BBC says yes. Bye bye Jackie and the Powell Estate. Not before time.
I'm reminded once again of Antony Sher's "Year of the King," in which he describes his initial approach to playing Richard III in the shadow of Olivier, how he resolved firmly not to do any of the things Olivier had done (not to make him funny, not to make him sexy, etc) and found himself gradually incorporating more and more of those elements into his own, still very different, performance. Doctor Who must have a huge inertial mass: it does rather seem to be swinging back to its own norm in certain respects. Which, to me, is no bad thing.
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Date: 2006-06-18 12:06 am (UTC)I'm reminded once again of Antony Sher's "Year of the King," in which he describes his initial approach to playing Richard III in the shadow of Olivier, how he resolved firmly not to do any of the things Olivier had done (not to make him funny, not to make him sexy, etc) and found himself gradually incorporating more and more of those elements into his own, still very different, performance. Doctor Who must have a huge inertial mass: it does rather seem to be swinging back to its own norm in certain respects. Which, to me, is no bad thing.