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David Tennant in Extras

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To Australian viewers:
Found out in the December Optus Magazine that UKTV will be showing the Extras Christmas Special on Christmas night at 9:30pm and it features David Tennant. David Tennant appears as himself which means that Doctor Who references are unavoidable in that show.
 
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David Tennant appears briefly here playing the Doctor as Andy Millman (Ricky Gervaise) got a part in Doctor Who playing a sluglike alien.

Andy Millman did not make for a convincing alien as his human face can be seen in his costume.

Peter Nolan is another person who was not impressed by this as he wrote in DWM's Facebook wall and published in issue 392 that the Extras episode fell through a time tunnel from 1985. He then wrote that it had rubbishy, unconvincing monsters and has-been celebrities getting roles (in Doctor Who) as the last gasp of their career.

I certainly do not appreciate Doctor Who being treated as something to do out of desperation and not enthusiasm.

Despite David Tennant's presence this scene from Extras is really a reflection of what Doctor Who once was and not what it is today.

Interestingly Peter Nolan's letter is in the same issue in which editor Tom Spilsbury wrote in his editorial complaining about the "cult" label being used to describe Doctor Who.

Absolutely mind-boggling why there are some people who still have old fashion negative views of Doctor Who despite being a current show.

Another example is a remark I read somewhere else some months ago in which someone said that season 34 ended recently and nobody talks about a show that ended 20 years ago. Quite a contradictory statement, how can Doctor Who be both a defunct and current show at the same time especially since this person did not make a distinction between classic and current Who in his remark.
 
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