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It's a hoax, but it's a clever one: someone set up a Twitter account pretending to be one of the Nobel Economics prize winners the other day, gets 5,000 followers, then kills off Alan Greenspan in their second tweet. Kudos.

Jim McDonald (actor Charles Lawson) taken ill on stage so he was..... http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/coronation-street/news/a867976/coronation-street-charles-lawson-jim-mcdonald-ill-rebus-edinburgh/

Oh boy, am I going to catch it for this with so many who'ers on here...... nvm, fortune favours the brave... Or even a dedicated Dr Who thread that I can then put on ignore. Ducks.

One of the most attractive females to ever live miles better looking that marilyn monroe.

Only if by Arizona you mean Maryland.

Ducks? I think it would be your balls that need protecting...assuming that anybody actually gave a shit. Life is too short so lets celebrate the rich diversity of the forum or summat.

Why just Stevie Nicks what about the rest of Fleetwood Mac. The Cure and Kraftwerk should get in.

This hall ain't big enough for the both of us. NB. I have always detested this 'featuring' bullshit, now their HoF'ing it? Bollocks.

He can't die before his stint at the 02 next year I've got tickets

Currently being re-repeated. Was watching Episode 1 there, Leslie Schofield* as the husband. I thought "wow, Schofield in a leading role, he's usually bumped off in things early" when 20 mins in, he gets shot dead! *Same age as Jill, still going, heavy drinker iirc, maybe worth a deadpool punt in a year or two.

His blood clots and heart ailments will have to be dealt with in prison the next 28 years (less time for good behavior). Funny he didn’t have an episode at his sentencing hearing. No jury to impress I guess. SC

No pun intended.

FFS was this guy an Aries maybe I can open up Famous Aries thread and see this fucker too. All Male Review thread. Dead According to Wiki (surely he is). Dead of 2018. Name A Million Dead People. People I’ve Never Heard of Until they Died. People Who’s Obit Doesn’t Say how they Died.

When these actors started appearing I thought wtf - smacked of a bit of desperation, like they knew the episode wasn't good enough on it's own to make new people who had tuned in just to see a female Doctor stick with it. Based on Mrs GUN deciding after half an hour that she had had enough they were probably right. Be interesting to see how the viewing figures* compare next week. * Is TV all about viewing figures? No. Is Prime Time weekend TV all about viewing figures? Yes.

My story is more convoluted: as a kid I was a casual viewer with the ABC doing endless reruns of Tom Baker and then Peter Davison on Saturday afternoons [the Cushing films were occasionally aired, too]. Somehow I missed the Colin Baker era when it first aired but I saw quite a lot of McCoy and Ace and really quite liked that when I watched it on a casual basis. Later of course there was the TV film and, again, I enjoyed that for what it was and appreciated the higher standard of acting, cinematography and Tardis set. However, I didn't become a fan until I finally saw some Hartnell in my 20s and that really clicked with me, especially his historicals. He is still my favourite but Pertwee is closing in fast. I was also slow to like New Who. I thought the first three seasons were weak (with the occasionally good story) but things finally came together, IMHO, in the Catherine Tate season when it won me over and I have liked it ever since. *** Anyway, I have finally just seen Jodie's first episode. Yes, average but with potential. The plot wasn't stunning but I am grateful they didn't labour any feminist or transgender points too much. Good world-building around the description regeneration and it seems that the Doc really believes Susan is dead. Jodie was okay but lacked some gravitas to me. Sometimes it felt to me like she was just doing a female impersonation of previous New Who doctors instead of really living the part but it is early days. Bradley Walsh is unknown down here but he was just like a bloke I used to know about twenty years ago named Brian in looks, mannerisms, etc. The resemblance was uncanny. Speaking of which, I didn't know any of those actors for upcoming episodes featured in the end credits so that probably fell a bit flat from an Aussie marketing perspective, too. Interesting to see the Doc go to the funeral service in the church which may be the first positive reference to religion in the show since the Hartnell era. The death of *Grace* is interesting from a symbolic perspective and it is interesting to see how this will play out especially since the next episode is entitled the Ghost Monument so she might be back in some form later. The pacifism is still there with the Doc wanting to teleport the villain away and sharply rebuking the crane operator for kicking him over the edge. Overall, a subdued, workmanlike start but it did the job of introducing the new characters and making the audience care about them. Hopefully they can build on this. 6.5/10

He was the Doctor at the point I moved from being a viewer to a fan (yes about 12). In his best stories Kinda, Castrovalva, Frontios and Caves he portrays what I think of as his characteristics and old man trapped in a young man's body and very loyal and protective. There were some bad stories in that era but Davison does his best all the time.

"Eric Saward is a shit writer." who needs good writers when you have political correctness

He looks like shit, like he did before without the 'Flu diet' he has been on.... His face looks awfully long now and I cannot help but think that, with some fettling of his attire, he would be the spit of Postman Pat.

I like the old doctor who all this new stuff is rubbish not watching any more of it

Joseph Tydings, an Arizona Senator from 1965 to 1971, has died. He was 90. https://washington-informer.com/148012/former-sen-joseph-tydings-from-maryland-has-died-at-age-90/