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New Doctor Who anounced by BBC

by mudricky | January 3, 2009 at 02:53 pm

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An unknown, up and coming actor has been named by the BBC as the new Doctor Who.

Matt Smith is to be the the eleventh Doctor of the TV series, replacing actor David Tennant who will record another four special episodes this year, before he put's away his sonic screw driver.

Smith, from Northampton, first TV debut was in the 2006 adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke.

This show also starred former Doctor Who companion Billie Piper.

Current doctor, Tennant said: "As I begin the end of my connection to all of this, I do feel a bit of jealousy of Matt who's just about to start and has got all of this ahead of him, and it's a very exciting journey to go on."

His first show should be broadcast on TV in October 2010.

Doctor Who? After months of febrile speculation the BBC tonight revealed the identity of the 11th Doctor. Not a prominent black actor, nor a woman, nor any of the high-profile names touted to play the iconic Time Lord.

Instead, the honour of wielding the sonic screwdriver and battling Daleks and Zygons has fallen to relative unknown Matt Smith – at 26 he is the youngest Doctor in the 45 years since the Tardis first landed at the BBC.

Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.

At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.

Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010.