{"id":134380,"date":"2017-08-22T07:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/bradley-walsh-tapped-to-be-the-next-doctors-companion.html"},"modified":"2017-08-22T17:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T23:30:54","slug":"bradley-walsh-tapped-to-be-the-next-doctors-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/bradley-walsh-tapped-to-be-the-next-doctors-companion.html","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Walsh tapped to be the next Doctor’s Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not surprising that, given the First-Ever Female Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), her Companion would be cast with a male actor. Reading the early morning news from the UK, there seems to be a fair amount of panic in the streets over this one, as Walsh seems most known for his roles<\/a> in the soap Coronation Street<\/i> and for his work as a footballer and comedian in the past and as a game show host and singer more recently.<\/p>\n

Me, I know him mostly from his work on Law & Order UK,<\/i> which Chris Chibnall (the new Who<\/i> showrunner) was the lead writer for, and he did an excellent job in the Jerry Orbach analog role. He can do drama and take things seriously as needed (and I do hope that’s more the approach they take). (Actually, knowing Chibnall did L&OUK also adds further confidence in the next era for the Doctor.)<\/p>\n


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\nBradley Walsh ‘to be Doctor Who’s next companion’<\/a><\/span>
\nBradley Walsh, the former Coronation Street star and quiz-show host, will reportedly be Doctor Who’s new companion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It’s not surprising that, given the First-Ever Female Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), her Companion would be cast with a male actor. Reading the early morning news from the UK, there seems to be a fair amount of panic in the streets over this one, as Walsh seems most known for his roles in the soap Coronation … Continue reading “Bradley Walsh tapped to be the next Doctor’s Companion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,43,75,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-media-performers","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/23\/doctor-who-fans-wont-have-steven-moffat-to-kick-around-any-more.html","url_meta":{"origin":134380,"position":0},"title":""Doctor Who" fans won't have Steven Moffat to kick around any more","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Jan-16 5:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, at least after 2017.So two bits of news here:1. 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