Ladies and gentlemen and non gender-specific lifeforms, please put your psuedopods together for Matt Smith, the youngest-ever actor chosen to play the role of Doctor Who. More details about Smith here and here. And you know what? I think he's going to be great. He's certainly got that eccentric, otherworldly charisma that all the best Doctors have shared...
Piers Wenger, head of drama at BBC Wales, said that as soon as he had seen Smith's audition he "knew he was the one".
"It was abundantly clear that he had that 'Doctor-ness' about him," he said. "You are either the Doctor or you are not. It's just the beginning of the journey for Matt.
"With Steven Moffat's scripts and the expertise of the production team in Cardiff behind him, there is no one more perfect to be taking the Tardis to exciting new futures when the series returns in 2010."
David Tennant, of course, still has four specials to go, shooting on which starts shortly. Then, in 2010, we'll get to see Smith make his debut as our favourite Time Lord. It's a fair while to wait - anyone got a time machine I can borrow?
Of course, in the interim, you can catch a couple of Smith's appearances in such shows as Party Animals (currently screening on the ABC) - but one of my favourite appearances so far is in a deleted scene from the fantastically black comedy In Bruges, in which Smith plays a younger version of Ralph Fiennes' character Harry Waters. Interested? You can watch it here....
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I've not been a viewer of Dr Who but I am enjoying watching Smith in Party Animals currently screening on ABC1 on Tuesday nights.
On a different (but related?) topic, have a look at David (Trouble with Tribbles) Gerrold's previously unfilmed gay Star Trek episode:
http://io9.com/5113745/long+suppressed-gay-star-trek-episode-comes-out
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