The New Doctor Is Coming....

It's been a while coming but the BBC have announced that the new Doctor's identity will be revealled this Sunday after the Wimbledon Mens' Finals. I love the fact that this is a show where we get an announcement of an announcement. Few other shows do this. I've got new Doctor nerves. A sense of anticipation and fear that is likely to distract me from other duties this weekend. Am I going to like this Doctor or will I not? Knowing how long a Wimbledon final can go on, who knows how late it will be before the announcement? It might even go into the next day.

The trailer for the announcement was certainly interesting. It opens with a stone obelisk in the wild, a nice homage to the opening from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Obelisk is shown to contain a Tardis key and we cut to various signs and landmarks with the number '13' embedded into them. This sequence is punctuated by a weird little piece of synthesizer music that I quite liked.

The speculation was to the identity of the new Doctor will no doubt be ramping up. Somehow I get the feeling they won't be a woman, although I'm happy to be proved wrong. My fantasy casting for a female Doctor would be Eva Green. It's just a shame for us that she's too big a star for the show now. As for a male Doctor,sSomeone like Sacha Dhawan would be great for the role based on his appearance in the Tractate Middoth.  I wouldn't object to another young male Doctor but I hope he's a bit different from Tennant or Smith.People will undoubtably be scanning the betting sites for who it is. Chances are we may know a few hours before the actual announcement.

I have never before been so interested in knowing hte result of a tennis match.