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The Eleven Doctors Special for Children In Need?
The Daily Mirror is reporting that all eleven Doctors will be coming together for a special one-off special for Children in Need this November. It reports that the 15 minute episode will be included in BBC1 annual Children In Need appeal in November and shooting of it will begin in September.
This is not the first time a rumour of this nature appeared in the tabloids. The same thing was said to be happening last year for Children in Need except with 10 Doctors which did not happen.
The article states that "images from their original shows, stretching from 1966 to 1974" will be used for the actors William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, and Jon Pertwee who have since passed away. They will make cameo appearances through footage from these previous episodes.
It states the living actors have all waived their fee for this charitable venture.
"This is a momentous episode for all Doctor Who fans. Never before have all the Doctors been in the same room, let alone in the same show," their unnamed source says as stated in the article.
It continues, "...the script has already been started and it’s classic Doctor Who – really witty and very sharp."
"Viewers will see the Time Lords regenerating and emerging one by one from the TARDIS, each with their own quirky opening line."
The BBC has not confirmed this story. According to the article, they only confirmed that there would be a Doctor Who special for Children in Need. This is not surprising as Doctor Who has had a good tradition of having special offerings for the Children in Need appeal.
All of this information is unconfirmed and should be treated as such.
Source: Mirror.co.uk - Doctor Who exclusive: All 11 timelords to unite for mission
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Isn't this just exactly the same story that they ran this time last year (basically word for word!) except that this time Matt Smith is in it?
Unconfirmed? Total nonsense if you ask me!!!!!
(Although, I suspect that the 3rd treat that RTD has promised will be a pretty cool Children in Need thing!)
While the story sounds good we get a report from digital spy discounting the story:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a161598/bbc-denies-doctor-who-reunion-reports.html
Meanwhile the is a story on the official 'Doctor Who' site that reports Mark Gattis is doing a documentary on the show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/news/latest/090623_news_01
...and the good thing is - it's not region-locked:
here is a link to the show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l59rk
enjoy.
Digital Spy isn't reporting anything that was not already in the Mirror article. The same was pointed out in our article as well.
It is the same story that was circulating last year, plus one more Doctor. It didn't happen then either.
Yep, we covered that as well. It is a good documentary. Be sure to catch while it is available. Mark Gatiss Documentary on Doctor Who Target Novelisations
This smells fishy to me. Oh wait it is from the mirror? That explains it!!
Hmmm. Who wrote the last two multi-Doctor charity specials? A chap by the name of Moffat.
Hmmm. A BBC denial. Doesn't that mean it's true?
With the state of journalism in this day and age, it is hard to judge whether there even is a kernel of truth to this story.
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Let us not forget we have not seen Doctor 11 yet. So would it be some weird advance look at him? Which would give away his costume unless it is just after regeneration, which would make DT's Dr know his regeneration is defiantly imminent.
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David Tennant's comments about this story (from an interview in the Chicago Tribune):
Source: It's the beginning of the end of David Tennant's run on 'Doctor Who' (The Watcher | Chicagotribune.com)
“Nothing has been finalised yet, although there is discussion of a Children in Need Doctor Who special. It is too early to say what.” ... liposuction
Well it will be great to see these doctors again. I still remember the series in my older days in which they launched an eating disorder treatment program. It was a great series and I expect the remake to be even better.
Could be a bit weird with half the cast dead or severely aged. They could always recast most of them but sensitive fans might get their knickers in a knot. Will be great to McGann and Eccleston again.
The Sun reports in their paper that Tom Baker would like to come back for a special. Ther's one catch - he wants to 'vet the script'.
Here is a link to the Sun article:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2564608/Tom-Baker-keen-to-return-to-Doctor-Who.html
The Telegraph reports a similar story here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/5942592/Tom-Baker-interested-in-Doctor-Who-reunion.html
Will this actually happen? Probably not, but it's nice to know that he's willing to do it.
Insistence on veting the script isn't all that unusual. There's not much point in appearing in a special if the story isn't worth the trouble. If the story is written by Steven Moffat himself though, I'm sure it would be good enough to make Tom interested, assuming the story is true in the first place. Tom's stories often tended to lean on the scary side, and Steven's scripts have the same tendancies.
Enter: The Conquering Chicken
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He probably would not. He thought he might like to play the Master...and as horrible as that sounds I bet he'd do a better job of it than Sim
While it's certainly true that the last time we got any quote from Tom on the matter, he had mentioned playing The Master, it's also true that until recently he had no interest in reprising the role of The Doctor in any way. Now, he's been confirmed as doing a series of audio books/dramas for the BBC. If he's willing to change is stance for audio, he may be interested in something more mainstream.
Unfortunately, this may also be the thinking of an enterprising tabloid reporter who decided it might sound believable enough to sell a few papers to some Tom Baker fans (who are legion).
Enter: The Conquering Chicken
Issue 411 just came out and his answer was an emphatic NO to the question if, as Peter Davison had done in TIME CRASH, he would ever do a special. He then went on to discuss his "Master" idea. This interview was very recent and the issue came out this month or just last month.
I'd say I was crushed, but I'm far too cynical for that.
Enter: The Conquering Chicken
If they were planning on something like TIME CRASH, I'm overly glad. Can you imagine it? Tennant or maybe Smith mugging it up at Tom's great big belly, "Oh that's, that don't worry about that, that's just the time inversion cone, it's gonna go back to normal as soon as time reverses itself and as for your white hair, that'll go back too, don't you worry, dear old me, you were my MY DOC, yes, indeed, my doc, oh the others, all old and old and unfunny and running around but you, you had plans, didn't you!?"
It would so SUCK! Tom's correct in not wanting to do it. Now if he wrote it, I don't care really what they do! The man's crazy but he's brilliant
Viewers will see the Time Lords regenerating and emerging one by one from the TARDIS, each with their own quirky opening line.---yay! what would you do to have 5 minutes fame?