New Series [contains casting spoilers]

ROSE !!!!!!!!!

Can't wait.

omg John Simm! This is immensely great news. I wonder how they will pull it off with him having played the Master as well.

John Simm..? Really..? no, no, no. Keep him coming back as the Master, but leave the Doctor for someone else. Preferably keep Mr. Tennant...

I mean, it wouldn't make sense. (because regeneration in general is so logical and real ) Why would the Doctor end up regenerating to look like the Master's latest regeneration? I mean what are the odds? I just hope they're not going to "fuse" the Doctor and the Master somehow and thus end up with the Master's looks. They wouldn't dare... At least I hope not.

Yeah.. well, I'm not to keen on the idea of Simm as the Doctor, but then again.. I didn't feel to well about trading away Eccleston after the first season. And that proved me wrong, sense Tennant's been a wonderful Doctor!

My point is, I don't like it, but apparently I'm not an expert... and the experts on doctor who have a neck of making things, that I don't like, work!

I'm getting ready for the new Christmas episode in a couple of day's. Anyone know where Mad Martha will be posting the usual flawless torrent?

John Simm worked so well as The Master, it would be a damned shame to use the actor to play The Doctor.  Honest. Creating truly diabolical villains is a much harder task than finding heroes. And finding actors who can truly sell a diabolical villain, is even harder. Simm's did for The Master what Eccleston/Tennant have done for The Doctor. It's rare in a television program when you can get lightening to strike so often. Keep him as The Master, and run with that.

Anyway, caught Voyage of the Damned. Damned good episode, but that is to be expected from the Xmas specials. Also caught the bit of Series 30 spoiler at the end. Lot of good stuff, some real potential spoilers there, including something that looked like the return of Davros (or maybe that was a Sontaran, either way its about time). Bits and pieces of The Rani and some other niceties for Whovians, new and old. All in all, series 30 looks to be shaping up to be fantastic. And if it is to be the final full season with Tennent, Russell T. Davies (and crew), then it would appear they are looking to go out on a bang. Always leave'm wanting more.

Oh, and just to answer the question. A Timelord gets 12 regenerations for a total of 13 incarnations. David Tennent is Doctor #10, so when he wraps up his tenure as The Doctor in 2009 (2008 gets a full season and 2009 gets a series of Doctor Who television specials, but not a full season), there will only be 3 Doctors left. If you factor in three to four years per Doctor after that, you are looking at another nine to twelve years of the program. I would expect another decade of hiatus following that, and then for the BBC to either reset the entire Doctor Who universe and start over again, or finally get the right people together to launch a worthy and successful series of Doctor Who feature films. The property is too embedded into UK culture to let it go permanently off the air.

As for the return of past Doctors, it's about time (pun intended). One of the nice things about the series has been the time to time return of past incarnations and how they play off each other. So I guess it'll be The Four Doctors this time around: David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston, Paul McGann and (one of my favs) Sylvester McCoy. That should be a hoot.

PS - The new theme arrangement rocks.

PPS - Mentioning episodes with past Doctors. If you get the chance to catch Time Crash, the Children in Need special that bridges series 29 with the Christmas special, I think that you are in for a very special treat. Enjoy!