August 6th, 2012
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Richard E Grant Cast In Christmas Special
Casting news – Richard E Grant In Christmas Special
Filming of 2012’s Doctor Who Christmas episode starts this week with two big film and television stars joining the show.
Richard E Grant, actor, author and director, has starred in over 80 film and television hits including Withnail And I, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jack & Sarah, Gosford Park and The Iron Lady.
He is no stranger to Doctor Who – Richard E Grant has played “The Doctor” twice, once in the Curse of Fatal Death and as the Ninth Doctor in animated webcast Scream of the Shalka.
On joining the show, Richard says: “I played Doctor Who in the digital animated Scream Of The Shalka and I’m honoured to be in the Christmas Special.”
Tom Ward, who has starred in BBC One’s in Silent Witness as Harry Cunningham since 2002 also joins the Doctor, played by Matt Smith, and his new companion played by Jenna-Louise Coleman.
It is written by Steven Moffat and directed by Saul Metzstein. It will be shot in Cardiff at BBC Wales’ studios.
Doctor Who is coming soon to BBC One and the Christmas Special will be followed by a further eight episodes next year.
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Jason doctorwhoone
August 7th, 2012 - 7:28amOh I give up 🙁
Harold Saxon
August 7th, 2012 - 12:23amno one knows if he will play the master,bit it sounds like a nice idea!
the astronaut of death
August 6th, 2012 - 9:06pmha may still be alive
and it is doctor who anything can happen
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 7:28pmThe Master IS DEAD, and it don’t flaming well matter what Era of Doctor Who, same show, don’t make a bit of difference what flaming Era.
Jonathan
August 6th, 2012 - 7:18pmI really wanted Joanne Lumley as Romana
Give me a Dalek any day
August 6th, 2012 - 5:52pmBOOBOO JR (the fake one), have you not seen the new Series 7 trailer? Almost all of what was said in the plot is shown in the trailer.
The 13th Doctor
August 6th, 2012 - 2:13pmi should love it was the master
gabrielwho
August 6th, 2012 - 1:46pmThe plot for ‘Dinosaurs on A Spaceship’ from wikipedia
When in Egypt with Queen Nefertiti, the Doctor receives a call about a spaceship which will crash into Earth in six hours. Taking Nefertiti with him, he picks up an Edwardian explorer and his companions Amy and Rory ten months after he last saw them, accidently taking Rory’s father Brian on the TARDIS as well. They land on the spaceship and come face-to-face with ankylosaurus dinosaurs.
gordon
August 6th, 2012 - 11:27amI think he is more cult than iconic to be honest. For those that have no idea who he is watch withnail and i. Great perforance alongside paul mcgann (8th doctor)
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
August 6th, 2012 - 11:23aminteresting… but i am not really that bothered about it. no idea who tom hard is. anticlimax
the astronaut of death
August 6th, 2012 - 9:57amthe master is not dead
he just returned to the great time war
that dose not meen he is dead
doctor who 19
August 6th, 2012 - 9:54amwho i am so disapointed i have never herd of him and why do they need him becase doctor who is already big
Tardis’nt
August 6th, 2012 - 9:35amhe could come back as a previous incarnation as the first master we saw was his 13th self. plus i don not think that john sinmm’s master is dead, not yet…
the master
August 6th, 2012 - 9:11amthey could also turn it around,it could be that the master brainwashed rassilon in the time war and rassilon was then bad and created drums for the master,so then they could come back and when they did the master would trick the doctor pretending rassilon did it,when his true plan was to return to gallifrey and become president taking over rassilon or killing him someway.some may agree,some may disagree
the master
August 6th, 2012 - 8:56ami was meant to say best friend and archenemy
the master
August 6th, 2012 - 8:45amnot everything is true plus they can bring him back before the time war happened and why would you kill the best villian on the show and make him a hero and not bringing him back would ruin everything,why would you make the main villian in the show a hero,he may have been angry at the time because he was mad,but he may return and be the proper roger delgado look alike master,which would be awesome .the master is never dead.he will return he will return he will return,he will return
Ryan
August 6th, 2012 - 8:43amLoved him in Scream of the Shalka, the Doctor that never was, would be nice to have an in-joke to that in the special, just for the fans… 🙂
the master
August 6th, 2012 - 8:40amand that invention was made by russel t davies.it was not in the old series at all.so maybe there are 2 masters and how do we know it was the real rassilon.it could have been another one and in the old series rassilon did not brainwash the master.it’s only since the time war it’s happened.plus time was rewritten in the big bang.i may not be correct about it.but how do we know it was rassilon.it most likely is.but what if that rassilon was the master and he created a fake master in derek jacobi,john simm and the master was on gallifrey and pretended to be rassilon and brainwashed the doctor to believing he was rassilon.when in fact he was the master and he created a clone with regenration pretending to be the master when in fact it is someone else.it’s just a guesss.but surely the best doctor who villian can’t all of a sudden become a hero.it would ruin everything that the old writers did and it is not right to do that.long live the master as he returns and you will all obey him
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 8:36amNO he is dead, END OF.
the master
August 6th, 2012 - 8:32amnope the master is the doctor’s arch enemy and still is that was r t d era.steven moffat may want to bring him back as a villianand i want the master back as a villian.he was a villian for a long time.there not going to make him good all of a sudden.just because he was brainwashed by rassilon does not mean he still can’t be a villian and i like the master very much and the master becoming a hero would ruin the show and he has to come back for the 50th anniversary as a villian.because he is the best villian.if he does i hope he will look like roger delgado a proper doctor who villian look.not a mad prime minster who eats people.i hope he comes back
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 8:29amHall – Don’t care, can’t stand him 😛
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 8:28amDoctor Who – that’s why I said ‘Kinda’.
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 8:27amSadly no, but Patrick is a fan of Doctor Who and has wanted to play a role in the series. He should get in touch with Steven Moffat and ask him for a part in an upcoming episode.
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 8:26amHa Ha 😀
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 8:25amGuys, it says that in the the description 😛
Jason doctorwhoone
August 6th, 2012 - 8:23amThe Master IS DEAD, god how many times I’m I gonna keep saying that on this website ? !!!!.
The Master knows why he became evil all cos of Rassilon, he made the Master a victim of the madness in his mind, turning an innocent child into a power hungry murdering maniac, but once the Master realized what had happened to him all those years ago, he turned good in the end, saving the life of his old friend, the Earth, and the rest of the universe from Rassilon and the evil of the Time Lord as they became during the Time War, and dying with his people.
The Master is a HERO now, and he DIED a HERO, just let him rest in piece.
Dr who
August 6th, 2012 - 7:41amI hope he’s playing the master or another evil time lord maybe or may not
Hall
August 6th, 2012 - 6:20am@Jason doctorwhoone Star Trek is lucky to have him, and he won’t be in Doctor Who, everyone knows by now that it’s very unlikely for him to do a regular or a supporting role in a TV show now, and yes he’s a brilliant actor. Feel very sorry for you (actually I don’t. :p), because he’s going to be in lots of great things from now on.
Boodleoo
August 6th, 2012 - 12:37amDo we knoe who/what he will play yet?
Doctor Stu
August 6th, 2012 - 12:19amSorry typed my name in wrong