Introducing... The Doctor

Last night (February 14, 2010), David Tennant's "Doctor" left us... morphing (is that the right word) into a NEW Doctor. It was almost heart breaking. LOL The 11th Doctor is played by a Matt Smith.

* After months of speculation, David Tennant, the actor cast as the Tenth Doctor in 2005, announced in October 2008 that he would be leaving the role as of the final gap year special scheduled for broadcast in early 2010. This precipitated several months of intense media speculation as to the identity of the actor to be chosen to play the Eleventh Doctor. English actor Matt Smith who, at 26, will become the youngest actor to date to play the Doctor (succeeding previous record-holder Peter Davison), was officially confirmed by the BBC as the new Doctor on 3rd January 2009. Mofatt had attempted to find an older actor to play the role, but he felt that Smith was the right man. [1]

* Smith was seen filming in Cardiff in October, it is thought that he is portraying an old and wise doctor with a young body. However, some leaked dialogue suggests that this younger looking Doctor will have trouble being taken seriously, to the point of his frustration. [source needed]

* His first companion Amy Pond will be played by Karen Gillan, who portrayed the Soothsayer in DW: The Fires of Pompeii. [2]

* The comic strip The Crimson Hand, being published in Doctor Who Magazine from issue 416 in December 2009, has been announced by DWM as the last strip to feature the Tenth Doctor. Presumably this means DWM will begin strips featuring the Eleventh Doctor in the early months of 2010 depending on how many issues the Crimson Hand arc covers. Similarly, the American comic book publisher, IDW Publishing, announced at the New York Comic Con in February 2009 that it will begin publishing original comic book adventures featuring the Eleventh Doctor as of issue 18 of Doctor Who Ongoing, scheduled for publication in December 2010.

* BBC Books has announced that the first novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor in the New Series Adventures line are scheduled for release in April 2010. That month will also see the first BBC Audio adventure for the Eleventh Doctor.

* During his debut scene, the Eleventh Doctor utters the phrase "Geronimo!" This is later repeated in a scene from a future episode in the official BBC trailer, making it likely that "Geronimo!" will be the new Doctor's equivalent to the Ninth Doctor's "Fantastic!" and the Tenth's "Allon-sy!"

* The BBC's initial trailer issued in January 2010 includes brief scenes showing future adventures. These include - though the context of these scenes remains at present unknown:

o Punching a man in the jaw, somewhat clumsily.
o Exchanging a kiss with Amy.
o Falling to the floor in a (non-romantic) embrace with River Song.
o Firing either a pistol or a flare gun.
o Standing in front of the TARDIS, talking to it ("Okay, what have you got for me this time?").
o Wearing sunglasses.
o Hitting a Dalek with its own plunger.

Tenth Doctor

The incumbent Tenth Doctor is portrayed by David Tennant, who was cast before the first season aired after Eccleston announced his intention to leave the show. Mal Young vacated his position as Executive Producer when he departed the BBC after Series 1 - he was not replaced in that capacity.

Series 2 (2006)

The back-story for the spin-off series Torchwood is "seeded" in various episodes in the 2006 series. Each episode also has an accompanying online TARDISODE.
172 "New Earth"
173 "Tooth and Claw"
174 "School Reunion"
175 "The Girl in the Fireplace"
176 "Rise of the Cybermen"
"The Age of Steel"
177 "The Idiot's Lantern"
178 "The Impossible Planet"
"The Satan Pit"
179 "Love & Monsters"
180 "Fear Her"
181 "Army of Ghosts"
"Doomsday"
182 "The Runaway Bride" 3.X 60-minute special Russell T Davies Euros Lyn 25 December 2006

Series 3 (2007)

This series deals with the Face of Boe's final message, the mysterious Mr Saxon, and the Doctor dealing with the loss of Rose Tyler.

183 "Smith and Jones"
184 "The Shakespeare Code"
185 "Gridlock"
186 "Daleks in Manhattan"
"Evolution of the Daleks"
187 "The Lazarus Experiment"
189 "Human Nature"
"The Family of Blood"
190 "Blink"
191 "Utopia"
"The Sound of Drums"
"Last of the Time Lords"
192 "Voyage of the Damned"

Series 4 (2008)

This series explores the coincidences binding the Doctor and Donna together.

193 "Partners in Crime"
194 "The Fires of Pompeii"
195 "Planet of the Ood"
196 "The Sontaran Stratagem"
"The Poison Sky"
197 "The Doctor's Daughter"
198 "The Unicorn and the Wasp"
199 "Silence in the Library"
"Forest of the Dead"
200 "Midnight"
201 "Turn Left"
202 "The Stolen Earth"
"Journey's End"

Following the conclusion of filming for the fourth series, the 2008 Christmas special was filmed,[7] and has finished production. A short trailer for the episode was shown after the closing credits of "Journey's End".

- "Music of the Spheres"[10] - special 27 July 2008 (BBC iPlayer and BBC Radio 3 (audio only))
203 2008 Christmas special - 60-minute special 25 December 2008

Following Tennant's late 2008 performance in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, four further one hour specials are to be shot in January 2009. One of these is scheduled to be shown at Easter 2009; another on Christmas Day.

Russell T. Davies will write two of the 2009 specials, and co-write the others; one with Gareth Roberts, the other with Phil Ford. Davies and Roberts previously co-wrote the Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Invasion of the Bane". Ford has previously written episodes of Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. This will be Ford's first Doctor Who script, making him one of few to have contributed to all three series.

Series 5 (2010)

The programme will return in 2010 with a fifth full series. For this fifth series, Russell T Davies will be replaced as head writer and executive producer by Steven Moffat.[16] Tennant, who has played the main character of the show for the past three series, stated on The Andrew Marr Show in June 2008 that he hasn't yet been asked to reprise the role for the fifth series, but he will consider it if asked, By July 2008, Russell T Davies said in The Guardian that Tennant had made his decision and the BBC knew what it was.

On 27 November 2007, it was confirmed that Billie would reprise her role as Rose Tyler in the fourth series for three episodes. Later, it was confirmed by Russell T Davies in Doctor Who Magazine that this return had been planned since she left.

It was also revealed in the 'Turn Left Doctor Who Confidential' that she had made arrangements to return as Rose since deciding to leave and had lied to journalists when she claimed that she would never return. The series began in April 2008, and after several cameos, Piper made her official return as Rose in the series four final episodes: Turn Left, Stolen Earth and The Journeys End.

She has not said whether she will be reprising the role again, although on Doctor Who Confidential she said that she thinks "It's never really the end for the Doctor and Rose" but it probably was "for the foreseeable future".