NEW DOCTOR CAFÉ - LIVE NEWS POST

[tencrush]

Feel free to talk amongst yourselves while we wait, I shall update this post AS THE NEWS IS BROADCAST, so my 'merican friends shouldn't have more of a delay than, say, 30-odd seconds, depending on my typing speed and indeed the difficulty I might have spelling the name in question.

Doctor Eleven will be played by:

MATT SMITH.

ETA: He's fuggish, but I kind of like him.

And there you go.

Comments

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

*refreshes even though it hasn't started yet*

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

Was there all this fuss when David Tennant was announced? I know we knew from the start that CE was only doing a single season, but I don't remember any major announcement about who was going to be 10.

[tencrush]

Those two annoucements (Eccleston leaving and Tennant taking over) were pretty darned close together, or maybe even at the same time, I don't remember.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

*Practices squee* Yes, squee passes ops check.

[tencrush]

I have booze and it has started.

[oneloveonelight.livejournal.com]

I just think it'd be funny to say, "Congratulations, it's a Dick!"

[tencrush]

Russell's totally jealous. And it's not a woman.

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

They mentioned 'his hair', which would seem to rule out Patterson joseph

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

I couldn't care less yesterday and for some reason now I'm dying. Apparently I'm very good at repression? *bites nails*

[tencrush]

It's the youngest doctor ever, apparently.

[fahrbotdrusilla]

oh, god... now I'm worried.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Not PJ then, woes :(

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

Is it Rupert Grint? He has lots of hair (and it usually needs to be cut), he's definitely young, and he's ginger!

I was hoping the hair comment meant Richard Coyle, but the age thing I'm not so sure about...

[tencrush]

He's 26.

[bandgeek01.livejournal.com]

Ack the actor is my age. I'm nervous now.


Nicole

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

I feel young all of a sudden...

[bandgeek01.livejournal.com]

Just curious how long is the confidential supposed to be on?


Nicole

[tencrush]

Only another 15 minutes to go. They're on McCoy.

[tencrush]

*dreads*
Oh God, it's not that Ruby in the Smoke Smith boy is it?

[tardislassy.livejournal.com]

That's what his wikipedia says...

[quinn222.livejournal.com]

OK.

Who is Matt Smith?

[tardislassy.livejournal.com]

He was in Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North with Billie Pipper

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

This is him right here?

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1006408960/nm1741002

...he doesn't look like much, does he?

[tardislassy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's him

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

Of course, now the big question is, who's going to be the next Companion?
(and how will Jack react to a younger looking Doctor? And how will Ianto react to Jack reacting to a younger looking Doctor? ;-)

Seriously though, now that they've got a young Doctor, I think they'll need to go older for the Companion (Donna!!!)

[tigercheetah.livejournal.com]

Yikes, I wasn't expecting a 26 year old. Looks interesting or maybe it's just the hair.

[tardislassy.livejournal.com]

I do quite like his hair ^_^
But in the BBC article, he looks more like a villain IMO

[littlepunkryo.livejournal.com]

He reminds me a lot of Nine -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7808697.stm

[louisema.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I reserve judgement until halfway through his first series.

For which read: five minutes into his first appearance.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

Thank you for this thread, tencrush

[kelspots.livejournal.com]

So, at this rate, 12 will be 14 years old and 13 will still be in the womb. Maybe that's why there are only 13 regenerations: by the time they get to the last one, they're unborn?