# Dr WHO - 5/21

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-5-21/304968>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 22, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-5-21/304968 "2005-05-22T18:02:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-5-21/304968/21 "2005-05-27T10:57:39Z")

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> [@The Gaspode](#):
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> I understand the concern about type casting, but I don’t think two seasons would do that.

I think I read that the BBC came out and apologised, said they’d made up the quote about typecasting. I can’t remember what he really WAS worried about, but it wasn’t that I don’t think. He was said to look less than chuffed when a journalist commented that this would be what he’d be remembered for… maybe that had been where the idea of typecasting came from.

Dunno. I thought I read it in the Guardian but I can’t find it in their online archive. Could have been Private Eye. Somebody a bit high-up at the BBC looked like a twit, though, and had to make an apology, presumably at Ecclestone’s behest. I think they had panicked when challenged by journalists about whether or not he’d be staying on, so they made up a generic quote on the spot rather than say nothing.

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**Author:** ![Sir\_Doris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Sir\_Doris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Doris)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-5-21/304968/22 "2005-05-27T11:00:59Z")

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I get the impression Michelle Ryan is quite staturesque (them’s some big shoulders she’s got). I only saw the new bloke in a couple of clips, but he looked fairly slight. No macho slinging her over his shoulder, if my perceptions are correct. Which would be unusual. And it would take a bit of getting used to, not having Big Mo riding to the rescue.  
Jennifer Ellison would have to be abandoned on a distant planet pretty damn soon, unless she can do another accent. Just thinking about how she’d say “Doctor” is making me shiver.

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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-who-5-21/304968/23 "2005-05-27T11:22:42Z")

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> [@yojimbo](#):
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> Ohh, Michelle Ryan is hot hot hot and can act. I hope she gets it.
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> Jennifer Ellison’s accent would just drive me up the wall.

I think the accent would annoy most people, so I don’t think she’ll get the role.

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