Who Should Be the 11th Doctor?

• Bill Nighy
• Sam Troughton
• Sean Pertwee
• Tracey Ullman
• Rik Mayall
• Jason Thomas Kocher
• Michael Palin
• David Walliams
• David Morrissey

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One of the tenants of the ever enduring cosmos of Doctor Who that make it just so enduring is the titular character’s ability to regenerate.

In the reality of the TV show, this means that should the Doctor be mortally injured, all of his cells die and are instantaneously regenerated causing the character to take on a whole new physical look and scrambling his brain just so as to change his personality. In this, you have a character who is immortal, but for whom danger still deposits a lump of coal in the heart of the audience should they lose the current Doctor to whom they have become so sentimentally attached.

In the reality of the entertainment business, this means you have an incredible franchise where you need not worry should the actor that plays the title character [...]

If Neil Gaiman writes an episode of Doctor Who, the plot will revolve around:

• Some random pre-existing mythology. Spin the wheel…
• Shakespeare meeting Shakespeare and having a threesome with an alien Shakespeare.
• Hailing Satan.
• The Cybermen rebuilt in the image of Morrisey.
• Something otherwise brilliant…

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Doctor Who is a brilliant show. If you are not familiar with it, the general premise follows a mostly quirky Time Lord (alien-type) referred to only as The Doctor, travelling anywhere and everywhere in time and space. When gravely injured, he regenerates into different forms (actors) so that he lives more or less forever in, what should be, increasingly marketable forms.

Given the almost unlimited nature of such a show, its no wonder that it lasted upwards of 26 years until some smart guy took the reigns and started stapling question marks all over everything and the general consensus in England was that it would be best if the show didn’t exist for a few decades.

Despite continuing on in other media and a failed re-launch in 1998, it didn’t really resurface until 2005 when [...]

This movie…is not as good as I think it is.

But my thoughts will not change on the matter. I was raised by my parents. When they weren’t looking, I was raised by Nick at Nite, on such shows as Gilligan’s Island, F Troop, The Addams Family and, most of all, Get Smart.

These were ridiculous, escapist comedies that had their own unique worlds and rules. For me, this feeling was markedly intensified 20 to 30 years after their original airing, like a lost signal of a parallel universe providing a black and white static to lose oneself from the modern world.

Watching these shows helped me, at a such a young age, to so quickly become such an old and crotchety man, denigrating modern TV comedy for its lack of imagination…no longer providing an absurdist or [...]