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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Doctor actor is youngest ever
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Doctor actor is youngest ever
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 ...
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bbc.co.uk — The BBC today announced that Matt Smith has been cast in the role of the Doctor in the iconic BBC series Doctor Who. Smith will be the eleventh Time Lord and will take over from David Tennant who leaves the show at the end of 2009. He will be seen in ... (more) Doctor Who
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Who on earth is Matt Smith?
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Who on earth is Matt Smith?
news.bbc.co.uk — Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take on the role of TV's most famous time traveller. He may be the youngest actor to play the Doctor, but Smith has already built up an impressive CV on stage and the small screen. His biggest television ... (more) BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Who on earth is Matt Smith?
Matt Smith is the new Doctor
Matt Smith is the new Doctor
bbc.co.uk — The BBC today announced that Matt Smith has been cast in the role of the Doctor in the iconic BBC series Doctor Who. (more) Matt Smith is the new Doctor
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Doctor Who Regenerates Into Some Dude We Never Heard Of (News)
RevolutionSF — The BBC announced that Matt Smith is the new Doctor on Doctor Who . Who had "Some dude who looks like Morpheus from Neil Gaiman's Sandman" in the office pool? David Tennant, the one with the crazy eyes, will do specials in 2010, before getting re-actorized. The new guy starts in 2011. But only if he makes it through the "spank machine" hazing from the previous Doctors. Discuss your fear of the new guy on the ...

BBC Names Newest (and Youngest) Doctor Who
SF Signal — BBC has named Matt Smith as the newest (and youngest) Doctor Who: 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. ... He said: "I feel proud and honoured to have been given this opportunity to join a team of people that has worked so tirelessly to make the show so thrilling. "David Tennant has made the role his own, brilliantly, with grace, talent and persistent dedication. I hope to learn from the standards set by him. ...

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News
Kopic's Doctor Who and Torchwood Newsletter — ... Matt Smith is the Eleventh Doctor -- and he's someone that wasn't on my radar at all. I'm surprised. And a bit disturbed, because I was alright seeing the Doctor being played by someone my age... but now the Doctor will be younger than just about everyone I know that isn't a kid.... ...

Matt Smith is the Eleventh Doctor Who
SciFiCool.com | No Anal Probing Involved — ... Tennant as the new Doctor Who in the ongoing TV show. The eleventh version Doctor, I’m told. The actor’s name is Matt Smith, a 26-year old actor who has been in the BBC1’s The Ruby in the Smoke and BBC2’s Party Animals. Apparently casting a mostly unknown actor is not a stretch for the BBC, as the previous doctor, Tennant, had only been in one show before he, too, was plucked out of obscurity to take over the controls of the TARDIS. Here’s more about the casting and Smith from the BBC : Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who ...

Kopic's Doctor Who & Torchwood News
Kopic's Doctor Who and Torchwood Newsletter — ... Matt Smith is the Eleventh Doctor -- and he's someone that wasn't on my radar at all. I'm surprised. And a bit disturbed, because I was alright seeing the Doctor being played by someone my age... but now the Doctor will be younger than just about everyone I know that isn't a kid.... ...

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