Ah, for that you’ll have to wait until Saturday 3rd January at 5:35pm when it’s going to be announced as part of the Doctor Who Confidential on BBC1. (BBC News story)
But tomorrow may finally prove that you should always back Rich Johnston’s predictions early at the bookies. He made his prediction for Patterson Joseph on October 13th:
“My last couple of Doctor Who leaks were fairly solid — Neil Gaiman to write 2010 “Doctor Who” and Tom Baker returning to the series proper in an unnamed role. Both have been bubbling under ever since. The next one is not so tied down. It’s still rather up in the air. But it’s quite a possibility.
The sixth series of “Doctor Who” (2011) will star Patterson Joseph as The Doctor.
Previously playing Roderick in the “Doctor Who” episodes “Bad Wolf”/”Parting Of Ways,” Joseph is known for fine upstanding and terribly-well-spoken-dontcha-know roles as Johnson in “Peep Show,” the Marquis De Carabas in “Neverwhere,” Space Marshall Clarke in “Hyperdrive,” Lyndon in “Green Wing”……and more importantly Benjamin in “Jekyll.” Written and produced by upcoming “Doctor” Who showrunner, Steven Moffat.”
I imagine the odds would have been fantastic then, as opposed to todays 10-11 (bet £10 to win = £9 profit). I’ll kick myself and promise to always listen early if Patterson Joseph is finally confirmed tomorrow. Update (thanks Rich via Twitter): The odds were 14-1 back in October.
And of course, there are equally strong predictions that it will be someone else: Craig McGill has Sean Pertwee and Chiwetel Ejiofor neck and neck. But he’s also put up a very nicely thought out post on why the announcement is so early and why that means it’s probably going to be either Paterson Joseph or Chiwetel Ejiofor.
But we’ll know soon enough. We know where we’ll be Saturday 3rd January at 5:35.
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
I’m thinking it might be David Morrissey. Oh I know he turned out to be human. But him and The Doctor had such a great bonding that he just might decide to regenerate with his face. It’s proven that the producers are such liars (“Oh no, Billie Piper is NOT coming back.” But she did.) and just might thrown in a title like “THE NEXT DOCTOR” to try to confuse us. But then when the time comes they’ll turn around and say “Oh but the title of the Christmas special ought to have been a dead giveaway!” and then giggle naughtily at having fooled us all.
Of course, I could be wrong.
If it turns out to be indeed Paterson, he’s going to have to work double hard to erase the pathetic yelping money hungry yapper in “Bad Wolf” that he did so well. For some reason, it’s hard to get my head wrapped around the notion of a Doctor who I *already* saw on Doctor Who as a pathetic yelping money hungry yapper.
But then David Tennant was good enough to erase Barty Crouch Jr. from my mind so let’s see!
Companion? Sally Sparrow would be brilliant. Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale would make a great companion tag team. And best of all, they first appeared in an episode that Steven Moffat wrote. They were great characters so I’m sure they’ll be back.
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 am
Rich Johnston thinks Paterson Joseph will be the doctor in the sixth series in 2011, what about the fifth series in 2010?
Also that article written by Craig McGill is not very nicely thought out at all, it’s full of media clap trap and spin, the doctor must be black because of the early release of the information and Barack Obama, oh come on please, the next doctor might well be black but that won’t be the reason for the early release, it’s all down to what happened when David Tennant got the role as the leak wouldn’t have been long in happening and doing it this way gives the BBC total control and a huge ratings success tonight,
January 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Nice Post….keep it up !!!! Good job
John Lochrie