It’s a genuine tragedy that Doctor Who was only able to get her for a glorified cameo before she became utterly unaffordable for them, but you can’t say she didn’t sell the hell out of it.

Honestly good with that either way.  If she wants to go the full Theron and spend her perimenopausal years punching dudes in the face for a lot of money, I’m here for it.

It’s actually one of the things I love about British actors: they take the job seriously, but they’re also serious about the fact that it’s a job first and foremost. Want Olivia Colman or Ian McKellan or (notoriously) Michael Caine to show up and lend your bullshit production a completely unearned air of gravitas?…

I hope Olivia Colman gets to buy a very nice house with the paycheck here.

It’s always the ones you completely expect.

If you want to revisit High Risk by, you know, actually watching the movie rather than watching some youtube doofus talk to himself over it, it’s probably worth mentioning that it’s not available under that name! The current rentable US version is called “Meltdown”.

I’m not entirely thrilled myself, but that ship has definitely sailed, and given the current state of the show and its ratings I can’t really blame RTD for doing something attention-getting.

I don’t know what to tell you: RTD likes convoluted and silly scripts, David Tennant and Catherine Tate have been repeatedly seen doing location shoots with Neil Patrick Harris, and Ncuti Gatwa was busy filming the Barbie movie for most of this spring and summer. There’s no air date for the 60th yet so maybe they’ve…

You 100% have me there.

This. Is an explicitly gay Doctor a good idea? God fucking knows, but you know what’s a great idea? Letting someone who’s capable of telling interesting stories run the show again. I’ll happily take a single season of RTD in full adderall-buzz lunacy mode over five years of Chibnall producing primarily a dull 60Hz hum.…

so we’ll presumably see him after Whittaker’s regeneration, as is tradition

Yeah, it’s hard to overstate how absolutely inescapable she was in the late 70s and early 80s. Even if you didn’t like her stuff, odds are that if you’re over the age of 45 you can probably recite most of the lyrics to Magic by heart.

There’s a probably apocryphal story where Shaka Zulu got his first up-close look at a Dutch rifle and opined basically that it was a great distance weapon but you were gonna have a hard time reloading it while you had five dudes sticking their spears through you.

Same, but I’m assuming that in a couple of months it’ll show up on itunes/play/etc.

For real — this is the first concept for a Predator sequel/prequel that really holds its own weight, and it’s crazy that it took them over 30 years to get here.

Can’t tell if trolling or serious -- G’Kar was a character on Babylon 5, and WMS had two different non-recurring parts on that show.  (The Soul Hunter in season 1, and G’Kar’s uncle in I think season 3.)

Goddamnit, is Shatner gonna outlive all of them? Everyone form a human shield around George Takei.

W. Morgan Sheppard was a character actor’s character actor. The man simply never stopped working, and was everywhere. As far as I know he’s the only living actor to have speaking credits on Star Trek, Babylon 5 and Doctor Who, not to mention Seaquest, Max Headroom, Day of the Triffids and Quantum Leap. (It’s god’s own…

I’m cautiously excited, but damnit -- they couldn’t have done this while W. Morgan Sheppard was still alive?

*zap* “It’s a good question.”