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Sad news for Doctor Who fans as the tenth doctor, David Tennant, has announced he will not be returning for another series as Doctor Who. David will be appearing in four one off specials to air next year, the first of which is expected to be on Christmas Day.
Tennant announced the news that most Doctor Who fans already knew, but didn’t really want to believe, as he collected his award for outstanding drama performance. An emotional David Tennant stated:
When Doctor Who returns in 2010 it won’t be with me.
Now don’t make me cry. I love this part, and I love this show so much that if I don’t take a deep breath and move on now I never will, and you’ll be wheeling me out of the Tardis in my bath chair.
I’ll miss it
Tennant added that he believed three years was the right time to play the Doctor, as he stepped in for Christopher Eccleston in 2005.
I think it’s better to go when there’s a chance that people might miss you, rather than to hang around and outstay your welcome.
That’s one of the reasons I think it’s right to take a deep breath and bow out when it’s still fun, when it’s a novelty.
I don’t ever want it to feel like a job, so I want to move on when it still feels exciting and fresh and that means I’ll miss it.
Producer Russell T Davies is planning a spectacular exit for Tennant, when the next, and eleventh Doctor, will take over the role.
It may be the tackiest show of the year with some of the worst musical performances ever heard, but Eurovision is an institution, and the UK does like to enter it regardless of how corrupt, pointless and devoid of taste it may be.
However, as the UK has faired so abysmally in recent times, with Andy Abrahams finishing joint last earlier this year, and Scooch fairing little better the year before, the time has come for drastic action. Drastic action indeed, as the dark lord is entering the fray, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Not only will the little composer guy be penning a track for Britain’s entry, he’ll be holding a BBC TV show hosted by Graham Norton to pick the entrant. The BBC know how to raise cash don’t they?
The dark lord said:
Win, lose or draw, I am looking forward to every minute of it.
In my life I have never shied away from the impossible and this looks like the biggest mission impossible of all time.
But with the might of the BBC and the British public behind me (not to mention Graham Norton) who knows what will happen?
The corrupt voting system whereby every former Soviet State votes for Russia, and vice versa, is to change next year and allow a panel of judges to also vote. This prompted the dark lord to wade in and enter.
X-Factor’s really in for a bashing this week. First Steve what’s his name said nobody should vote on it because it’s like human bear baiting, now Noel Gallagher has criticised it for having nothing to do with music.
Bit harsh perhaps, but he’s entitled to his opinion.
Noel went on to accuse Dannii Minogue of not knowing talent when she sees it, despite being the winning judge last year.
Gallagher said in an interview with the Radio Times:
If somebody is dangling this carrot of ‘fame and fortune’ in front of a check-out girl from Barnsley who can sing like Britney Spears then they’re going to go for it.
But it seems to bring on instant mental illness. You’re going in at the top, with a number one that sells 750,000 or whatever and you’ve got someone like Dannii Minogue telling you you’re really talented - and if there’s one person in the room who wouldn’t know talent if it kicked them in the a*** it’s Dannii Minogue.
You spend a year slogging around the country and then what? You can’t go back to Barnsley and be a check-out girl ‘cos that would look bad.
So you end up either trying to be an actress or trying to sustain your profile by going on celebrity shows.
Noel then went on to slag off the whole X-Factor celebrity structure, saying that even if someone wins they’ll end up with very little money for their efforts, unlike Simon Cowell of course, who nets a fortune every year from the show.
Instead of instant fame and celebrity and all your ex-boyfriends and girlfriends coming out of the cupboard and your family being ripped apart, the prize ought to be, ‘I’ll introduce you to someone who might introduce you to someone who might, if you’re very lucky, know a producer who’d record one of your songs’. That’s the only way to make any money. Otherwise you sell five million records and earn 50 grand.
The X Factor has absolutely nothing to do with music and everything to do with television.
There aren’t many of us who think the TV licence is worth the money, and we generally resent paying for it just so Bruce Forsyth has something to do on a Saturday afternoon. Excuses for not paying include “I haven’t got a TV”, “I Don’t watch the BBC” and “I only use it for watching DVDs”.
Eventually though we all have to pay the TV licence, as much as it hurts.
However, at least we’re not paying for the absolute trash that Channel 5, C4 and ITV output… but for how long? Ofcom are currently looking at new ways of funding the dross that these imbecilic channels produce now that TV advertising revenues are drying up. One such way is a tax for the UK public on anyone that owns an iPod, MP3 player, satellite dish, computer or Internet connection.
This means just about everyone then would be forced to pay for the production of crap like ‘Wife Swap’… they’ve gone too far this time. According to Ofcom, now that advertisers are moving to online options instead of ITV and the other junk TV channels, the channels will need massive levels of funding in order to keep making their crap. Amounts as high as £235 million have been bandied around!
Ed Richards, CEO of Ofcom states:
If we don’t start making tough choices we are going to end up with the BBC being the only provider of public service programmes.
Here’s a tough choice, let them all go bankrupt!
Who thinks that the nation’s national sport should be shown to the nation? It makes sense doesn’t it? Showing England’s World Cup Qualifiers on a channel that people in England can watch would seem like an obvious thing to happen, but when scarcely seen channel Setanta landed England’s away qualifiers, the nation mourned. Nobody watches, no one will see the games.
Fear not, because ITV have struck a deal with Setanta to screen the highlights of the away games, to go alongside their live coverage of the home games.
When England beat Croatia 4-1 away last week, screened on Setanta, just 1.5 million viewers watched the game. This is because the channel’s viewing audience is so low.
Less than 300,000 viewers bothered to watch the highlights of the game on Setanta, who had forked out a whopping £5 million for the rights. Setanta complained that no channel was willing to pay what they wanted for the rights to the highlights, meaning very few people in the country actually saw their team’s best performance away since the 5-1 mauling of Germany in 2001.
As a result, Gordon Brown waded in with his rather ample weight and has admitted that the nation not being able watch their own team was unfortunate.
How observant of him.
Now ITV have struck a deal with Setanta allowing them to show delayed highlights of the away games. Mark Sharman, the News and Sport director for ITV stated:
We’re pleased to have secured highlights of England’s crucial World Cup qualifiers for free-to-air television. We know there is huge demand from fans to watch their qualification journey and we’re delighted that every match will now be shown on ITV1.
It’s not rocket science is it!
The carefully choreographed and meticulously planned out comeback from former pop-princess Britney Spears is heading into overdrive, as she’s set to appear on X-Factor. Not to be told by Simon Cowell that she’s rubbish, no, instead she’ll be performing towards Christmas to plug her latest single, suitably titled ‘Womanizer’.
Britney’s already picked up three MTV video awards (proving that talent isn’t necessary to win, just a good publicist) so her comeback is well on track. It’s funny how she managed to ‘win’ those awards too, as her last live appearance was at the MTV video awards the year before, where she was, for want of a better word, awful. So what has she done in the last twelve months to warrant an award, let alone three?
Also, despite her recent problems by getting divorced, thrown into rehab, having her children taken off her and shaving her head (the worst of those crimes by far) she’s actually back to something resembling a looker; which can’t be bad.
Hopefully for the contestants of X-Factor, Britney’s presence doesn’t mean the contestants have to perform one of her songs that week. How bad would that be?
Fans of medical drama ER will be delighted to know that Goose (also known to some close personal friends as Anthony Edwards) will be returning to ER for a cameo appearance. His real name is of course Goose, and he was the navigator for Maverick in Top Gun. He will always be Goose, no matter how many identities he tries to take on.
Goose, who’s character Mark Greene was written out of the show in 2002 when he died of a brain tumour, is to return for some scenes in the upcoming 15th season of the show.
The fact that his character is dead would normally stop some TV shows from bringing a character back, but not the producers of ER. What devilishly clever technique are they going to use to bring back a dead character?
Why of course the medium of the flashback. There’s no flies on them there ER writers.
The news of Goose returning has sparked rumours that George Clooney will make a return for a guest appearance at some point in the new series, which must surely excite the ladies out there.
Billie Piper, everyone’s favourite prostitute, hasn’t made her mind up about returning for the next season of Doctor Who. As Billie’s “with child” at the moment, her priorities (rather selfishly we think) lay elsewhere. She’s having a baby with her new husband Laurence Fox (who isn’t ginger like her last husband).
When asked by the Radio Times about returning as Rose Tyler, the Doctor’s companion, she stated:
I haven’t thought about it… at some point you’ve just got to let go.
She also commented that when she’s filming Doctor Who, the children that come along to the set can sometimes be disturbing.
Sweet as they are, kids en masse are kind of frightening. Every child just thinks you’re Rose and you don’t want to spoil the illusion.
Hmm, hopefully she won’t think her own child is frightening when it’s born.
Her impending motherhood hasn’t stood in the way of staring in the second series of ‘Secret Diary of a Call Girl’ though, which we think is great news. Billie makes a very convincing hooker, and one we’re willing to stay up late for.
So David Duchovny has gone the way of so many other actors and has gone into rehab. However, instead of the usual drug or alcohol addiction, he has gone in for the slightly more interesting addiction of sex. According to Duchovny’s publicist, he has voluntarily gone into a rehabilitation center so that he can get help for a sex addiction that he currently has to deal with.
I think that the irony here is that he actually plays a writer who is obsessed with sex in his latest TV show - Californication. If you haven’t seen it, it is pretty much the opposite of the X-Files. No aliens, or conspiracies, just angst, sex and writers block.
Anyways, this is a bit more interesting, as David Duchovny said this in a statement that was released by his lawyer : “I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family.” Ouch, imagine finding out that your dad was once in rehab for a sex addiction, that would probably make your dad a very interesting person to talk to, but could also make the conversation quite awkward I think. Imagine the birds and the bees talk…
So after 25 years Carol Vorderman is leaving that university student staple - Countdown. The good news? Channel 4 is looking for someone to fill her shoes once she has gone - all they need is to be a maths wizz with charm and charisma - that’s me out then! If you reckon you could be the new Carol Vorderman, then get on over to the Channel 4 website, where you can apply. You don’t have to be female, just good at maths and have a high level of literacy.
The job doesn’t start until Jan 2009, but you should get you applications in as soon as possible.
Also, Des O’Connor is also leaving Countdown after over 500 shows. He will be leaving in November, but Channel 4 will not be looking at the general public for a new presenter. So you can’t be Des only Carol! However, they will announce who will be taking over from Des O’Connor later on this year.
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