# "MY Arse" says Doctor Who **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881 "2003-11-18T11:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/1 "2003-11-18T11:17:52Z")
[Ricky Tomlinson Wants to be Doctor Who](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_839257.html?menu=news.quirkies) Sign him up! Id like to see him take on the daleks! ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/2 "2003-11-18T11:31:03Z")
Apparently it’s going to be Richard E Grant. Anyone else think they won’t be able to watch it without expecting him to say “I feel like a pig shat in my head!” at any moment? Oh yeah, and whichone of you told me it was going to be Eddie Izzard?! Come on, own up… ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/3 "2003-11-18T11:50:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jennyrosity \* > \*\*Oh yeah, and whichone of you told me it was going to be Eddie Izzard?! Come on, own up… \*\* That was Tom Baker having a bubble on BBC Radio a few weeks ago. A lot of people fell for it. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/4 "2003-11-18T11:54:39Z")
I’d like a Doctor Who that doesn’t look like he smells of farts. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/5 "2003-11-18T12:02:56Z")
**jjimm** - why don’t you apply? Quite apart from the fact that you don’t look like you smell of farts, you’d be excellent as the Doc and we’d have our bona fide SDMB celebrity. In fact, now as I think of it, we could cast the whole thing from the SDMB. Any volunteers to be **jjimm** ’s lovely nubile young assistant? And yes, **Jennyrosity** , I’m looking at you with your abding love of all things **jjimm**. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/6 "2003-11-18T12:05:33Z")
I perceive a slight lack of mysterious charisma problem… However, Sylvester McCoy once bought me a pint of Guinness, so maybe that would help my chances. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/7 "2003-11-18T12:07:10Z")
Where do I sign??! (Ha, I knew I’d get my big break eventually!) ---
**Author:** ![Gmork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gmork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gmork)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/8 "2003-11-18T14:51:33Z")
**Bill Nighy** is the other person being shouted about as a possibility. He would be great, I think. No idea what he thinks about it. Also, I think there was a BBC poll done recently, and some guy who is on Buffy (ick) was in the lead. I prefer some of the people who came close behind him: **Alan Rickman, Alan Davies** & **Ian Richardson** All of whom could pull it off certainly, but **Rickman** and **Richardson** have pretty good film careers that they would be sensible not to endanger, which is what jumping to a TV series can do. **Bill Nighy** also has that to think about. **Alan Davies** , at this stage, would probably want to turn the role down and avoid the likelihood of being forever typecast as a ‘mysterious oddball type’ , considering his stint as Jonathon Creek. My rant is done. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/9 "2003-11-18T15:02:12Z")
Richard E. Grant is playing the Doctor in the BBCi (web-based) animated production, titled “Scream of the Shalka”. Tom Baker suggested Eddie Izzard, and a number of people seem to have concluded that that’s authoritative, though there’s no basis for this that I know about. Alan Davies, Bill Nighy and Ian Richardson have been seriously suggested; ISTR Anthony (“Giles from Buffy”) Head was rumoured to have been approached, but denied it later. All public sources of information (the only ones to which I have any access) seem to agree that the new series is still in planning stages, and no firm casting decision has been made. And, **jjimm** , you have at least as much mysterious charisma as Colin Baker ever did … ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/10 "2003-11-19T03:08:58Z")
Rowan Atkinson’s also been rumoured. I think we can probably rule out all or most of the rumoured persons as simple misdirection. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/11 "2003-11-19T04:12:10Z")
“Are women totally out of contention?” he said, not knowing much about the requirements of timelordshipness. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/12 "2003-11-19T06:18:39Z")
Am I the first to make the requisite Dalek Bumps joke? ---
**Author:** ![Gmork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gmork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gmork)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-arse-says-doctor-who/213881/13 "2003-11-19T08:02:09Z")
**Andrew T** - I think I also read rumours that Joanna Lumley (who was actually in the spoof episode 'Curse of Fatal Death) had been requested repeatedly by fans - no idea whether she has been considered at a management level though. I don’t think a great many people would have serious problems with a female Time Lord (I don’t, but, you know, I’m female). I think the only real problem that the real long-term, hard-core fans would have, if they had one, would simply be that after 30-something years of male doctors - it just may be hard to get used to. I’ve heard people complain, not on grounds of gender-bias, but just that you shouldn’t tamper - ever - with a winning formula. **Tengu** - I think you are the first! Congratulations and a chocolate biscuit to you.