You know I really think he might.

The UK air times since the revamp vary a bit in fact, Ecclestone/Tennant were mostly 6:30 ish but they've got progressively later. Most of Capaldi's run has been 8 pm or later (which may be partly responsible for the slight dip in UK live ratings). Back in the day it was usually around 5:25 pm (after the football…

You know that one of the few things that would incite a re-invasioning of the US by the UK would be a non-Brit Doctor right ? It's actually in our constitution.

Yeah I don't think either of the last two regenerations were bland. I can understand plenty of complaints being levelled at 'Deep Breath' but bland isn't really one of them and 'The Eleventh Hour' is just a great episode all round.

Wasn't Paterson Joseph one of the people rumoured to have been offered it that turned it down ? A couple of years back it came out that a black actor had already been offered the part but didn't want it and I thought Joseph was one of the leading contenders.

"Who frowned me this face? Why this one? Why did I choose this face?"

Yeah, there are worse choices but I wonder about Siddig playing the clown, he seems a bit too sophisticated for that to work.

He's much more of a return to a traditional style of Doctor. Which isn't for everyone (fans that only jumped on for the revamp may have particular trouble with it).

Without checking i'm reasonably sure it wasn't on at the same time twice in a row when it aired in the UK. That by itself could contribute to a live ratings drop. Then there's the somewhat darker tone and generally later broadcast time (which makes it harder to watch live with younger kids).

Haven't seen it so for me it hasn't been made yet.

She is and so maybe a bit unlikely to commit to a 9 month per year shooting schedule in Cardiff.

Bowie McBowface

I thought the same but wonder if they're just acknowledging that what's _thought_ to be a fact can turn out not to be (by which I mean it never was a fact, we were just mistaken and NOT that facts are malleable). E.g. until around 1998 it was presented as a fact that the expansion of the universe was slowing, after…

For UK journalism I think this may be the current high bar for persistance:

Yeah, makes sense it'd be something like that. However much it may deserve to, ordinarily I don't see it beating "The Big Bang Theory" in a popular vote (let alone winning as a show in a couple of categories and its leads winning in theirs too).

Super-strength was the intent but in Daisy's Dad's case it ended up causing a more Hyde like personality change as well as physical deformity to go along with his strength (Hyde is a reference to Jekyll and Hyde BTW, Daisy's dad is called Cal Zabo, a Marvel character).

You know comedy, no doubt (coincidentally, my favourite comedy band).

Wow, the American public _really_ likes 'Outlander' huh ?

Perceptions vary of course. As an example though, I remember Natalie Dormer's first time on there where she started playing the [chat show] game rather than just talking to him like a human and you could see his attitude change pretty much straight away, it's almost like he basically wrote the interview off as a bust.…

Yeah I rememeber watching at the time and that seemed really harsh. Have you seen the Big Red Chair special that aired in the week after New Year though ? They interviewed the guy on there and it was actually slightly more setup than it seemed - he apparently tweeted some jokey comment a couple of days beforehand to…