And the word is out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23570354]Peter Capaldi, whom I've never heard of, and whom I've never seen in anything.
Then again, that was true of practically all the other Doctors, so I'm not exactly bothered or anything by it.
ETA: On the subject of former Doctors... Peg's been watching a series called
The Monarch of the Glen on Netflix for the last week or two (and watching, and watching, and watching...) I stumbled across one episode where the main character's elderly ne'er-do-well uncle shows up -- tall fellow, rather portly, close-cropped white hair not quite short enough to be called a crewcut. And a rather prominent nose. Looked faintly familiar, but a lot of actors in that show are familiar -- one of the early leads was the guy who played Hero's father in Kenneth Branaugh's version of
Much Ado About Nothing, and the very episode with this uncle in it also had Anthony Stewart Head. So lots of faces I recognized.
Imagine my surprise when I read the credits and discovered that this vaguely familiar old man was
Tom Baker. I had Peg rewind and studied him until I could say, "oh my god, it
is him..." At which point I reminded myself I was 51 now, and not the 18-year-old whose first exposure to
Doctor Who was the Fourth Doctor...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
