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mtemplar_fic ([personal profile] mtemplar_fic) wrote2008-03-29 11:55 am
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Yay?

Last year Tennant won the National Television Award for most popular actor. The BBC has such confidence in that popularity that it has given him time off to play Hamlet, a commitment that rules out a Doctor Who series for 2009. Instead, there will be three bank holiday specials spread through next year, with a fifth full series reaching our screens in 2010, to which Tennant is already informally committed.

From today's Independant.

Link to full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/david-tennant-the-good-doctor-802404.html

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[personal profile] platypus 2008-03-29 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard looooooooots of different stories on the 2009 specials, and there's been no announcement of a commitment to 2010, so keep the salt shaker handy :).

[identity profile] mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com 2008-03-29 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Hence the 'Yay?'. Here's hoping!

[identity profile] garpu.livejournal.com 2008-03-29 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Not complaining. :)

[identity profile] melnay13.livejournal.com 2008-03-29 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, RTD said he's in the Christmas special, but the pessimistic side of me wonders if it's just a regeneration scene...

I know it will rip my heart out when he does leave. Not soon *she hopes*

[identity profile] the-lucky-stars.livejournal.com 2008-03-29 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not going to see it as confirmation yet, but you know how these things are first spread...

[identity profile] abbyromana.livejournal.com 2008-06-04 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Well according to the BBC Web site, DT is in all of the specials for 2009, but beyond that there has been no official word I've heard of. I hope he continues for one more series after the specials before retiring the pin-stripped suit.

[identity profile] mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com 2008-06-04 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be good to have one element of continuity with the whole production team shake-up. It'd be tough to change that much of the show at once - even with an off-year. I'd love it if he'd stay, but I wouldn't blame him for calling it quits, either.