Number 11

[morwen]

In case anyone hasn't seen it elsewhere David Tennant's replacement has been cast and will be announced tomorrow. It would have been nice to have this kept a secret until the episode in question, but I suppose this was inevitable (especially given the media circus of the previous switchover).

I expect I will be in a pub in Reading at the time. Damn.

Comments

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

why are you in reading tommorrow?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Mudmeet.

[welikegoats.livejournal.com]

I recommend the Hobgoblin, although the place by the station is surprisingly good, too.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

The plan is the place by the station (we had a meet there in February 1998, you see)

...I wonder if we will be able to sit in the same part of it... do you know if it has changed?...

[welikegoats.livejournal.com]

I have only become familiar with it in recent years, but I believe the carpet is less sticky than it was a few months ago, so it has probably changed.

[vampwillow]

It was *so* much better 'back in the day' when the first you knew that there was even going to *be* a regeneration was when it started happening, and didn't know who was playing the next doctor until you saw then appear ...

So much for 'progress' :-(

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

If this is true it can only have happened once.

with 4/5

*Tom Baker quitting announced in October 1980
*Peter Davison announced as cast on 3 December 1980
*appears at tail end of 'Logopolis' on 21 March 1981
*appears in first full serial 'Castrovala' on January 4 1982

Can't seem to find dates for Baker, but he appears to have had a press conference before he was seen in costume, and this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A6127841) says before that the press had been speculating on Pertwee's replacement.

With Pertwee you didn't actually see his face in "The War Games", and the show was being re-tooled anyway, so he must have been announced before "Spearhead in Space".

[vampwillow]

Well I don't recall knowing in advance that Doctor #1 was about to be replaced, or #2 or #3 ...

and it certainly wasn't a case of announcing to massive publicity well over a year in advance!

[tsuki-chama.livejournal.com]

I'm confused by the inclusion of David Morrissey and Billie Piper on that list of people tipped to be the next Doctor. Either one of those would take some explaining...

[thatmakesmemad.livejournal.com]

Please please let it be a white person. Not that i have anything against a non white Doctor just against my mother, who has become somewhat racially intolerant in her old age, going on about it.
Hmm have just got back from a trip to the Back of Beyond and Sweeney and Todds in Reading