The BBC has released a teaser image for the new season of Doctor Who in which we'll meet the 11th Doctor. Yeah I know, it's hard to go on without David Tennant. But this guy seems to be compensating for not being Tennant by having a super hot companion. Ignore the inferior Doctor and look at the eye candy.
Here's the new teaser image, in two different sizes showing slightly different details.
Before Hollywood announces yet another reboot of some already beloved science fiction movie franchise, let's give them a few better ideas. Since we're talking about the entertainment industry, we can't expect anything to original. But it doesn't have to be. There's a wealth of science fiction out there, just waiting for some movie studio to pick it up and do something with it. No more waiting. Drop that Back to the Future remake Hollywood and do something with these already brilliant sci-fi properties instead:
Futurama
The Pitch: A pizza delivery boy is accidentally frozen for a thousand years, and wakes up in the future. There he finds employment at the interplanetary delivery company, Planet Express, and struggles to fit in with the company's strange assortment of employees. His best friend is an alcoholic robot, he's in love with a smoking hot kung-fu Cyclops who finds him repulsive, and he's employed by a mad scientist with an increasingly bad case of dementia. Hilarity ensues. Think Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Encino Man.
Quantum Leap
The Pitch: A botched experiment sends Sam Becket leaping through time. But Sam can explain it better than I can. "It all started when a time travel experiment I was conducting went... "a little caca". In the blink of a cosmic clock, I went from quantum physicist to Air Force test-pilot. Which could have been fun... if I knew how to fly. Fortunately, I had help - an observer from the project named Al. Unfortunately, Al's a hologram, so all he can lend is moral support. Anyway, here I am, bouncing around in time, putting things right that once went wrong, a sort of time traveling Lone Ranger, with Al as my Tonto. And I don't even need a mask... Oh Boy" more...
For those of you who, like me, may be on the fence about whether to tune back in for more Doctor Who after the devastating departure of David Tennant, here's an incentive: Neil Gaiman.
Gaiman is the celebrated author of things which are awesome (my favorite is Good Omens which he co-authored with Terry Pratchet) and he's getting involved in Doctor Who. According to SFX Gaiman is writing a Who episode. Neil tells them:
As anyone who’s read my blog knows, I’m a big fan of a certain long-running British SF TV series. One that started watching -- from behind the sofa -- when I was three. And while I know it’s cruel to make you wait for things, in about 14 months from now, which is to say, NOT in the upcoming season but early in the one after that, it’s quite possible that I might have written an episode. And if I had, it would originally have been called “The House of Nothing”. But it definitely isn’t called that any more.
Countdown. You’ve got about 14 months.
Tonight Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead, the first of four Doctor Who specials, David Tennant’s last appearances as the most iconic Doctor of all time, debuted on BBC America. It’s more than an episode but not quite a movie. Call it a mini-movie. In it, Tennant was as usual, brilliant. The writing? Maybe not so much.
The problem is they’ve done this story before, and done it better. The companionless Doctor trapped on a bus with nervous passengers as they face mortal peril was done fantastically in the not so long ago episode “Midnight”. This time the twist is that the peril is less mysterious and the humans less suspicious and as result the amazing tension which made “Midnight” so incredibly effective is utterly absent, replaced instead by those red-bereted dickheads with guns who call themselves “Unit”. more...
This is going to take some getting used to. The new season of Doctor Who started production today and that means goodbye to David Tennant, who’s been replaced in the new season by a new actor. Matt Smith is the eleventh actor to play The Doctor and he’s accompanied by a new companion too. She’s Amy Pond, a redhead played by Scottish actress Karen Gillan.
Below we’ve got your first look at both actors in costume and on set together, as they prep for filming of their first scenes together as Doctor and companion. I’m going to miss David Tennant’s Chuck Taylors. I just hope this new Doctor keeps the trenchcoat. Check it out:
Before he's replaced by the new Doctor Who, David Tennant's penultimate Doctor has a little more life left in him yet. The BBC is bringing him back for a series of Doctor Who movies. The first is Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead and we've got a clip from it for you below. It's already aired in the UK, but it arrives here in the USA on BBC America on July 26th. Watch:
In case over the past few months since the last new episode you've forgotten just how brilliant David Tennant is as The Doctor, this weekend BBC America brought us a stop-gap, a mini-movie, another Doctor adventure with Tennant called "Doctor Who: The Next Doctor". Like every Who episode with him in it, it's brilliant.
In "The Next Doctor" Tennant's Doctor encounters another man who also claims to be The Doctor. Is this another Time Lord? Some regenerated version of his future self? Find out out.
If you haven't seen it yet, "The Next Doctor" wil be playing throughout today and probably the rest of the week in repeats on the BBC America. Savor Tennant while you can, it won't be long till the show returns with his Doctor replacement. Luckily, there's still at least one more mini-movie planned featuring Tennant. "Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead" debuts a month from now on July 26th. more...
When Doctor Who returns to the airwaves this season it'll arrive not only with a brand new Doctor (the youngest actor ever to play the part... Matt Smith is only 26), but with a new companion too. The good news? She's pretty and she can't possibly be any more annoying than Donna Noble.
The BBC announced today that Scottish Actress Karen Gillan will be the new addition to the Tardis. She's 21-years-old and unless you've followed her modeling career, she's a complete unknown to anyone who's not already a Doctor Who fan.
On the other hand, if your Doctor Who appetite is as voracious as mine then you saw her last season on Doctor Who in the episode "The Fires of Pompeii", where she played a Soothsayer. No the Soothsayer isn't hopping on board the Tardis. Gillan will likely play a new character in the Doctor Who universe.
More pictures of Karen after the jump: more...
I was late to the game with Doctor Who. As a kid I saw more than my share of the older, BBC episodes and they never did anything for me. As an adult, I tuned into the first few episodes of the current series to give the whole Who thing another shot, and was instantly turned off by the somewhat shoddy stories.
I gave up on Doctor Who for awhile, but eventually gave it another shot when by chance, I happened to tune in for the first episode of Freema Agyeman. I was hooked. David Tennant as the Doctor and Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones were the perfect pairing and suddenly, now I get it. Unfortunately the new season will restart without Tennant and Agyeman. They've brought in yet another Doctor Who and as usual he'll probably pick up new companions. I'll give it another shot, but to me the show will never, ever be as good as when I first fell in love with it, watching Tennant and Agyeman roving the universe in the Tardis.
Now that I've waxed poetic for two paragraphs maybe you'll understand why I'm so excited about this bit of news: IDW has a run of Doctor Who comics going, Doctor Who comics which currently feature the 10th Doctor and his one and only true companion, Martha Jones. On February 25th of this month, they're releasing a special one-shot Doctor Who comic called "The Whispering Gallery" by artist Ben Templesmith and writers Leah Moore & John Reppion. Here's how Sci-Fi Wire describes it: more...
If you don't know who Eva Green is, then just know she's someone you'd very much like to clone. Unfortunately instead of having more of her to spread around, her next movie will be a sci-fi flick in which she multiplies her husband.
Variety says she's set to star in a futuristic drama called Womb. A few years ago this would have been called a science fiction movie, but now everyone in the mainstream has to pretend that sci-fi isn't sci-fi, lest they be accused of being nerds. I guess Hollywood is afraid someone (Bollywood maybe?) will give them a wedgie.
The movie stars super sexy Eva Green as a woman who decides to clone her dead husband. Clone alone ought to get your sci-fi weenie going, but if that doesn't do it then this will: Matt Smith is co-starring as her husband. Smith, is the new Doctor Who. He'll be replacing the great (and in my opinion best Doctor ever) Andy Tennant next season.
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