Why the 8th Doctor?

There are Doctor Who websites everywhere: doctorwhonews.net, tardisnewsroom & kasterborous.com to name only a few. In all the websites on the World Wide Web, there are no websites devoted to the 8th Doctor. Sadly the Paul McGann Doctor has received little press mostly because he had only one TV appearance. But the 8th Doctor has lived on beyond the FOX movie. He has had adventures in a range of books and not to mention the Big Finish Audio Series (which this website counts as Doctor Who Cannon). The 8th Doctor is as much apart of series history as any of the other actors who played the part. So I ask: Why not the 8th Doctor.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

River Song to Encounter the 8th Doctor

Doctor Who’s River Song is set to make her triumphant return to the Whoniverse!!next year — but not with Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor. Instead, River (voiced by Alex Kingston) will cross paths with Paul McGann’s Eighth Time Lord in Big Finish’s radio drama Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 2 next February.

That means that she’ll meet up with her future hubby two incarnations before he meets her for the first time as the Tenth Doctor (played by David Tennant) in the Season 4 two-parter "Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead," which aired back in 2008. This could be problematic for Alex Kingston’s time-traveling archaeologist: She must help her beloved Time Lord without him finding out who she is, or even without him seeing her in the first place.

Producer David Richardson said: "The idea of River meeting previous Doctors was actually proposed by Steven Moffat, and it's just irresistible, isn't it? Alex embraced the idea of returning to the role, and so she will be starring in no less than two box sets next year. And yes, we are still pinching ourselves!" 

Along with Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 2, River will also return for a second four-hour Big Finish adventure in 2016, called The Diary of River Song. In it, River will once again join up with Paul McGann’s Doctor as she crosses all of time and space in order to seek the "secret rulers of the universe."

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