Thanks for my friend Kirstin for this post but looks like the hunt is on for who is going to be the next Doctor.
The BBC now has an official story on David Tennant's departure:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm
The rumor mill has kicked into high
gear, and if you're a betting person, here are some published odds,
courtesy of Outpost Gallifrey:
WILLIAM HILL ODDS ON NEXT DOCTOR (30th Oct 2008)
5/2 David Morrissey
3/1 Patterson Joseph
6/1 James McAvoy
7/1 James Nesbitt, Robert Carlyle
8/1 John Simm, Rhys Ifans
12/1 Anthony Head
14/1 Alan Davies, Jason Statham
16/1 Nigel Harman, Bill Nighy
25/1 Daniel Radcliffe, Burn Gorman
33/1 Stephen Fry, John Barrowman
20/1 Next Doctor To Be Female
50/1 Christopher Eccleston
Other rumors are out for a whole lot of
others, including Catherine Tate, Peter Purves, Sean Pertwee, and so
on. We can expect to see probably every male actor in Britain between
the ages of 30 and 70 being suggested, and quite a few of the female
ones as well.
To futher add something interesting to the mix Kirstin did some calculations for us:
Average lifespan of a Doctor: 3.2
seasons
Average # of stories: 20.3
Average # of episodes: 76.4
Average age at first transmission: 41.6
Five Doctors were born in London (one was raised in
Manchester); two in or near Liverpool, one in Manchester, and two in Scotland
(though one -- Sylvester McCoy -- was raised in Ireland). So the average
new Doctor is apparently 42 years old and born in
London.
I'm looking up stats on some of the rumored Doctors
now
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