:

You probably have the same model as me. The one with the memory leak
problems?

[bloodline]

Wilse wrote:
One for the Pink Floyd fans: ever notice, about halfway through 'One
Of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces', it's the Dr.
Who tune?

Ahh, my favourite Pink Floyd Song :-)

IIRC that isn't actually the Dr Who theme, it's just a large modualr synth alternating between two notes with the release gates open, which gives it that Dr Who sound :-)

[Wilse]

I know it's not actually the theme but it sounds very similar.

I thought it was more than just two notes, though.

Wilse wrote:
@odin:

You probably have the same model as me. The one with the memory leak
problems?

Your brain run AmigaOS? Cool!! ;-)

I "upgraded" mine to an x86 model, but unfortunately it's a 286 compatible with 512k RAM and CP/M. :-P

[Wilse]

@mdma:

Yup - if I ever remember how to install update no.2, I reckon I'll
have my memory back. ;-)

[Doobrey]

Cymric wrote:
Rest assured, you're not the only one who found out too late . Quite frankly, I had expected some of the English geeks on A.org warning us in advance, but hoooono :-P.

I take it you don`t get regular BBC 1/2/3/4  or whatever number they`re upto this week.
 
I swear they spent more airtime with adverts for Doctor Who and that godawful Cassanova than they actually did for showing programmes.
 Then almost every other programme was talking about Dr.Who, or interviewing the cast etc etc.

Dunno if it`s just me, but whenever something is this hyped up it puts me off watching it cos it`s probably utter crap (something that I`ve gotten from watching over -hyped,over-acted,over-scripted, over-produced Hollywood crud.)

 But it was pretty good, Billie Piper was better than I thought she`d be, and Eccleston is probably the best Doctor since Tom Baker.

Doobrey wrote:

Cymric wrote:
Rest assured, you're not the only one who found out too late . Quite frankly, I had expected some of the English geeks on A.org warning us in advance, but hoooono :-P.

I take it you don`t get regular BBC 1/2/3/4  or whatever number they`re upto this week.
 
I swear they spent more airtime with adverts for Doctor Who and that godawful Cassanova than they actually did for showing programmes.
 Then almost every other programme was talking about Dr.Who, or interviewing the cast etc etc.

Dunno if it`s just me, but whenever something is this hyped up it puts me off watching it cos it`s probably utter crap (something that I`ve gotten from watching over -hyped,over-acted,over-scripted, over-produced Hollywood crud.)

 But it was pretty good, Billie Piper was better than I thought she`d be, and Eccleston is probably the best Doctor since Tom Baker.

Eccleston is a fine actor, I'm not a Doctor Who fan really but I'll make sure to watch as many episodes as I can while he's in it.

Anyone watch him in The Messiah?  Excellent performance.

[odin]

@doobrey:
Actually most cablecompanies here in NL have BBC1 and 2 in their standard package.

@wilse:
Mine even has problems with accepting input let alone memory leaks.