Who will be the new Doctor?

arknor said:
i bet 90% of people barely watch the bbc compared to other channels but a lot of people think its worth it because of programs like east enders and topgear :rolleyes:
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Viewing figures say otherwise; in fact 86% of people with a TV watch at least 3 minutes of either BBC1 or BBC2 each week. Indeed the average person watches 7 hours of BBC1 and BBC2 each week.
 
Hxc said:
It's 12, not 11. As such there can be 13 doctors...
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And even that's far from set in stone, because the High council of Galifrey could give and take regenerations at will, as punishment or favour. With the doctor now being the 'last of the time lords', it opens up all manner of story ideas for doing away with the regeneration limit. The master had, after all, exceeded it already.
 
Not a fan of DR Who but I start watching if any of these people got the gig

Paul Gascoigne
Morrissey
Bill Bailey
Bob Dylan
Billy Connolly
Tony Hawks
Arthur Smith

edit - or Terry Wogan
 
fini said:
In particular you might want to brush up on Hunter v Canary Wharf in which it's pretty obvious that the idea of dealing with television signals as a chattel is too silly a one for anyone to even advance.
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Completely unrelated to this discussion.

fini said:
Would you like to decide which act you're seeking to rely upon? You can't rely upon SoGA if there are no goods involved, which I suspect is why you're now pretending you were referring to the unsolicited goods and services act all along...
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No I forgot the name. :rolleyes:

You do realise it's not the BBC that collects the license fee? You further realise that the license fee does not only go to the BBC? In addition you realise that the act only applies where you do not have a reasonable cause to believe there is a right to payment?
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Exactly my point about government corruption, class it as a tax so it falls into the catagory of right to payment.
 
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Energize said:
Completely unrelated to this discussion.
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Not unrelated at all. You said, quite clearly, that SoGA applies. For SoGA to apply it needs to be a good. You then tried to back that up by claiming incorrectly that a photon could be a good. I linked to the leading House of Lords case dealing with the issue of the television signals as property in which they are dealt with exclusively as a service - not a good - proof that SoGA does not apply.


Energize said:
No I forgot the name. :rolleyes:
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So you decided to use the name of another act that had nothing to do with it?


Exactly my point about government corruption, class it as a tax so it falls into the catagory of right to payment.
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It's not classed as a tax, thus why it's collected by a private company, Revenues Management Services Ltd, not the inland revenue.
 
MarcLister said:
I think it is 11 yes.
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Actually I read/heard that they could be "Granted" Extra lives/regenarations but maybe what ever this is to allow extra ones, could be stuck/broken so that he keeps on regenerating.

That or he's been through so many things something could have altered his body.
 
fini said:
So you decided to use the name of another act that had nothing to do with it?
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No I thought it was that act, when it was another.


It's not classed as a tax, thus why it's collected by a private company, Revenues Management Services Ltd, not the inland revenue.
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Since our last report there has been a significant change in the position of the
licence fee. In January 2006 the Office of National Statistics re-classified the
licence fee as a tax.
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The licence fee is now classified as a tax and we note that for the first time
the Government have started to use it as such. They are using it to cover
costs that should be covered by general taxation, in particular the costs of
providing targeted help with digital switchover. As we will discuss in the next
chapter, over 75s are currently given a free television licence funded from
general taxation as part of the Government’s social policy. By proposing to
fund targeted help with digital switchover through the licence fee, the
Government have introduced a type of “top-slicing” for the first time. This is
a profound change to the constitutional position of the BBC. By doing this
the Government can raise taxation without being seen to do so.
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http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200506/ldselect/ldbbc/128/128i.pdf
 
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this doctor and the other doctor that was generated from his hand switched places. technically, this would be his 2nd regeneration. think about it ;)


lol. i wouldnt be suprised if they used that story line :p
 
ChrisJSY said:
Actually I read/heard that they could be "Granted" Extra lives/regenarations but maybe what ever this is to allow extra ones, could be stuck/broken so that he keeps on regenerating.

That or he's been through so many things something could have altered his body.
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I'm sure Steven Moffatt, the new writer/producer, will have come up with a way of getting round this. Think someone mentioned earlier in the thread a way around the problem. Put it this way, Doctor Who is a big hit for the BBC, they won't just say, "Well chaps we've reached 11 regenerations now. Time to pack up". It is too important a show to let that limit stay so they'll find a sci-fi solution to the problem. :D

Xan_Molbjerg said:
Presumably Billie Piper from an alternate universe is the new doctor?
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There's a video of David Tennant on the BBC New site in the Entertainment section talking about the new "chap" and how his life is about to change. So unless Tennant and Piper are such good buddies that Tennant refers to her as a "chap" I think we can safely say its a "chap" doctor. ;)

Outside chance of it being John Barrowman? :p
 
MarcLister said:
There's a video of David Tennant on the BBC New site in the Entertainment section talking about the new "chap" and how his life is about to change. So unless Tennant and Piper are such good buddies that Tennant refers to her as a "chap" I think we can safely say its a "chap" doctor. ;)

Outside chance of it being John Barrowman? :p
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Shame, I'd have quite enjoyed the lesbian undertones of Billie Piper picking up a new companion. Oh well.
 
fini said:
It's classified as a tax purely for taxation purposes, it's status and function has not otherwise changed. It is collected by a private company, whilst criminal sanctions are available for non-payment they are different than those for non-payment of 'proper' tax and the money does not go directly to the government as with 'proper' tax.
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It's semantics, the government class it as a tax, and they treat it as such by the way they spend it, giving the bbc an expectation to have it paid to them which exempts them from being shut down like anyone else who tried to do the same thing would be. It is another example of corruption, when money is involved the government allow all sorts of illegal operations to run, like the illegal brothels that have been springing up.
 
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