Who’s Who?

By John Freeman on 2 January 2009

It has been going on in earnest since October when David Tennant announced that he would be standing down as the Tenth Doctor after the four Doctor Who specials in 2009 and speculation went into overdrive as to who would replace him. Indeed it was all part and parcel of the teaser for the 2008 Christmas special with David Morrissey as “The Next Doctor”.

It did look like 2009 would be a long year on the “Who is the new Who?” speculation front as the specials came and went before a potential regeneration at Christmas 2009. But, thankfully, it is not to be.

The Eleventh Doctor is due to be revealed during the broadcast of a special Doctor Who Confidential on BBC1 at 1735 on Saturday 3 January.

In 26 hours we will know who will be Who.

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.