Oh. Oh Dear...

[caddyman]

It might be as well if rumfuddle read no further.

I must admit, I did not see this one coming and I'm not sure how good an idea it is, but Catherine Tate is to reprise her role as Donna, the eponymous Runaway Bride from last year's Dr Who Christmas special for the whole of season four according to the Beeb. Freema Agyeman will appear in the second half of the season after guesting on a number of Torchwood episodes.

Criminey.

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[probablyscotty.livejournal.com]

And once again "popular" is confused with "good".

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think the phrase here is "AAARGH" followed by a probable reluctant decision not to watch much of that season. I found Tate's character utterly annoying and unsympathetic, which probably means I'm not down with the kids or something.

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

Poo

[jfs.livejournal.com]

There's a rumour amongst the costumiers that Liana knows at the National that not only was Tate lined up for the role, but that she'll largely be wearing Olympic-logo'd clothing for much of the show's run, to get the image into the public eye in a more acceptable fashion. After Rose Tyler mostly wore clothing from the Punkyfish line, she's said to have increased their sales by 170%.












Just kidding. I'm just enjoying the thought of Whovian blood vessels popping all around Britain at the moment. :-)

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Bugger.

I'm going to keep an open mind about this but I have some serious doubts about this. I liked last year's Christmas special but Catherine Tate's acting was far too similar to her comedy characters and the only real emoting and acting was done in the very final scenes which were convincing.

But the thought of 13 episodes of Donna's gob, ever present on screen, mouthing off at the Doctor et al....... oh dear me...

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

It's a TV programme right? it's not life threatening disease or end of the world stuff just a boring old TV programme - or did I miss something?

*runs away and hides, changes name, dons dark glasses and beard goes into witness protection scheme*

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I liked Tate, despite a really poor story.

I suspect season 4 is the Gallifrey thing. (I was right last year as well), I suspect salt-of-the-earth-Donna is there for that reason.

We shall see. Season 3 was good, and I suspect season 4 is RTD's last run anyway.

[nortysarah.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for you to tell me where you live so I can post you the colour in tardis I picked up for you :o) Answers please to sarahjdavidson at sky dot com

[phil99.livejournal.com]

Thing is, everyone said the same before bigmouth billy came along, and look how she worked out... we mustn't be too eager to criticise her before even stepping on set!