Goodbye David Tennant. Hello Doctor who?

[IndianaGreen]

Goodbye David Tennant. Hello Doctor who?

Farewell David Tennant, and our grateful thanks for your sterling four years at the helm of the Tardis. We had such fun, didn't we? Perhaps you should consider handing over your sonic screwdriver to one of the following …

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Bill Nighy

Missed out when the role went to Christopher Eccleston. Was superb and somewhat doctorish as the newspaper editor in State of Play.

Stephen Fry

Would be hugely popular in the role. And talented enough to mould the part into something new. But would the ultimate renaissance man surrender 10 months of his life and his plethora of TV appearances for a single part? Eccleston found it gruelling and left after just one year.

Alexander Armstrong

At a loose end now that he has pulled out of hosting Countdown at the 11th hour. But the Doctor as a hooray henry?

James Nesbitt

The Cold Feet star has been connected with the role, even on the pages of MediaGuardian.co.uk, but it is hard to see fans warming to him.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2008/oct/30/doctorwho-bbc

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. He has been a great Dr Who

[phantom power]

2. Even though I don't know the others, I'm going to vote for Bill Nighy.

I shouldn't vote for anything. I don't even watch Dr. Who, but I did like him in Hitchikers.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Bill Nighy is appearing in the upcoming Underworld: Rise Of the Lycans

and he has a supporting role in a new WWII Tom Cruise movie on the Hitler assassination attempt. I can't recall the name of the Cruise movie.

Stephen Fry will make a great Doctor. He played the TV comedy show hostin the film "V" that is killed after mocking the supreme chancellor.

[Deja Q]

4. Paterson Joseph, from what I've seen him in the past, would make a great Doctor...

And he was Roderick in that 9th Doctor story "Parting of the Ways" - he's a serious, well rounded actor.

Find "Neverwhere" if you can -- shot on video and not given the film look, sadly, but Paterson's performance as the Maquis de Carabas sold me as a terrific Doctorish character. And that was ~1998...