Oh no... :(
Catherine Tate will playing Doctor Who's new companion next season, so reports the BBC.
For what it's worth, I've already sent my numbing disappointment to the BBC, but I'm afraid it's a done deal.
I couldn't stand that fucking Christmas episode, and I can't sit through an entire season with her. I just can't.
Bollocks. :(
For what it's worth, I've already sent my numbing disappointment to the BBC, but I'm afraid it's a done deal.
I couldn't stand that fucking Christmas episode, and I can't sit through an entire season with her. I just can't.
Bollocks. :(
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The obligatory RTD "comedy" chav count has now been restored ("one of Britain's greatest talents", indeed!).
Although as I've said before: she actually surprised me in The Runaway Bride - I was expecting her to be far worse. But that still doesn't mean that she was good rather than passable, will RTD let her play it straight for a whole series, and how long will it be before she's making doe eyes at the Doctor and/or catfighting with Martha over it?
I must say that (as much as I dislike her alleged "comedy" and mystifying level of adulation) it'll make a change in terms of New Who to have a companion who's not young, trendy and conventionally "pretty" - but I'm wondering how long she'll stay that way, or whether or not the fact that Donna isn't a fashion plate, as smart as Martha or as... ummm... *struggles for redeeming quality* blonde as Rose is going to become as big a running joke as Jackie Tyler.
I'm sorry, but I'm getting a little uneasy about the way that the female companion is being portrayed as a Cinderella figure. I'm fine with the idea of them mentally getting their horizons expanded, but I don't like the way that this is outwarlly shown by them having to look gradually more fashionable and "sexy". Can't we have one who's just happy to look like themselves, or who's shown as dressing up to make themselves look/feel good rather than because they're constantly on the pull?
(Rosie-Sue Tyler, I'm looking at you. Hence I'll miss Martha - who at least drew a line, if I thought that it was for the wrong reasons.)
And "a whole host of guest stars", eh?
Argh! Will someone please tell RTD that celebrity doesn't equal talent?
It's perfectly possible to make a decent small-screen drama on a sensible budget with actual actors. I'm increasingly feeling as though I'm watching a dramatised version of the Spotted! column of The Sun.
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