After a 16 year hiatus, the BBC brought back Dr. Who last week, as the first of 13 newly commissioned episodes was broadcast.
The ratings were strong enough that 13 more episodes have been commissioned. There’s one problem, though. The actor newly playing the Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, has given his notice. Oddly, he noted that he didn’t want to be typecast in the role. If that’s the case, he’s an ass. No one had mentioned to him the possibility that they’d order further shows?
The woman who plays his assistant in the latest skein will return, and Ecceleston’s Doctor will regenerate into a 10th incarnation (apparently the Paul McGann’s TV movie Doctor is officially part of continuity; hopefully they’ll ‘forget’ that part about him suddenly being half-human). Actor David Tennant is supposedly the front runner.
No word, that I know of, on when and where the new skein will play here in the States.
