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David Tennant announces exit from Doctor Who

2008-11-01 at 5:10 pm · Filed under Entertainment, NewsWax

Actor David Tennant made an announcement Wednesday at the National Television Awards in the United Kingdom that he will end his time portraying the Tenth Doctor on the long-running BBC science fiction drama Doctor Who in 2009.

The announcement came as part of Tennant’s speech accepting the outstanding drama performance award at the program.

Tennant, 37, is currently portraying the lead in a production of Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and accepted the award by videolink. He was up against Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate, (P. Aaaaghh) who portrayed his companion Donna Noble. Doctor Who was recognized with the award for most popular drama program.

“I love this part, and I love this show so much that if I don’t take a deep breath and move on now I never will, and you’ll be wheeling me out of the Tardis in my bath chair,” said Tennant in his address to the audience in attendance at the Royal Albert Hall. “TARDIS” refers to the time machine and spacecraft operated by Tennant’s character known only as “the Doctor”, and stands for Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

Tennant will again inhabit the TARDIS as the Tenth Doctor for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special, “The Next Doctor”, and will portray the Doctor in four additional specials set to air in 2009. A new actor will play the Doctor for the program’s 2010 series.

Tennant had initially been interested in portraying the Doctor in the 2005 series, but that role went to Christopher Eccleston. The series had previously been dormant since 1996, with Paul McGann in the lead role. Tennant has said that it was his childhood dream to play the Doctor. This is not his first time being recognized at the National Television Awards for his role as the Doctor. In 2006 he received the award for most popular actor, and again in 2007.

In 2006 Tennant beat out actor Tom Baker as the favorite doctor, in a survey of readers of Doctor Who Magazine.

The Doctor comes from a race of Timelords, and has the ability to “regenerate” and change appearance when his health is failing. Actors including Russell Tovey, James Nesbitt, Paterson Joseph, John Simm and David Morrissey have been mentioned in the media as possibilities to portray the 11th incarnation of the Doctor. (P. Female, Black, friggin' Muslims, not metioned. Hmmmmm)

Russell T. Davies, the program’s current executive producer, commented to BBC News on the end of the Tenth Doctor and his work with Tennant: “I’ve been lucky and honoured to work with David over the past few years - and it’s not over yet, the Tenth Doctor still has five spectacular hours left! After which, I might drop an anvil on his head. Or maybe a piano. A radioactive piano. But we’re planning the most enormous and spectacular ending, (P. Probably involving him being kicked fatally in the gonads....) so keep watching.”

Steven Moffat will replace Davies as executive director of Doctor Who in 2010.

Tennant began his work as an actor with roles in theatre, and progressed to starring roles on television programs including Blackpool and Casanova. He has recently returned to theatre roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has received praise for his work in Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost.

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Tennant has carried on a long tradition of wildly eccentric Dr Whos and assumed the role reasonably well. Russell T. Davies as executive producer however has been an unmitigated disaster.

The program’s modernisation has made full use of television’s technical revolution but Davies’ swing toward pairing the Doctor with a procession of surly, earnest, radical feminists, culminating with that awful, slaggy, daggy, harridan Catherine Tate woman, complete with a god-awful, uneducated, modern-British education benchmarked inability to speak with any hint of grace, has rendered the ‘new look’ a nightmare.

"Am Oi Bovvered? Lookut moi foiyce. Am Oi bovvered".

Bet your arse I'm bothered.

He has had an instant ‘daughter’ by IVF for goodness sake. They didn't exactly show them nicking his used condoms but they got his wossnames right enough. Out of the bottle and into battle in a trice. She is off out there now, waiting to be encountered in future episodes no doubt, armed to the teeth in counter-position to the Doctor’s pacifism. ‘She’ll be back’, like a female Arnie.

We have had a dominatrix Prime Minister with delusions of adequacy that made Mrs Thatcher look like the model of gentleness and poise. And she was supposed to portray the cool, claculating, rational, decisive leader! I think she was modelled on Feminazi Harriet Harman, Britain’s deputy PM for a while. (Is she still or did Superman's piss do its job?)

There was a glimmer of glamour with ‘Rose’ who acquitted herself rather well, I thought, even in an empowered state of arousal (her, not me! although…......). The Dr. fancied her. Not before time, I say. I was thinking of stepping in there myself.

Even the ‘woman of colour', a medical doctor, tried to be ‘nice’ occasionally, when she could hold her tongue from auto-mouth, misandric utterances. They nevertheless seemed to be scattered with abandon throughout the scripts. Every episode has moments of sheer anti-male put down or insult. It isn't enough to have goodies and baddies any more. Men are the universal target.

And don’t get me going about the ‘families’ of these ‘difficult’ companions who all want to be Executive Assistants, Deputy Doctors, Acting Doctors and Doctors pro-tem. There are no dads, ‘missing’ dads, bad dads, deserting and long gone dads; hectares of courageous single mothers, of course, all struggling womanfully; spoken English from the Lenny Henry School of Pronunciation; rheumy-eyed grandfathers who have totally forgotten how to shave and are sidelined, shoved out to the end of the garden with a brazier to keep warm by. That bloke who plays Donna friggin' Nobble's grandad has just the right hang-dog, beaten into submission, resigned sadness look that the modern man is expected to have. The result of guilt for all the sins of men going back in time further than the Doctor has managed.

It is nightmare inducing.

Dr Who regenerates.

Will he become a triumphant ‘empowered’ woman, TimeLording it over mere males of every species?

God help the Universe.

No-one is saying.

It is likely.

I am opening a book on it. Lay your bets.

The horror - they have dropped so many hints that Donna Nobblers has 'strange Time powers' that it would not surprise me if Tennant just turned up in one of her awful frocks before his final demise and transformation - into HER !.

It would piss Rose off mightily !

Please, please, 'promote' Davies to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries or something NOW, where he can make documentaries about cod. Find a warp of some sort with a vortex we can cheer as it sucks him into oblivion.