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Doctor Who news round-up: Matt Smith, Steven Moffat and Peter Davison
Simon Brew
Lots of stories have been popping up, so here’s our round-up. Featuring Steven Moffat, Peter Davison and Matt Smith…
Published on Oct 26, 2011
Let’s start this Doctor Who round-up with Peter Davison. With the show’s 50th birthday coming up in 2013, speculation is rife that lots of old Doctors will be invited back in some form (mainly because, er, that's what's happened before). This is fan guesswork, to be fair, and the fact that Christopher Eccleston has already ruled out any kind of return does make the return of all the living Doctors very unlikely.
Peter Davison, though, whose DVD commentaries on Doctor Who releases are a hoot, if you’ve never tried one, has said that he doesn’t think he’ll be getting an invite to return to the show (as he did when he appeared opposite David Tennant in the Children In Need special, Time Crash).
Talking to BangShowbiz, he said that “I feel no need to turn my back on [a guest appearance] but I don't feel like it's the kind of thing they'd do. I'd be very surprised if they tried to do anything involving the old Doctors.”
We'll wait and see, but Steven Moffat has already teased that he has big plans for the show's birthday...
Doctor Who Confidential
Meanwhile, Steven Moffat has criticised the decision by the BBC to axe Doctor Who Confidential. The show got the chop last month, bringing to an end the behind the scenes look at Doctor Who that had been running since the programme returned to our screens in 2005.
Moffat told Doctor Who Magazine that "I'm not supposed to say it, but I'm going to anyway: Bad day, bad decision… I know we're all at sea and the night is colder but you don't start burning the lifeboats to keep warm."
He went on to say that "All shows have their time and all shows end but not, in all sanity, while people still watch and love them."
He's clearly made some friends at The Sun, incidentally, who lace their report of the story with phrases like "the prickly producer" and "Angry Moffat". We think The Sun had some spare adjectives to use up from their quota of grumpy ones. That said, The Prickly Producer and Angry Moffat sound like terrific titles for future Doctor Who baddies...
Matt Smith
Finally, Matt Smith has sparked rumours that he’ll be hanging up his sonic screwdriver, when VH1 asked him if he was planning on working in America anytime soon. "Well, hopefully soon, you know”, he told them. "I've got another year of Doctor Who but then I'm certainly going to come and give it a shot, come and hang out in LA."
With the usual disclaimer that none of this is official, nor had it been confirmed in any form, this does tie into the belief that Matt Smith will leave the show in 2013, as part of its 50th birthday year. It must be true. It says it on the Internet.
We’ll keep you posted…
BangShowbiz
VH1