The Doctor’s new assistant is…Karen Gillan May 29, 2009
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Karen Gillan will play the companion to Matt Smith's 11th Doctor in "Doctor Who."
The BBC has announced that 21-year-old relatively unknown actress Karen Gillan will step into the TARDIS as the companion in “Doctor Who” when Matt Smith takes over as the 11th Doctor in 2010.
Gillan has already appeared in “Doctor Who,” portraying a soothsayer in the season four episode, “The Fires of Pompeii.”
Executive Producer and Head of Drama BBC Wales Piers Wenger said, ‘We knew Karen was perfect for the role the moment we saw her. She brought an energy and excitement to the part that was just fantastic. And when she auditioned alongside Matt we knew we had something special.’
Meanwhile, current Doctor, David Tennant, will star in three more “Doctor Who” specials to air later this year before Smith takes over the role.
Tennant will be the new host of PBS’ “Masterpiece Contemporary” series when it returns in October.
New “Who” announced: Matt Smith is the 11th Doctor! January 3, 2009
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Matt Smith takes control of the TARDIS in 2010 as the 11th Doctor. (BBC Photo)
Matt Smith, a 26-year-old actor whose name had not even been mentioned for the role until the last couple of days, has been cast as the 11th incarnation of the Doctor in BBC’s long-running sci-fi series, “Doctor Who.”
Smith will officially take over the role when the fifth series of the show debuts in 2010. Until then, popular David Tennant will continue to star in the title role in a series of specials through 2009 and early 2010. It is expected that the famous “regeneration scene” — in which Tennant’s 10th Doctor will “die” and transform into Smith’s 11th Doctor — will take place in the conclusion of a two-part special that will be broadcast in the UK for the Easter holiday in 2010.
The announcement of Smith’s casting was made during a special episode of “Doctor Who Confidential” on BBC 1 on Saturday.
Smith, who will be the youngest actor to ever play the approximately 1,000-year-old Time Lord, has coincidentally appeared in three series opposite former “Doctor Who” companion Billie Piper (Rose Tyler) — “Ruby in the Smoke”, “The Shadow in the North”, and “Secret Diary of a Call Girl”.
Following Tennant into the Doctor’s TARDIS will be no easy task for Smith. Tennant, who has starred in the titular role since a 2005 Christmas special (“The Christmas Invasion”) has become arguably the most popular actor to ever play the character, even surpassing perennial favorite Tom Baker, who starred as the floppy hat/long scarf-wearing Fourth Doctor from 1974-1981.
Watch an extended interview with Matt Smith below:
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“Doctor Who” Series 4 Cinema Trailer March 26, 2008
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Here is a trailer for the fourth series (season) of “Doctor Who” that the BBC recently had running in movie theaters in the UK. Enjoy!
Trailer: Doctor Who – The Voyage of the Damned December 16, 2007
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Above is a trailer for this year’s “Doctor Who” Christmast special, “Voyage of the Damned,” which features Kylie Minogue as Astrid, a waitress aboard a spacecraft designed to look like the Titanic.
This is going to be great!
Britney goes for alien look February 17, 2007
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OK…this is scary.
And I don’t mean that picture of the newly bald Britney Spears…although that is pretty scary looking.
What I find scary is that a few weeks back, there were all sorts of media reports going around that Russell T. Davies, the executive producer of my favorite TV show, “Doctor Who,” wanted Spears to appear in “Doctor Who” as a group of sex-crazed aliens cloned to look like her.
I dismissed the stories as, what the Brits would say, rubbish. However, looking at these pics of a bald Britney Spears, I am scared that she might be getting ready for that “Doctor Who” role after all.
Now, THAT would be scary.
I usually love all episodes of “Doctor Who,” no matter how weak they might be. But I would have to say any “Doctor Who” story featuring Britney would be, as The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy would say:
(Photo: People.com)
