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Mmm he doesn't seem very pleased with Catherine. I hope he's ok with her.

I'd almost imagine him pulling a prank on her to get back at her. :D

Wait. Four specials? Does that mean another Xmas special AND three specials?

Like I said in

04nbod's entry, I wondered how long it would take for like, actual fact-checking to take place.

I'm sure he's grumbled mildly whilst on a night-shoot or at an early AM makeup session, but there's a big difference between the occasional bitchfest and saying he isn't coming back.

Now John Barrowman? He's got a very public case of foot-in-mouthitis.

That's what I'd heard - and this sounds like confirmation.

I'm thinking more like his mock-irritated voice we hear in the diaries. I'm sure he's annoyed, but he seems like a nice, laid-back sort of fellow.

Also, to be honest, without having seen the interview in question I don't have much of an idea as to her tone, or whether the segment was creatively edited to make it sound more definitive than was intended.

*nods* Just from having seen him on the behind-the-scenes stuff, he really doesn't seem like the type to now be after CT's blood or something.

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Sounds like it!

Like I said in 04nbod's entry, I wondered how long it would take for like, actual fact-checking to take place.

Well, as I said elsewhere, it seemed just so incredibly weird that the first we'd hear of him leaving would come from *CT*.

I'm sure he's grumbled mildly whilst on a night-shoot or at an early AM makeup session, but there's a big difference between the occasional bitchfest and saying he isn't coming back.

*nods*

I'm sure the producers will have a word with her and that will be that. Hopefully she's not in hot water with them.

Okay, poll time:

Which gaffe this week was worse - Catherine Tate claiming David was definitely leaving Who and probably before the specials, or John Barrowman whinging at a press junket about the hours and scheduling of Torchwood's season?

*snickers*

I didn't hear the JB thing. Was it bad?

I was excited that he said he wasn't planning to leave (hee, those quotes sound so COMPLETELY like DT in the quotes, that made it even more affirming, you know what I mean?) and all that, but also?

FOUR SPECIALS?????????? [breaks out the liquor and the party hats] I was really wondering if there was going to be a Christmas special next year and then three specials in 2009, or just the three specials. So so so so so happy to hear we'll get even more!

I was excited that he said he wasn't planning to leave (hee, those quotes sound so COMPLETELY like DT in the quotes, that made it even more affirming, you know what I mean?) and all that, but also?

Yeah, it makes me happy that he's got no plans to leave for right now. :)

FOUR SPECIALS?????????? [breaks out the liquor and the party hats] I was really wondering if there was going to be a Christmas special next year and then three specials in 2009, or just the three specials. So so so so so happy to hear we'll get even more!

That's what I was thinking - that the three included Christmas. But no! Yay!

Man, that's still going to be ages between specials though.

I didn't hear, I read about it (via

kammgirl, I believe). He bitched about the workload and the scheduling, and apparently was pretty specifically complaining about the BBC making it really hard to a) take time off and b) schedule other work around the show.

Dude, you're the lead on a show whose schedule you KNEW before you signed up for it. It's not the BBC's fault that you want to be on three dozen other things besides your main work commitment.

That seems to be the big thing over there - just how many different projects you can be involved in. Very different mentality from what I'm used to seeing with actors over here, who at least seem to work on one thing at a time. Generally.

Yeah, it makes me happy that he's got no plans to leave for right now. :)

The telling thing is that he says they haven't even asked him about beyond the specials. A bit odd-sounding (BBC, why haven't you nailed him down for, like, forever?!?) but still, nice to hear!

Man, that's still going to be ages between specials though.

Just think how much worse it'd be with no Christmas special--we'd go from June till sometime in 2009 with nothing! At least this way we have Christmas to look forward to.

Actors over here are also often paid great whopping buttloads more than the actors over there. I'm sure if John Barrowman were earning Friends money, for instance, he wouldn't be complaining so much.

I think they're afraid to get his back up over pressuring him, the way they pressured/embarrassed Christopher Eccleston. (Not TPTB but the BBC itself)

Having come into DW long after s1 aired, I've never really understood what in the hell happened with CE. If the Beeb really announced he was leaving as a way to pressure him into staying . . . well, that's the kind of psychology that's so reverse that you're back to the original point.

Any day now he'll schedule the press conference where he says he's staying forever! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.

I know nothing. *COUGH*

Apparently there may or may not have been some backstage pressure - again, from the Beeb, not from the showrunners, who were glad to have him for his one-year commitment - involving the BBC heavily hinting that a) they didn't know from the very outset he was only doing a year (which they totally knew), b) if they'd known he was only doing a year they mightn't have greenlighted the show in the first place and c) they'd just turn around and axe Who again if he didn't stay.

How much of this was true and how much was tabloid fodder is beyond me. It sounds like something I wouldn't put past American networks.

What the showrunners have mentioned is that they were originally looking at casting David as Nine, based on some intense stage work he'd just finished doing (the lead role in the original production of The Pillowman). The BBC didn't think he was an established enough quantity TV-wise, and were apparently hemming and hawing about the casting, when Christopher Eccleston up and contacted them, saying he'd love to stretch his wings and try a more lighthearted role than what he was publicly perceived as being capable of doing.

*ironic pause*

Who was very much a departure from the sort of work CE did before and has done since. He'd already worked with RTD and had a great deal of respect for his work. If the team had been anyone else, I don't know that CE would have been at all interested.

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Awwww!

*PATS YOU*

Seemed appropriate for my first paragraph. :D

CT is a bit gobby sometimes, isn't she? And she does like a bit of the limelight. Right now, she won't be getting that, what with Billie returning and all the Kylie-mania around.

Poor, poor David, run ragged by all these adoring girls!

Ahhh, my source for all things DW...

Guess I'm a little late for the discussion.

And probably loving every minute of it. ;)

It's really almost a non-event. CT shot her mouth off about something that wasn't true, and DT had to clarify. Eh.