I couldn't get into Torchwood. Swearing and sex didn't make it adult. Adult behaviour, yes, but not adult storytelling. Doctor Who was more sophisticated. But people do keep urging me to watch Children of Earth. One day, maybe, if I ever get the chance.

Yes. No real care seemed to be have been taken with it.

Nothing's been confirmed, HalGal. We're still on tenterhooks.

You raise an interesting question HalGal...about Damien being locked into a role for years, I think i have aired my views on this too... it would be incredible for Damien to be the next doctor, but that is all he could be..for years! But it would also guarantee world fame and if he could avoid typecasting then any role could be his after that.

I also agree with you fifi about the nature of the show....very much enjoyed your ramble by the way (if only you could see my nodding) and the writing...well the last series was very hard for me to get into, with the exception of final episode which was insanely AWESOME both on a WHO level and world class TV... and up there with the best ever episodes of Doctor Who for me. But I do feel Damien can elevate any material so....

The audience is a different demographic and i felt the last series was very child centric..on the whole..

From a webmistress point of view I am not sure what it would mean for the sites...our small corner of the web may become swallowed up whole by the MASSIVE Doctor Who web machine that already exists out there..or we could expand like a wild thing...(or somewhere in between lol)



So.....irrespective of what happens...would we want Damo as The next Doctor.... or not?

'So.....irrespective of what happens...would we want Damo as The next Doctor.... or not? '

I think I've already demonstrated enough indecision on this question to excuse myself from answering!

 

 

I would like to see him in the role but for the selfish reason that we'd get to see him on our screens for longer than six or eight episodes and that the publicity for Doctor Who is huge, it does not get ignored (unlike the final series of Being Human, thanks BBC Three) but i brought up the subject of the loss of privacy and his current (relatively) easy accessibility. I want him to be more successful than he is, we know he's talented, I want everyone else to see that too. I want to be able to see him on TV and think 'we saw that talent before anyone else did'.

But i'm not going to build my hopes up because if he doesn't get the role, I don't want to have to deal with the sharp disappointment. It's a tough one.

It seems that no-one really knows for sure if they want this to happen or not!!

 

The rumour is that an announcement may happen either sometime next month or in August as filming for the Christmas special is due to commence September time. It's also gone very quiet on the Doctor Who front, no new names have been suggested in two or three weeks.

Gives mindblowing audition, eh? Now I'd like to be that casting director!

Forgive me if I'm posting something everyone's already seen and I'm late to the party (as usual).  Actually I wasn't really interested in this article for the sake of making a case for Damien as the next Dr, but I just saw this and loved the description of Damien's portrayal of Hal so much that I wanted to post it somewhere.  

http://screenrant.com/doctor-who-season-8-twelfth-doctor-12-casting/

 

Damo's on the 3rd page...

"This casting choice has actually been mentioned in a few other places, but might not be obvious to those who haven't seen the UK version of Being Human, which Molony starred in for the last two seasons. Molony isn't yet a big-name actor, but there's a lot about him that just screams 'Doctor'. For starters, his best-known role to date is as a slightly out of touch, centuries-old creature with a tortured past and a rather quaint dress sense.

Molony has more than typecasting going for him, though. While his performance in Being Human is occasionally a little overly theatrical, his ability to switch from stammering, obsessive-compulsive neuroticism to haughty outrage and then to cold-hearted psychopathy, all within the same character and in the space of a single episode, is incredibly impressive, as is the unreserved way in which he throws himself into the role. Now that Being Human has come to an end, Molony is sure to move on to bigger things: could Doctor Who be one of them?"

 

I'm not sure where this person is getting "overly theatrical" (IMO the only time that's been the case is possibly when he does good Hal changing into bad Hal in the chair and deleted scene) but YES, YES, to this part:

"his ability to switch from stammering, obsessive-compulsive neuroticism to haughty outrage and then to cold-hearted psychopathy, all within the same character and in the space of a single episode, is incredibly impressive, as is the unreserved way in which he throws himself into the role."

Reading that just made me all inside.  That's all I wanted to say. 

Thanks whimsy - this is, indeed, a lovely read...

With the recent Ripper Street excitement, I'm feeling it's less and less likely that Damien will be cast as the 12th Doctor.  (I'm not entirely sure how likely I thought it was....you never can tell with these things.....)  I can't really see him being revealed as the next Dr Who at Christmas, and then shortly afterwards appearing in a number (?) of episodes of Ripper Street - regardless of how big, or small that part may be - and the coming back in the spring as Dr Who.  That would just be weird wouldn' it?  Or am I just being pessimistic......or optimistic, depending on where you stand!